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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;

    [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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