screw

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  1. noun A cylindrical rod incised with one or more helical or advancing spiral threads, as a lead screw or worm screw.
  2. noun The tapped collar or socket that receives this rod.
  3. noun A metal pin with incised threads and a broad slotted head that can be driven as a fastener by turning with a screwdriver, especially:
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  • This screw engages with a second and similar screw which is so arranged as to move the strip of vulcanite up or down. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • A screwdriver from an index finger was nothing, Phillips or flathead, I didn't care, although turning a screw was a bit more involved, since all of me had to turn. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 06 - June 1997
  • Little thought the naval experts of that period, that another fifty years or so would see both sails and wooden ships quite obsolete-- as far as the Navy was concerned at any rate These experiments showed clearly that the screw was absolutely essential to every warship, as in a calm, the finest sailing ship would be at the mercy of any small steamer, armed with long-range guns. —  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
  • The rigging was perfect, the boilers had been tested and the screw was an excellent one. —  Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
  • This applies to a blade of a propeller or air-screw which is nothing but a revolving surface set at angle of incidence, and which it is impossible to construct without a good deal of detrimental surface near the central boss 4. —  The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition
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bolt ·  pin ·  lever ·  valve ·  cylinder ·  rod ·  assembly ·  plug ·  wire ·  lock ·  motor ·  wheel

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screw:   screws ·  screwed

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  1. Middle English skrewe, from Old French escrove, female screw, nut, perhaps from Medieval Latin scrōfa, from Latin, sow; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also scrue; = Middle Dutch schroeve, Dutch schroef, scrūve, schrūve = Middle Low German schruve, Low German schruve, schruwe = Middle High German schrūbe, German schraube, German dial. schrauf, schraufen (cf. Russian shchurupŭ, from G.) = Icelandic skrūfa = Swedish skruf = Danish skrue, a screw (external screw); from OF.escroue, escroe, escro, French écrou, the hole in which a screw turns, an internal screw, a nut; prob. from Latin scrobis, rarely scrobs, a ditch, trench, grave, in Middle Latin used also of the holes or furrows made by rooting swine (cf. Latin scrofa, a sow): see scrobiculate, scrofula. The Teutonic forms are all derived (through the Low German) from the Old French, with change of sense, as in English, from ‘internal screw’ to ‘external screw.’ In defs. 5, 6, 7, etc., the noun is from the verb.
  2. Formerly also scrue; = Dutch schroeven = Middle Low German schruven = German schrauben = Icelandic skrūfa = Swedish skrufva = Danish skrue, screw; from the noun.
  3. from Middle English screwe, assibilated shrewe, modern English shrew: see shrew.
 

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