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Another word for screw

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Noun
      1. A spiral path or flight
      2. A spiral curve occurring in a single plane
      3. (Printing) A spiral binding.
      1. An Archimedean screw or similar apparatus
      2. The thread of a screw
      3. The spirally threaded shaft of a worm gear.
      1. A similar bar in a lock, moved by a key
      2. A threaded metal rod or pin for joining parts, having a head and usually used with a nut
      3. A metal bar or rod in the mechanism of a lock that is thrown or withdrawn by turning the key.
      1. A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.
      2. A rolling pin.
      3. (--- Nautical) A thole pin.
    See also:

    fastener

Verb
      1. To twist and turn
      2. To wind, coil, or wrap around something:
      3. To wind or coil about something:
      1. To expose to the wind or air, as for drying; air
      2. To coil the spring of (a mechanism) by turning a stem or cord, for example:
      3. To blow (a wind instrument).
      1. To twist, wrench, or bend out of proper or natural shape:
      2. To cause to deviate from what is normal, proper, or accurate:
      3. To twist or wrench out of its usual form into one that is grotesque; distort violently
    See also:

    turn

    twist

Idioms:

    have-a-screw-loose

    2. put the screws to

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Sentence Examples

  • Did I screw up somewhere along the line?

  • Basically, it started with a screw up.

  • A steel cylinder (about the thickness of a goose-quill), which forms the micrometer screw, has two threads cut upon it, one-half being cut with a thread double the pitch of the other.

  • The amount of this pressure is regulated by the screw z'.

  • And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, and again it turned uselessly in the same place.

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