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Definition screw

Etymology

From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scr?fa (“female pig”) through a vulgar comparison. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scr?va ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.

Noun

screw (plural screws)

1. A device that has a helical function.
   1. A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
   2. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a shank partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
   3. (nautical) A ship's propeller.
   4. An Archimedes screw.
   5. A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
2. The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
3. (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
4. (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
5. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
6. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
7. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
8. (slang) Salary, wages.
9. (billiards) Backspin.
10. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
11. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
12. (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
13. An amphipod crustacean.

Verb

screw (third-person singular simple present screws, present participle screwing, simple past and past participle screwed)

1. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
2. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
3. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
4. (transitive) To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
5. (transitive) To contort.
6. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
7. (billiard, snooker, pool) To screw back.
8. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

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