Wring vs Screw - What's the difference?
wring | screw |
To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
* Bible, Judg. vi. 38
* Shakespeare
To obtain by force.
To hold tightly and press or twist.
* Francis Bacon
* Bible, Leviticus i. 15
To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.
To kill and animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.
* Shakespeare
To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
* Clarendon
* Addison
To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
* Whitgift
To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
* Shakespeare
* Hayward
(nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between wring and screw
is that wring is to writhe; to twist, as if in anguish while screw is to contort.As verbs the difference between wring and screw
is that wring is to squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out while screw is to connect or assemble pieces using a screw.As a noun screw is
a device that has a helical function.wring
English
Verb
- You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry.
- He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.
- Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
- The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.
- Some of the patients waiting in the dentist's office were wringing their hands nervously.
- He said he'd wring my neck if I told his girlfriend.
- He wrung my hand enthusiastically when he found out we were related.
- The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
- The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head
- 'Tis all men's office to speak patience / To those that wring under the load of sorrow.
- Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.
- Didst thou taste but half the griefs / That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.
- How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?
- To wring the widow from her 'customed right.
- The merchant adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.
- to wring a mast
References
* * English irregular verbs ----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.
- (Thackeray)
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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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