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. |
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. |
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. |
Stem
(v. i.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem
(n.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem
(n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind |
Stem
(n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch |
Stem
(n.) The stock of a family |
Stem
(n.) A branch of a family. |
Stem
(n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel |
Stem
(n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position |
Stem
(n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk |
Stem
(n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. |
Stem
(n.) The entire central axis of a feather. |
Stem
(n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian. |
Stem
(n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note |
Stem
(n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection |
Stem
(v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from |
Stem
(v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole. |
Stem
(v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel |
Stem
(v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. |
Stem-clasping
(a.) Embracing the stem with its base |
Stem-winder
(n.) A stem-winding watch. |
Stem-winding
(a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem |
Universal
(a.) Of or pertaining to the universe |
Universal
(a.) Constituting or considered as a whole |
Universal
(a.) Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc. |
Universal
(a.) Forming the whole of a genus |
Universal
(n.) The whole |
Universal
(n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it. |
stem turn
stem | a turn made in skiing, the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it |
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 |
| Allen screw | a screw with a hexagonal hole in the head |
auger
gimlet
screw auger
wimble | hand tool for boring holes |
bow fore
prow
stem | front part of a vessel or aircraft, he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| shank stem | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something |
| stem | the tube of a tobacco pipe |
| stem-winder | a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem |
universal joint
universal | coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions, in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps |
wing nut
wing-nut
wing screw
butterfly nut
thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
| universal suffrage | suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country |
brainstem
brain-stem
brain stem | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus |
| stem cell | an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells) |
| hematopoeitic stem cell | blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow, T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells |
| universal | a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings, some form of religion seems to be a human universal |
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 |
| universal quantifier | a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts that the proposition is true for all members of a class of things |
bar code
Universal Product Code | code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser, printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information |
URL
uniform resource locator
universal resource locator | the address of a web page on the world wide web |
universal
universal proposition | (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class |
stem vowel
thematic vowel | a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection |
| universal linguistic universal | (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages |
| universal set | (mathematics) the set that contains all the elements or objects involved in the problem under consideration, all other sets are subsets of the universal set |
prison guard
jailer
jailor
gaoler
screw
turnkey | someone who guards prisoners |
universal agent
general agent | someone authorized to transact every kind of business for the principal |
| universal donor | a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types |
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 |
celtuce
stem lettuce
Lactuca sativa asparagina | lettuce valued especially for its edible stems |
screw augur
Spiranthes cernua | an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having tall erect densely flowered spiraling clusters of creamy white vanilla-scented flowers, widely distributed especially in low damp places of eastern and central North America |
bluestem
blue stem
Andropogon furcatus
Andropogon gerardii | tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States |
Pandanaceae
family Pandanaceae
screw-pine family | family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus |
pandanus
screw pine | any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves |
textile screw pine
lauhala
Pandanus tectorius | Polynesian screw pine |
| screw tree | a tree or shrub of the genus Helicteres |