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[Noun] | "screw" | \ ˈskrü \

1: a simple machine of the inclined plane type consisting of a spirally grooved solid cylinder and a correspondingly grooved hollow cylinder into which it fits

2: a nail-shaped or rod-shaped piece with a spiral groove and a slotted or recessed head designed to be inserted into material by rotating (as with a screwdriver) and used for fastening pieces of solid material together

3: a form that resembles a screw : spiral

Origin: 15th century ;

Middle English scrue, from Middle French escroe female screw, nut, from Medieval Latin scrofa, from Latin, sow;

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[Noun] | "screw eye"

1: a wood screw with a head in the form of a loop

Origin: 1787 ;

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[Noun] | "screw jack"

1: a screw-operated jack for lifting, exerting pressure, or adjusting position (as of a machine part)

Origin: 1719 ;

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[Noun] | "screw pine"

1: any of a genus (Pandanus of the family Pandanaceae, the screw-pine family) of tropical monocotyledonous Old World trees or shrubs with slender palmlike stems, often huge prop roots, and terminal crowns of swordlike leaves

Origin: 1789 ;

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[Noun] | "screw propeller"

1: propeller

Origin: 1835 ;

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[Noun] | "screw thread"

1: the projecting helical rib of a screw

2: one complete turn of a screw thread

Origin: circa 1812 ;

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[Noun] | "screw cap/top"

1: a cap/top that is attached and removed by turning it

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[Verb] | "screw"

1: to attach, fasten, or close by means of a screw

2: to unite or separate by means of a screw or a twisting motion

3: to press tightly in a device (such as a vise) operated by a screw

Origin: circa 1597 ;

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[Verb] | "screw around"

1: to waste time with unproductive activity : dally

2: to have sexual relations with someone outside of a marriage or steady relationship : be sexually promiscuous

Origin: 1935 ;

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[Verb] | "screw up"

1: to tighten, fasten, or lock by or as if by a screw

2: bungle, botch

3: to cause to act or function in an erratic or confused way : confound, disturb

Origin: 1625 ;

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[Verb] | "screw"

1: to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition;

* e.g., " ... screwed up his face at the taste of the medicine "

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2: to rob by the use of trickery or threats;

* e.g., " ... managed to screw his siblings out of their share of the inheritance "

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[Verb] | "screw around"

1: to be sexually unfaithful;

* e.g., " ... he hired a private detective because he thought his wife was screwing around "

Synonyms :
cheat,
philander,
step out

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[Verb] | "screw up"

1: to make a mistake;

* e.g., " ... we all screw up from time to time, so don't sweat it "

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2: to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way;

* e.g., " ... you've totally screwed up the spreadsheet "

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[Adjective] | "screwlike"

1: turning around an axis like the thread of a screw;

* e.g., " ... performed a screwlike dive into the pool "

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