Alum root () A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. |
Bed screw () A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. |
Bed screw () A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces. |
Breech screw () A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore. |
Chay root () The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. |
Choy root () See Chay root. |
Hindleys screw () A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form. |
Pack thread () See under 2d Pack. |
Root (v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. |
Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility |
Root (v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout |
Root (n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag. |
Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids. |
Root (n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc. |
Root (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support |
Root (n.) An ancestor or progenitor |
Root (n.) A primitive form of speech |
Root (n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about |
Root (n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity |
Root (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord |
Root (n.) The lowest place, position, or part. |
Root (n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations. |
Root (v. i.) To fix the root |
Root (v. i.) To be firmly fixed |
Root (v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth |
Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root |
Screw (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw |
Screw (n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something |
Screw (n.) Anything shaped or acting like a screw |
Screw (n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels |
Screw (n.) An extortioner |
Screw (n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity |
Screw (n.) A small packet of tobacco. |
Screw (n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. |
Screw (n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). 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. |
Screw (n.) An amphipod crustacean |
Screw (v. t.) To turn, as a screw |
Screw (v. t.) To force |
Screw (v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon |
Screw (v. t.) To twist |
Screw (v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student |
Screw (v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions |
Screw (v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion |
Screw-cutting (a.) Adapted for forming a screw by cutting |
Screw-driver (n.) A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw. |
Thread (n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length |
Thread (n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark |
Thread (n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut |
Thread (n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor |
Thread (n.) Fig.: Composition |
c fuck fucking screw screwing ass nooky nookie piece of ass piece of tail roll in the hay shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
threadfish thread-fish Alectis ciliaris | fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins |
Allen screw | a screw with a hexagonal hole in the head |
auger gimlet screw auger wimble | hand tool for boring holes |
cap screw | a threaded screw for machine parts, screws into a tapped hole |
corkscrew bottle screw | a bottle opener that pulls corks |
jackscrew screw jack | screw-operated jack |
lag screw lag bolt | a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench |
lisle lisle thread | a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton) |
machine screw | a screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole, slotted head can be driven by a screwdriver |
metal screw | screw made of metal |
patent log screw log taffrail log | a cigar-shaped log with rotary fins that measure the ship's speed |
Phillips screw | a screw with a special head having crossed slots |
root cellar cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
screw | a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head |
screw screw propeller | a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air |
screw | a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole |
screw eye | a woodscrew having its shank bent into a ring |
screw key | a wrench for turning a screw |
screw thread thread | the raised helical rib going around a screw |
screw wrench | adjustable wrench that has one jaw that can be adjusted by turning a screw |
thread yarn | a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving |
wing nut wing-nut wing screw butterfly nut thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
root tooth root | the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support |
root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
dorsal root dorsal horn | one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers |
ventral root ventral horn anterior root anterior horn | one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers |
train of thought thread | the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together, I couldn't follow his train of thought, he lost the thread of his argument |
eigenvalue eigenvalue of a matrix eigenvalue of a square matrix characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
etymon root | a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes |
root vegetable | any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers |
celeriac celery root | thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant |
chicory chicory root | root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee |
taro taro root cocoyam dasheen edda | tropical starchy tuberous root |
root beer float | an iceream soda made with ice cream floating in root beer |
root beer | carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs |
solution root | the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation |
beginning origin root rootage source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |
ribbon thread | any long object resembling a thin line, a mere ribbon of land, the lighted ribbon of traffic, from the air the road was a grey thread, a thread of smoke climbed upward |
ancestor ascendant ascendent antecedent root | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
prison guard jailer jailor gaoler screw turnkey | someone who guards prisoners |
spinner spinster thread maker | someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) |
blue cohosh blueberry root papooseroot papoose root squawroot squaw root Caulophyllum thalictrioides Caulophyllum thalictroides | tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally |
goldthread golden thread Coptis groenlandica Coptis trifolia groenlandica | low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers |
goldenseal golden seal yellow root turmeric root Hydrastis Canadensis | perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves |
screw bean screwbean tornillo screwbean mesquite Prosopis pubescens | shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods |
screw bean | spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed |
horseradish horseradish root | the root of the horseradish plant, it is grated or ground and used for seasoning |
crinkleroot crinkleoot crinkle root pepper root toothwort Cardamine diphylla Dentaria diphylla | North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots |