Screw
A screw, or bolt, is a type of fastener characterized by a helical ridge, known as an external thread or just thread, wrapped around a cylinder. Some screw threads are designed to mate with a complementary thread, known as an internal thread, often in the form of a nut or an object that has the internal thread formed into it. Other screw threads are designed to cut a helical groove in a softer material as the screw is inserted. The most common uses of screws are to hold objects together and to position objects.
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... Name Built Length Tonnage Type Construction Status Allowrie 503 tons Twin-screw steamer Bega 1883 (Greenock, Scotland) 57.7m 567 tons Twin-screw steamer Iron Capsized and sunk off Tanja Beach, 5 April 1908, with the. 1914 (Balmain, Sydney) 39.62m 345 tons Screw steamer Wood Lost off Moruya River at Moruya Heads after hitting a sandspit, 25 March 1924, with at least one death ... Blackwall 1874 (Brisbane Water, New South Wales) 23.04m 66 ton Screw steamer Wood Wrecked after her anchor dragged on Shellharbour Reef, 20 July, 1876 ...
... A screw press is a type of machine press in which the ram is driven up and down by a screw ... The screw shaft can be driven by a handle or a wheel ... It works by using a coarse screw to convert the rotation of the handle or drive-wheel into a small downward movement of greater force ...
... A screw joint is a one-degree-of-freedom kinematic pair used in mechanisms ... Screw joints provide single-axis translation by utilizing the threads of the threaded rod to provide such translation ...
... Ironclads 8.1 Broadside Ironclads 8.2 Central Battery Ships 8.3 Barbette Ships 9 Screw Frigates 10 Screw Corvettes 11 Screw schooners 12 Paddle steamers 13 Battleships 14 Cruisers 15 ...
... studs, allthread) Threading Thread pitch gauge List of Screw Drives Syndesmotic screw Dowel ...
More definitions of "screw":
- (verb): Tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions.
Example: "Screw the bottle cap on"
- (verb): Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion.
Synonyms: drive in
- (verb): Have sexual intercourse with.
Synonyms: 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, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
- (noun): A fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head.
- (noun): A propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air.
Synonyms: screw propeller
- (verb): Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit.
Synonyms: cheat, chouse, shaft, chicane, jockey
- (noun): A simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole.
- (noun): Slang terms for sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: fuck, fucking, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup
- (noun): Someone who guards prisoners.
Synonyms: prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, turnkey
Famous quotes containing the word screw:
“Oh come home soon, I write to her.
Go screw yourself, is her answer.
Now what is that, for Christian word?
I hope she feeds on dried goose turd.”
—Robert Creeley (b. 1926)
“Let us have a good many maples and hickories and scarlet oaks, then, I say. Blaze away! Shall that dirty roll of bunting in the gun-house be all the colors a village can display? A village is not complete, unless it have these trees to mark the season in it. They are important, like the town clock. A village that has them not will not be found to work well. It has a screw loose, an essential part is wanting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
—Colley Cibber (1671–1757)