Screw vs Pin - What's the difference?
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A device that has a helical function.
# A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
# A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a shank 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.
# (lb) A ship's propeller.
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# An Archimedes screw.
# A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
(lb) A role.
# A prison guard.
# An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
# An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
To do with coitus.
# Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
#* 2001 , Bárbara Mujica, Frida: A Novel of Frida Kahlo , Overlook Press (2012), ISBN 9781468300994,
#* 2007 , Barry Calvert, Swingers 1 , Matador (2007), ISBN 9781905886647,
#* 2009 , Kimberly Kaye Terry, The Sweet Spot , Aphrodisia Books (2009), ISBN 9780758228765,
# A casual sexual partner.
#* 1944 , W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge , Vintage International (2003), ISBN 9780307785084,
#*:“If I don't go back to my boy friend he'll be as mad as hell. He's a sulky brute, but Christ, he's a good screw .”
#* 1990 , Susan Lewis, Stolen Beginnings , HarperPaperbacks (1992), ISBN 9780061004414,
#*:"Swear it!" Kathleen screamed. "Let her know that she's just another screw . Because, darling, that's all you are. So go on, tell her!"
#* 1993 , William Gill, Fortune's Child , HarperCollins Canada (1994), ISBN 9780061091551,
#* 2009 , Sam Moffie, The Book of Eli , Mill City Press (2009), ISBN 9781936107353,
(lb) Salary, wages.
* 1888 , (Rudyard Kipling),
(lb) Backspin.
(lb) A small packet of tobacco.
An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance.
(lb) 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.
An amphipod crustacean.
A prison guard.
To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
(transitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
(slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. Sometimes used in the form "screw over".
To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.
To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
* Jonathan Swift
To contort.
* Dryden
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter V
(soccer) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
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(billiard, snooker, pool) To screw back.
(US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
A small device, made (usually) of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
* Milton
A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
(in plural'' pins ; ''informal ) A leg.
(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
(chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.
(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
* Shakespeare
(dated) A mood, a state of being.
* Cowper
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
(medicine, obsolete) caligo
A thing of small value; a trifle.
* Spectator
A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
(often followed by a preposition such as'' to''' ''or'' ' on ) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
(chess, usually, in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
(wrestling) To pin down (someone).
To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
(computing, GUI) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
As a noun screw
is a device that has a helical function.As a verb screw
is to connect or assemble pieces using a screw.screw
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
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- “Not for God's sake, for Papá's sake. He's the one who gave Mami a good screw , and then you popped out. Or did you think you were a child of the Immaculate Conception, like the Baby Jesus?
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- A few couples would let selected doggers join in, with the lucky ones managing to get a screw .
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- As she sucked the nicotine deeply into her lungs, she closed her eyes and leaned back against the headboard, enjoying the pleasurable buzz that the combination of a good screw'—well, a decent ' screw —coupled with the nicotine gave.
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- She was just a girl, like any of the girls he had had so easily, just another screw .
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- Mary was Eli's favorite screw because she was clean, pretty, a good mother, funny, and alway was able to make herself available for their twice a week fucks as easily as he was.
- A certain amount of "screw " is as necessary for a man as for a billiard-ball.
- (Mayhew)
Synonyms
* (casual sexual partner) see also .Derived terms
* Archimedes screw * capstan screw * hex head screw * machine screw * screw anchor * screwdriver * screw thread, screw-thread * screw drive * self-tapping screw * set screw * sheet-metal screw * turnscrew * wood screwSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- Our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France.
- He screwed his face into a hardened smile.
- I had been calling Nobs in the meantime and was about to set out in search of him, fearing, to tell the truth, to do so lest I find him mangled and dead among the trees of the acacia grove, when he suddenly emerged from among the boles, his ears flattened, his tail between his legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except for minor bruises; but he was the most chastened dog I have ever seen.
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Synonyms
* (2) * fuck (taboo slang) (2, 3) * (Australia) root (2) * (British) shag (2)Antonyms
* unscrewDerived terms
* screw over * * screw in * screw it * screw up * screw with * screwball * screwtape, screwtaping * screwyAnagrams
* crewsReferences
pin
English
(wikipedia pin)Noun
(en noun)- With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.
- Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
- I'm not so good on my pins these days.
- The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins .
- The shot landed right on the pin .
- the very pin of his heart cleft
- a merry pin
- (Shakespeare)
- He did not care a pin for her.
Synonyms
* (small nail) nail, tack * (cylinder of wood or metal) peg * (games) skittle * (jewellery fastened with a pin) brooch * (accessory) badgeHyponyms
* (jewellery fastened with a pin) breastpin * (chess) absolute pin, relative pin, partial pinDerived terms
* belaying pin * breastpin * clothespin / clothes pin * drawing pin * gudgeon pin * on a pin * on pins and needles * pincushion * pinhead * pinhole * pin money * pinner * pinprick * pins and needles * pintle * pin-up, pinup * rolling pin * safety pinSee also
* needleVerb
- to pin a window to the Taskbar