screw
1. someone who guards prisoners
• Syn:
prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, turnkey
• Derivationally related forms:
gaol (for: gaoler), jail (for: jailor), jail (for: jailer)
• Hypernyms:
lawman, law officer, peace officer, keeper
2. a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
• Hypernyms:
inclined plane
3. a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
• Syn:
screw propeller
• Hypernyms:
propeller, propellor
• Part Holonyms:
ship, outboard motor, outboard
4. a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
• Hypernyms:
fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
• Hyponyms:
Allen screw, bolt, cap screw, machine screw, metal screw,
Phillips screw, setscrew, thumbscrew, woodscrew, worm
• Part Meronyms:
head, screw thread, thread
5. slang for sexual intercourse
• Syn:
fuck, fucking, screwing, ass, nooky,
nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup
• Derivationally related forms:
screw (for: screwing), fuck (for: fucking), fuck (for: fuck)
• Usage Domain:
obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word,
dirty word, cant, jargon, lingo, argot,
patois, vernacular
• Hypernyms:
sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus,
coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
1. turn like a screw
• Hypernyms:
revolve, go around, rotate
• Hyponyms:
screw up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. defeat someone through trickery or deceit
• Syn:
cheat, chouse, shaft, chicane, jockey
• Derivationally related forms:
chicanery (for: chicane), chicane (for: chicane), cheat (for: cheat), cheater (for: cheat)
• Hypernyms:
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. have sexual intercourse with
- This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
- Adam knew Eve
- Were you ever intimate with this man?
• Syn:
sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love,
sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate,
have intercourse, have it away, have it off, fuck, jazz, eff,
eff, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang,
get it on, bonk
• Derivationally related forms:
bed (for: bed), fucker (for: fuck), fucking (for: fuck), fuck (for: fuck), screwing, love (for: love), lover (for: love)
• Usage Domain:
archaism
• Hypernyms:
copulate, mate, pair, couple
• Hyponyms:
take, have, fornicate
• Verb Group:
neck, make out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: lie with)
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: hump)
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: fuck)
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Sam and Sue screw
- Sam cannot screw Sue
4. cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- drive in screws or bolts
• Syn:
drive in
• Hypernyms:
revolve, go around, rotate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
5. tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- Screw the bottle cap on
• Ant:
unscrew
• Hypernyms:
tighten, fasten
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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