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. |
Extractor (n.) One who, or that which, extracts |
Extractor (n.) A forceps or instrument for extracting substances. |
Extractor (n.) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel. |
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. |
Hydro-extractor (n.) An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force |
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. |
-type (n.) A combining form signifying impressed form |
Type (n.) The mark or impression of something |
Type (n.) Form or character impressed |
Type (n.) A figure or representation of something to come |
Type (n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities |
Type (n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals |
Type (n.) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy |
Type (n.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. |
Type (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. |
Type (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively |
Type (v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand |
Type (v. t.) To furnish an expression or copy of |
Water screw () A screw propeller. |
Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. |
Woodbury-type (n.) A print from such a plate. |
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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 |
cartridge extractor cartridge remover extractor | a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector |
centrifuge extractor separator | an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension |
corkscrew bottle screw | a bottle opener that pulls corks |
extractor | an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components |
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 |
n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
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 |
p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
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 |
type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
wing nut wing-nut wing screw butterfly nut thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
body type somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
blood group blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A type A group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B type B group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB type AB group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O type O group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type Rh-negative blood Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing, what type of sculpture do you prefer? |
architectural style style of architecture type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
type specimen holotype | the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made |
type | all of the tokens of the same symbol, the word `element' contains five different types of character |
type | printed characters, small type is hard to read |
type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text |
roman roman type roman letters roman print | a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions |
type genus | (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed, it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described |
type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
type species | (biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs |
Alpine glacier Alpine type of glacier | a glacier that moves down from a high valley |
Piedmont glacier Piedmont type of glacier | a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska, large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice |