Adjusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjust |
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. |
Idle (superl.) Of no account |
Idle (superl.) Not called into active service |
Idle (superl.) Not employed |
Idle (superl.) Given rest and ease |
Idle (superl.) Light-headed |
Idle (v. i.) To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business. |
Idle (v. t.) To spend in idleness |
Idle-headed (a.) Foolish |
Idle-headed (a.) Delirious |
Idle-pated (a.) Idle-headed |
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. |
Self-adjusting (a.) Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand |
Water screw () A screw propeller. |
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 |
cap screw | a threaded screw for machine parts, screws into a tapped hole |
corkscrew bottle screw | a bottle opener that pulls corks |
idle pulley idler pulley idle wheel | a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it |
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 |
wing nut wing-nut wing screw butterfly nut thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
wind malarkey malarky idle words jazz nothingness | empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk, that's a lot of wind, don't give me any of that jazz |
prate prattle idle talk blether chin music | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
prison guard jailer jailor gaoler screw turnkey | someone who guards prisoners |
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 |
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 |
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 |
nut-leaved screw tree Helicteres isora | East Indian shrub often cultivated for its hairy leaves and orangeed flowers |
adjusting entry | an accounting entry made at the end of an accounting period to allocate items between accounting periods |
idle | the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling, the car engine was running at idle |
screw up | twist into a strained configuration, screw up one's face |
heat up hot up screw up | make more intense, Emotions were screwed up |
cheat chouse shaft screw chicane jockey | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
screw | tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions, Screw the bottle cap on |
screw drive in | cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion, drive in screws or bolts |
screw | turn like a screw |
screw up | screw or turn higher |
sleep together roll in the hay love make out make love sleep with get laid have sex know do it be intimate have intercourse have it away have it off screw fuck jazz eff hump lie with bed have a go at it bang get it on bonk ff,uff | have sexual intercourse with, This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm, Adam knew Eve, Were you ever intimate with this man? |
idle tick over | run disconnected or idle, the engine is idling |
idle laze slug stagnate | be idle, exist in a changeless situation, The old man sat and stagnated on his porch, He slugged in bed all morning |
botch bodge bumble fumble botch up muff blow flub screw up ball up spoil muck up bungle fluff bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up bobble mishandle louse up foul up mess up fuck up eddbbba | make a mess of, destroy or ruin, I botched the dinner and we had to eat out, the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement |
idle unused | not in active use, the machinery sat idle during the strike, idle hands |
idle | not in action or at work, an idle laborer, idle drifters, the idle rich, an idle mind |
bone-idle bone-lazy | constitutionally lazy or idle |
idle jobless out of work | not having a job, idle carpenters, jobless transients, many people in the area were out of work |
dead idle | not yielding a return, dead capital, idle funds |
idle loose | lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility, idle talk, a loose tongue |