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. |
Bramah press () A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic. |
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. |
Drill press () A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw. |
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. |
Press (n.) An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black. |
Press (n.) To force into service, particularly into naval service |
Press (n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy. |
Press (v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight |
Press (v.) To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of |
Press (v.) To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth |
Press (v.) To embrace closely |
Press (v.) To oppress |
Press (v.) To straiten |
Press (v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over |
Press (v.) To try to force (something upon some one) |
Press (v.) To drive with violence |
Press (v. i.) To exert pressure |
Press (v. i.) To move on with urging and crowding |
Press (v. i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity |
Press (n.) An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken |
Press (n.) Specifically, a printing press. |
Press (n.) The art or business of printing and publishing |
Press (n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles |
Press (n.) The act of pressing or thronging forward. |
Press (n.) Urgent demands of business or affairs |
Press (n.) A multitude of individuals crowded together |
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. |
Water screw () A screw propeller. |
press pressure pressing | the act of pressing, the exertion of pressure, he gave the button a press, he used pressure to stop the bleeding, at the pressing of a button |
bench press | a weightlift in which you lie on your back on a bench and press weights upward |
incline bench press | a bench press performed on an inclined bench |
press military press | a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead |
pushup press-up | an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms |
field press censorship | security review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces |
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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 |
bench press | a small punch press mounted on a workbench |
cap screw | a threaded screw for machine parts, screws into a tapped hole |
cheese press | a press for shaping cheese curd |
corkscrew bottle screw | a bottle opener that pulls corks |
drill press | a machine tool with a separate, upright stand, an electric drill is pressed into the work automatically or with a hand lever |
drop forge drop hammer drop press | device for making large forgings |
flatbed press cylinder press | a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type |
garlic press | a press for extracting juice from garlic |
hydraulic press | press in which a force applied by a piston to a small area is transmitted through water to another piston having a large area |
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 |
permanent press durable press | a fabric that has been chemically processed to resist wrinkles and hold its shape |
Phillips screw | a screw with a special head having crossed slots |
press mechanical press | any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids |
press printing press | a machine used for printing |
press | clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use |
press box | box reserved for reporters (as at a sports event) |
press gallery | an area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall) |
press of sail press of canvas | the greatest amount of sail that a ship can carry safely |
punch press | a power driven press used to shape metal parts |
rotary press | a printing press for printing from a revolving cylinder |
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 |
snap snap fastener press stud | a fastener used on clothing, fastens with a snapping sound, children can manage snaps better than buttons |
standing press | a large printing press that exerts pressure vertically |
trouser press pants presser | a home appliance in which trousers can be hung and the wrinkles pressed out |
wardrobe closet press | a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes, has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes |
wing nut wing-nut wing screw butterfly nut thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
freedom of the press | a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
gutter press | press that engages in sensational journalism (especially concerning the private lives of public figures) |
free press | a press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology |
press public press | the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines |
samizdat underground press | a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature |