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. |
Coll
(v. t.) To embrace. |
Foul
(n.) A bird. |
Foul
(superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive |
Foul
(superl.) Scurrilous |
Foul
(superl.) Hateful |
Foul
(superl.) Loathsome |
Foul
(superl.) Ugly |
Foul
(superl.) Not favorable |
Foul
(superl.) Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc. |
Foul
(superl.) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement |
Fouled
(imp. & p. p.) of Foul |
Fouling
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foul |
Foul
(v. t.) To make filthy |
Foul
(v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. |
Foul
(v. t.) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing |
Foul
(v. t.) To entangle, so as to impede motion |
Foul
(v. i.) To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. |
Foul
(v. i.) To become entagled, as ropes |
Foul
(n.) An entanglement |
Foul
(n.) See Foul ball, under Foul, a. |
Foul-mouthed
(a.) Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane |
Foul-spoken
(a.) Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. |
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. |
Royally
(adv.) In a royal or kingly manner |
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 |
Screwed
(imp. & p. p.) of Screw |
Screwing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Screw |
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. |
Screwing
() a. & n. from Screw, v. t. |
Water screw
() A screw propeller. |
b blunder
blooper
bloomer
bungle
pratfall
foul-up
fuckup
flub
botch
boner
boo-boo d | an embarrassing mistake |
foul shot
free throw
penalty free throw
charity toss
charity throw
charity shot | an unhindered basketball shot from the foul line, given to penalize the other team for committing a foul |
| foul ball | (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field |
| foul play | unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence) |
| foul | an act that violates the rules of a sport |
| personal foul | a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football) |
technical foul
technical | (basketball) a foul that can be assessed on a player or a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct, does not usually involve physical contact during play |
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 |
| foul-weather gear | protective garment that is intended to keep the wearer dry and warm in bad weather |
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 |
| foul line | lines through st and rd base indicating the boundaries of a baseball field |
| foul line | a line across a bowling alley that a bowler must not cross |
| foul line | a line from which basketball players take penalty shots |
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 |
| things | any movable possession (especially articles of clothing), she packed her things and left |
| 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 |
| foul | become soiled and dirty |
| foul | make unclean, foul the water |
foul befoul
defile
maculate | spot, stain, or pollute, The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it |
pollute
foul contaminate | make impure, The industrial wastes polluted the lake |
cheat
chouse
shaft
screw
chicane
jockey | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
| foul | commit a foul, break the rules |
| foul | hit a foul ball |
| screw | tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions, Screw the bottle cap on |