Look up: screw

1. screw
   (jargon) (MIT) A lose, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehaviour caused by a bug or misfeature. This use has become quite widespread outside MIT. [Jargon File] (1994-12-01)
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2. Screw
   [card game] Screw or Moonshine is a card game where the players try to be the first to lose all their cards. Like Palase, it is derived from the Danish (card game). == Rules == == Variations == ...
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3. Screw
   [simple machine] A screw is a mechanism that converts rotational motion to linear motion, and a torque (rotational force) to a linear force. It is one of the six classical simple machines. The most common form consists of a cylindrical shaft with helical grooves or ridges called threads arou...
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4. Screw
   [disambiguation] A screw is an externally threaded fastener. "Screw" may also refer to: ...
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5. Screw
   [magazine] Screw is a weekly pornographic magazine published in the United States aimed at heterosexual men. It was first published in 1968 by Al Goldstein and was printed weekly in tabloid form. Founder Al Goldstein has won a series of obscenity cases. Longtime singer-songwriter Barry Manil...
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6. screw
   [n] - a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole 2. [n] - a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air 3. [n] - a fastener with a tapered threaded shank a...
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7. Screw
   The mechanical feature inside the barrel that forces the resin out the nozzle
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8. Screw
   A helical projection of uniform section on the internal or external surface of cylinder or cone. See also: Bolt, Screw Thread, Thread, Wood Screws.
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9. Screw
   Round base with a forged head, the shank being threaded to its full length.
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10. Screw
    A headed threaded fastener that is designed to be used in conjunction with a pre formed internal thread or alternatively forming its own thread. Historically, it was a threaded fastener with the thread running up to the head of the fastener that has no plain shank. However this definition has largel...
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11. screw
    an external screw for the assembling of two parts; it is usually provided with a head. The thread of a screw fastener is either entirely cylindrical, or partially concial (self-tapping screw, wood screw) Category: Mechanical engineering • a long transmission screw whose function is to pr...
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12. Screw
    Screw (skru) noun [ Middle English scrue , Old French escroue , escroe , female screw, French écrou , Latin scrobis a ditch, trench, in Late Latin , the hole made by swine in rooting; confer Dutch schroef a sc...
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13. Screw
    Screw transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Screwed ; present participle & verbal noun Screwing .] 1. To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make fir...
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14. Screw
    Screw intransitive verb 1. To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting. Howitt. 2. To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.
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15. screw
    1. To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press. ... 2. To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws. 'But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.' (Shak) ... 3. Hence: T...
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16. screw
    noun a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
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17. screw
    noun a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
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18. screw
    verb cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion; `drive in screws or bolts`
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19. Screw
    • (v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination. • (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and t...
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20. screw
    in machine construction, a usually circular cylindrical member with a continuous helical rib, used either as a fastener or as a force and motion ... [5 related articles]
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21. SCREW
    A boat's propeller
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22. screw
    One of the traditional types of simple machine. Like levers, pulleys, and inclined planes, screws are used for raising large loads by the application of quite small efforts. As with al these machines, the distance the large load is raised is small compared with the distance through which the effort ...
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23. Screw
    A boat's propeller.
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24. Screw
    A rotating auger that uses a helical thread and a varying channel depth to convey, melt, mix, and pump resin. Consists of a feed section, transition zone, metering section and in some cased a mixing zone/zones.
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25. screw
    screw, simple machine consisting essentially of a solid cylinder, usually of metal, around which an inclined plane winds spirally, either clockwise or counterclockwise. It is used to fasten one object to another, to lift a heavy object, or to move an object by a precise amount. The ridge forming the...
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