(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 the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.
(n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.
(n.) Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.
(n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.
(n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
(n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
(n.) A small packet of tobacco.
(n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance.
(n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). 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.
(n.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.
(v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
(v. t.) To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.
(v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination.
(v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.
(v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total excision and immediate reconstruction were done with alloplastic material fixated with microplates and screws.
(2) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(3) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(4) The pedicle screw systems were always the most rigid.
(5) Closure is accomplished by suture of soft tissues and reattachment of the posterior trochanteric fragment with bone screws.
(6) Two of the 7 sets of iliosacral screws failed postoperatively (28%).
(7) An algorithm is implemented to determine the form and phase shift for inconsistent type II quadrupoles for any space group having glide or screw-axis translations which are not a consequence of lattice centering.
(8) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(9) Changes in radiostrontium clearance (SrC) and bone formation (tetracycline labeling) were observed in the femurs of skeletally mature dogs following the various operative steps involved in bone screw fixation.
(10) Several conventional internal fixation techniques and a three converging screw method were used.
(11) The criteria of failure of pedicular instrumentation or "death" of an implant were defined as 1) screw bending, 2) screw breakage, 3) infection, 4) loosening of implants, 5) any rod or plate hardware problems, or 6) removal of hardware due to a neurologic complication.
(12) Cadaver studies have been carried out and transpedicular screw position has been confirmed by computed tomography scan.
(13) In this study, we performed a series of in vitro tests to compare the breaking strength of plated bone analogues that used either unicortical or bicortical end screws.
(14) Successful treatment of scaphoid nonunions with screw fixation and cast-free after-treatment does not depend on the implant used but rather on careful case selection and precise surgical technique.
(15) The Herbert bone screw was initially developed for management of fractures of the carpal scaphoid.
(16) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(17) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(18) A variety of quality tests, of biomechanical screws, are used, before performing the operations, that flaws may be detected.
(19) Most fractures were fixed with interfragmentary screws and external fixators.
(20) To give variations in the peak flow-rate (from pulsatile to intermediate to non-pulsatile), three types of blood pump (piston-bellows, screw, and centrifugal) were applied to dogs.
Stuff
Definition:
(v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
(v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
(v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
(v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
(v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
(v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
(v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
(v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
(n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
(n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
(n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
(n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
(n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
(n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
(n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
(n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
(n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
(v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.
Example Sentences:
(1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(2) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(3) It’s good stuff.” Opening markets to US-made products overseas is one of the better things that could happen for US small business and their employees, said Obama.
(4) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
(5) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(6) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
(7) I don’t buy any of the horse race stuff,” Bush said Tuesday.
(8) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
(9) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
(10) He must have had PR training – didn’t it stretch to not saying stupid stuff?
(11) "A lot of this stuff we inherited and had to continue," a Downing Street source said.
(12) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
(13) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(14) He says he did write grown-up stuff – Joking Apart in the 90s and Coupling in the 00s, sitcoms that riffed on his own sexual history.
(15) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
(16) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
(17) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
(18) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(19) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
(20) If you pushed them on Hitler you got the most extraordinary stuff: "He was mah-vellous.