| 单词 | screw |
| 释义 | screw —screwable, adj. —screwer, n. —screwless, adj. —screwlike, adj. /skrooh/, n. 1. a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, esp. by means of a screwdriver. 2. a threaded cylindrical pin or rod with a head at one end, engaging a threaded hole and used either as a fastener or as a simple machine for applying power, as in a clamp, jack, etc. Cf. bolt1 (def. 3). 3. Brit. a tapped or threaded hole. 4. something having a spiral form. 5. See screw propeller. 6. Usually, screws. physical or mental coercion: The terrified debtor soon felt the gangster's screws. 7. a single turn of a screw. 8. a twist, turn, or twisting movement. 9. Chiefly Brit. a. a little salt, sugar, tobacco, etc., carried in a twist of paper. b. Slang. a mean, old, or worn-out horse; a horse from which one can obtain no further service. c. Slang. a friend or employer from whom one can obtain no more money. d. Slang. a miser. 10. Brit. Informal. salary; wages. 11. Slang. a prison guard. 12. Slang (vulgar). a. an act of coitus. b. a person viewed as a sexual partner. 13. have a screw loose, Slang. to be eccentric or neurotic; have crazy ideas: You must have a screw loose to keep so many cats. 14. put the screws on, to compel by exerting pressure on; use coercion on; force: They kept putting the screws on him for more money. v.t. 15. to fasten, tighten, force, press, stretch tight, etc., by or as if by means of a screw or device operated by a screw or helical threads. 16. to operate or adjust by a screw, as a press. 17. to attach with a screw or screws: to screw a bracket to a wall. 18. to insert, fasten, undo, or work (a screw, bolt, nut, bottle top with a helical thread, etc.) by turning. 19. to contort as by twisting; distort: Father screwed his face into a grimace of disgust. 20. to cause to become sufficiently strong or intense (usually fol. by up): I screwed up my courage to ask for a raise. 21. to coerce or threaten. 22. to extract or extort. 23. to force (a seller) to lower a price (often fol. by down). 24. Slang. to cheat or take advantage of (someone). 25. Slang (vulgar). to have coitus with. v.i. 26. to turn as or like a screw. 27. to be adapted for being connected, taken apart, opened, or closed by means of a screw or screws or parts with helical threads (usually fol. by on, together, or off): This top screws on easily. 28. to turn or move with a twisting or rotating motion. 29. to practice extortion. 30. Slang (vulgar). to have coitus. 31. screw around, Slang. a. to waste time in foolish or frivolous activity: If you'd stop screwing around we could get this job done. b. Vulgar. to engage in promiscuous sex. 32. screw off, Slang. a. to do nothing; loaf. b. to leave; go away. 33. screw up, Slang. a. to ruin through bungling or stupidity: Somehow the engineers screwed up the entire construction project. b. to make a botch of something; blunder. c. to make confused, anxious, or neurotic. [1375-1425; late ME scrwe, screw(e) (n.); cf. MF escro(ue) nut, MD schrûve, MHG schrûbe screw] Syn. 22. wring, wrest, force, exact, squeeze. |
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