English Dictionary

screw

IPA（発音記号）

/skɹuː/

名詞

軽蔑的 俗語 アメリカ英語 古風 卑語 複数形 くだけた表現 定冠詞付き 口語

A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.

日本語の意味

ねじ：螺旋状に彫られた溝を持つ機械部品で、物の締結や固定に使われる。 / 単純機械としてのねじ：螺旋状の傾斜面を利用し、力を伝達するための機構。

The carpenter used a long screw to join the two oak boards.

大工は2枚のオークの板をつなぐために長いねじを使った。

意味（1）

A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

(nautical) A ship's propeller.

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.

意味（4）

An Archimedes screw.

意味（5）

A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.

意味（6）

The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.

意味（7）

(slang, derogatory) A prison guard.

And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.

意味（8）

(slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.

This gentleman and the guard seemed to know Sir Pitt very well, and laughed at him a great deal. They both agreed in calling him an old screw; which means a very stingy, avaricious person.

意味（9）

(US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.

意味（10）

(vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.

Why can't I get just one screw? / Believe me, I'd know what to do / But something won't let me make love to you

意味（11）

(vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.

“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.”

意味（12）

(slang) Salary, wages.

“I’ll speak to Mrs. Dorman when she comes back, and see if I can’t come to terms with her,” I said. “Perhaps she wants a rise in her screw. It will be all right. Let’s walk up to the church.”

意味（13）

(billiards) Backspin.

意味（14）

(slang) A small packet of tobacco.

3 Screws and a Pipe

意味（15）

(dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.

[…] a gentleman of leisure, who enjoyed himself on a couple of spavined screws […]; both of them, as Stephen said, looked lonely without a gig behind them.

意味（16）

(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.

意味（17）

An amphipod crustacean.

the skeleton screw (Caprella)

意味（18）

(informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.

She didn't like my mother, so she made a wax doll and stuck thorns into its legs, and my mother had the screws (rheumatism) in her legs ever since.

意味（19）

(colloquial, derogatory) often used to express great displeasure with, it contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.

screws （ plural ）