Usually means: Fastener with helical ridges, threads.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. screw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. screw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. screw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. screw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. screw: Vocabulary.com
  6. screw: Wordnik
  7. screw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Screw: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. screw: Wiktionary
  10. screw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. screw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. screw: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. screw: Dictionary.com
  14. screw (n.), screw (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. screw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SCREW (magazine), Screw (band), Screw (card game), Screw (disambiguation), Screw (magazine), Screw (simple machine), Screw, (Let's Dance) The Screw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Screw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. screw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. screw: Rhymezone
  20. screw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. screw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SCREW: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. screw: MyWord.info
  24. screw: Free Dictionary
  25. screw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. screw: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. screw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. screw: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. screw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. screw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. screw: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Screw: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Screw: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. screw, screw, screw, screw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. screw: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Screw: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Screw: Bicycle Glossary
  2. Screw: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SCREW: Glossary on Terminology related to Nuts and Bolts
  3. screw: Master Mariner
  4. SCREW: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A device that has a helical function.
noun:  A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
noun:  A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
noun:  (nautical) A ship's propeller.
noun:  An Archimedes screw.
noun:  A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
noun:  The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
noun:  (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
noun:  (slang) Salary, wages.
noun:  (billiards) Backspin.
noun:  (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
noun:  (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
noun:  (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
noun:  An amphipod crustacean.
noun:  (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
verb:  (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
verb:  (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
verb:  (transitive) To contort.
verb:  (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
verb:  (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
verb:  (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
verb:  (intransitive, US, slang, often imperative, dated) To leave; to go away; to scram.
verb:  (colloquial, transitive, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
verb:  (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.

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