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Sentence Examples The front of the tail mount is attached the keel and the back is elevated, plus there is no screw key below the keel. Use a lag-screw system that includes a special key that can sink or retrieve the screw. If they're really bad, it is possible to glue and screw new wallboard over the existing walls or ceiling. Simply place the clip end into the kerf in your apron and screw the other end to your table top. The head of the tool fits in the screw head recess in the hinge to ensure the pilot hole will be centered. If you are unable to screw directly into the ceiling joists, the use of toggle bolts is permitted. The standard pin has a larger head complete with an Allen screw for locking in place. Open and unload the action, turn out the takedown screw about a turn and a half, and then slide the barrel from the receiver. He then applied a Jubilee Clip and progressively moved the worm screw around till he counteracted the vibration. The modern adjustable woodscrew chuck has the advantage of varying the length of fixing screw. The pozi woodscrew is a metal screw that tapers to a point so that it can be driven into wood with a screwdriver. The ground leading to it was steep windslab, too deep to find hard snow for a deadman, or ice for a screw. A typical Lancashire-pattern wing nut on the heavy screw tightens the blade. Everything, every single nut, bolt, screw, girder, steel cable, had to be lifted to those heights by helicopter, and winched down. Then you can simply screw the duplex receptacle onto the electrical box with the screws provided. Look at any fly rod and you will see that the screw winch fitting is at the very end of the rod. Beware your Little League baseball coach, kids, he may just screw up your life. I mean, jings, if you're going to screw up, at least admit responsibility for it. There's also an Allen screw tension adjustment to regulate how tightly the pistol is held. The pint-sized bottles with the green labels were called screw tops and were a powerful icon to me. Show More Sentences In the wake of such a grisly screw up, it is tempting to play the blame game. In all honesty she may be handling it better, in terms of not letting it affect her as a person or screw up her life. Occasionally, however, we need to flash sterilize an internal fixation screw set for an emergency open reduction with internal fixation of a fracture. We stock many different carabiners and screw links for all situations. There is little room for sympathy when chief executives screw up, particularly if shareholders, employees and customers are left holding the baby. In 1857 the screw engines for the steamship SS Great Eastern were built at the foundry. Most suitably equipped metalworking lathes can also be used to produce most solids of revolution, plane surfaces and screw threads or helices. Fully automatic mechanical lathes, employing cams and gear trains for controlled movement, are called screw machines. By 1940, automation via cams, such as in screw machines and automatic chuckers, had already been very well developed for decades. Maudslay's invention about 1800 of a metal lathe to cut metal enabled the manufacture of standard screw thread sizes. Standard screw thread sizes allowed interchangeable parts and the development of mass production. The saddle was driven by a screw through gearing which could be disengaged when the end of the cut was reached. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads. They used a horse driven screw press mechanism or a dropped weight to compress the hay. The Robertson-head screw has a square hole in the head, made in three different sizes, and must be driven with a special Robertson screwdriver. A few couples would let selected doggers join in, with the lucky ones managing to get a screw. She was just a girl, like any of the girls he had had so easily, just another screw. This mathematical problem is really difficult. Oh, screw it! I can't be bothered. Hold it in two hands and screw off the lid. Set the lid down. Inside are pickled onions. It takes the silversword twenty years to screw up the energy for its final floral pyrotechnic. Show More Sentences A guy Julian and you had a three-way with millions of years ago. I used to watch you guys screw through the keyhole sometimes. A toggle joint, which used a lever system to multiply power, replaced the screw mechanism for forcing down the impression-forming platen. Toggler screw anchors can be used in hollow walls or as anchors in solid wall materials. The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms. The study illustrates no cervical plate and screw fractures or screw back outs. The screw steamer Rattler beat the otherwise identical paddle steamer Alecto. The screw was very tight so we couldn't get the Allen key to work at first, which is when I got a hack saw and started to try to cut the hinge. By loosening an Allen screw, you can move the rear sight laterally in its dovetail. Savage has a big Allen screw on the back of its bolt that's easy enough to access. The device is a rotating cylindrical body that is screwed into the mold and can be set to any desired position by means of an Allen screw. We, however, lay drained and demoralised at its feet, with one remaining Allen screw boring a hole in our nerves. For secure storage, a tiny Allen screw in the top right of the frame can lock the safety in on-safe position. Side-to-side adjustments are made by loosening and re-locking a large Allen screw. Troubleshooting should begin with checking barrel-zone temperatures, melt temperatures, motor amperage, and screw rpm. Then I used angle brackets to screw the pelmet into the ceiling, with a length of curtain track behind it. In the course of the motion transformation, slender screw may be induced torsional, axial, and bending deformations and vibrations. I'm gonna build my own anime fan club,with blackjack and hookers.In fact forget the blackjack,and the hookers,a screw the whole thing. If I had a lil sister, she betta be scared to screw and be about gettin that paper. Although I agree with you that playing three colours is good, the point of Karl was that he wanted to avoid color screw. But with multis, and other mana sources, you can lessen the odds of a color screw. Show More Sentences A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her. In the 19th Century they pioneered the use of screw top cans for export to British India. It was the first ever seagoing screw collier and was built for John Bowes of Barnard Castle for shipping coal to London. The development of screw propulsion relied on the following technological innovations. In the UK the prefix RMS for Royal Mail Steamship overruled the screw configuration prefix. Also, I think that not enough shuffling in Magic tends to result in very poor hands, characterized by mana screw or mana flood. If you do anything about the mana screw problem, you increase the probability of a mana flood even further. The dolmens were vaults or safes of stone, with a narrow circular entrance that could be tapped with a round screw of stone. In the 1st century AD, Pliny the Elder reported the invention and subsequent general use of the new and more compact screw presses. The 1907 Otunui Paddleboat operated on the Whanganui River until the 1940s in her original form as a tunnel screw riverboat. The ship's chronometer, the screw propeller, the locomotive, bicycle, automobile, and airplane were all invented in the West. Simply screw off a bottle lid and then push the pourer into the bottle. If your bottle has a wide mouth, then you'll have to buy a wide pourer. The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. The idea that a machine can be decomposed into simple movable elements led Archimedes to define the lever, pulley and screw as simple machines. The screw is usually identified as its own kinematic pair called a helical joint. An important early example of something now taken for granted was the standardization of screw fasteners such as nuts and bolts. Methods were developed to cut screw thread to a greater precision than that of the feed screw in the lathe being used. The screw propeller was introduced in 1835 by Francis Pettit Smith who discovered a new way of building propellers by accident. But during the testing of a boat propelled by one, the screw snapped off, leaving a fragment shaped much like a modern boat propeller. Penn also introduced the trunk engine for driving screw propellers in vessels of war. Show More Sentences Earlier this year the trust took delivery of an Archimedes screw to once again use water to generate power. The debulked material then continuously is captured and removed by an internal Archimedes screw running the length of the catheter. Yet he seems sorely disappointed when you express no interest in purchasing a cigarette lighter in the shape of an Archimedes screw. The Archimedes screw draws water upwards by placing a screw inside a hollow pipe. Part of the restoration was the installation of an original waterwheel and an Archimedes' screw. The boys also investigated Newton's apple, how a pop-up toaster works, Archimedes' screw and how an element heats a kettle. To properly refasten the screws, the existing screws must be removed and a new slightly larger screw installed with an O-ring. Functions of the twin screw kneader are mainly on self-cleaning, transportation and mixture mechanisms, shearing, and rolling. He aligned the two holes so he could put the screw through them. The UT 6-TMC M series is a resettable, singlepole circuit breaker with screw connection. Consequently, screw profile 2 is assumed to be more severe as screw profile 1, and should also lead to higher residence times. Consider starting with zero backpressure and increase it only to the point where the screw comes back evenly and consistently during feeding. Backpressure is critical to fill the flights of the screw to minimize dead space. Usually injection pressure, injection velocity, screw position, and sometimes even backpressure can be plotted vs. And you know what happens if you screw up your sales tax returns? On the other side, the door hooks the hexhead screw, NSN 5305-00-781-3929, on the ballistic door arm. Optional accessories include analog output cables with banana plugs or screw terminals. However, the screw press was almost certainly not a Roman invention. The coal is fed out of the hopper by means of an ordinary screw. Today most incandescent lamps for general lighting service use an Edison screw in candelabra, intermediate, or standard or mogul sizes, or double contact bayonet base. Show More Sentences Miniature lamps may have a wedge base and wire contacts, and some automotive and special purpose lamps have screw terminals for connection to wires. Did the military screw things up, or did you simply misremember? Since the motive power of screw propulsion is delivered along the shaft, a thrust bearing is needed to transfer that load to the hull without excessive friction. It had considerable influence on ship development, encouraging the adoption of screw propulsion by the Royal Navy, in addition to her influence on commercial vessels. Becoming reliable, and propelled by screw rather than paddlewheels, the technology changed the design of ships for faster, more economic propulsion. Sir Francis Pettit Smith of Kent invented the screw propeller. Adjusting the letoff is as easy as loosening the Allen screw on the cam module, rotating it to the desired position and changing the position of the draw stop peg. A single Allen screw holds the riser on the machined aluminum barrel. The superiority of screw against paddles was taken up by navies. A small rotating handle is used called the 'rounce' to do this, and the impression is made with a screw that transmits pressure through the platen. I need a pair of pliers to get a good grip on that broken screw. Maudslay perfected the slide rest lathe, which could cut machine screws of different thread pitches by using changeable gears between the spindle and the lead screw. Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction. Pete Campbell would be just another irritating office brown-noser, a prep school Sammy Glick, except that he too has a screw loose and a mystical rapport with firearms. It is not fire, the wheel, writing, the Archimedes screw or movable type. You ate all the cake and you're calling me an idiot? Go screw yourself. What the Archimedes screw does mechanically, a salmon does instinctively. Montenegro gave Wales a scare in the first minute at the Cardiff City Stadium when Stevan Jovetic broke through, only to screw his shot well wide. It's not brain surgery. Just screw in the bulb and flip the switch. In 1877, he built the first screw propelled steam trawler in the world. Show More Sentences Back off second speed, overshift stop screw slightly, and determine that speed poppet is seated in notch. Tighten screw to permit a very slight overshift of lever to rear. Common residence times of 20-30 sec experienced when running at regular screw speeds can be trimmed to 6-10 sec at the higher speeds, says Berstorff's Stroupe. This process functions like a cutter suction dredger, but the cutting tool is a rotating Archimedean screw set at right angles to the suction pipe. Examples from Classical Literature If a propeller acts in the same way as a screw, then it too must have a pitch. To cause s to become locked in its adjusted position a plug screw p is inserted for the end of s to abut against. This chain had in some strange way become twisted about the screw of the cascabel. The chunking of the screw affected me also, but I seemed to relate it to a former and pleasing experience. The circumferential teeth are each counter-based to receive a screw tapped in the head, and are firmly locked thereby. Traps should be provided with cleanout screw openings, caps, etc., to facilitate cleaning. On new wire, when I fix my compensator, I usually have an adjusting screw on the lead to lever. The piston pin of the Mercedes is of chrome nickel steel, and is retained in the piston by means of a set screw and cotter pin. The jaw end is counterbored out with a 45-degree counterbore to form a bearing for the forward end of the micrometer screw. Nickel steel valves are used and are carried in castings or cages which screw into bosses in the cylinder head. The screw is placed in the ordinary polishing triangle and the flat face at a polished on a tin lap with diamantine and oil. A special charging funnel K, shown in half-scale, is provided for inserting in place of the screw cap. They packed their bars round with felt rings, and compressed the whole by a screw cap. The top is provided with a screw cap, perforated with numerous small holes for discharging water in fine streams. An empty water jug with a screw cap was attached to it, and he handed the end of the line to Scotty to take down with him. The tube b is closed at top with a screw cap, which can be taken off at pleasure, to permit the interior to be cleansed. She found the glass tube with the screw cap, and swallowed one of the tablets with a little water. At that time a new lighthouse of the screw pile type was built two and one-half miles offshore from Smith Point. The pitch of the screw thread on the concealed part of the spindle is 40 to an inch. The barrel and the ear piece engaged each other by means of a screw thread and served to clamp the diaphragm between them. Show More Sentences A screw thread designed by Sir Joseph Whitworth, and having a rounded top and bottom. A threaded cylinder or bore that serves as a standard of reference for the shape and diameter of a screw thread. The screw thread is turned off the set screw at the point where it enters the groove on the nut. The top of the thread is turned off 0.010 inch to allow the scriber F to slide freely on the screw. An example of a screw of uniform pitch would be a piece of angle iron wound around a parallel shaft. The invention with which his name is most frequently linked is that of the Archimedean screw. Fill 10 litres of water into the aspirating bottle and attach a piece of rubber tubing with a screw clamp to the delivery tube. Similar indicator ribbons are attachable to the back gage for screw, cable, chain, and metal tape movements. The Caroline carries a two bladed screw and her performances will be entirely satisfactory. Care should be taken to screw the53 bearing cap onto the shims as tightly as possible each time the blueing test is to be made. Screw battens across, and screw the whole firmly to the box top from the inside. He 'bused and beat us, an' some of de boys wouldn' go 'cept we knock de screw out first. The speculum is opened to its full width without undue strain on the canthus and is kept in position by tightening the screw. Valve rocker arms forged with cap screw and nut at upper end to adjust clearance. Remove one cap screw in the lowest position and insert the handle of the wrench through the screw hole into the hub. Tighten every other cap screw until all are down enough to hold wheel in place, making sure it is square on the hub. Then the two are held firmly together with the left hand until the cap screw is turned tight. In that short run I noticed I had lost the screw cap of the radiator. Take a ketchup bottle with a screw cap and a cork that fits tightly. This term generally alludes to the Archimedean screw, or screw-propeller. Show More Sentences I have got a screw in my pocket, and I never go without my tool-knife. Choking, he managed with numbed fingers to screw his helmet on. The power generation is made possible by a 13-metre long, 20-tonne Archimedean screw, which is driven by the flow of the River Wear. Furthermore, never use an auxiliary lever to screw up the jaws. A screw thread that is not a true spiral, but is waved in its course. A screw which is designed to hold or adjust two angled pieces. No sunlight ever made her blink, or screw her face into wrinkles. In a conventional Archimedean screw, during the melting stage, breakage of the solid bed in the cross channel direction can occur. A bolt that has one screw thread can be used on any machine. They were bracketed together, and secured by screw bolts and nuts. The icy regions of the north are braved by the auxiliary screw. Beneath the lantern there is a cylindrical box provided with a screw cap. The crosspiece should now revolve with the screw as an axis. The male and female connectors, shielded via a knurled screw or nut, are available in several different versions. A screw thread, having two spirals in the same bolt or body. The back blocks are bored to attach a screw into the rear leg for added strength. If you want to really screw the DHS, you have to embarrass them. The 150KW plant at Osbaston is based on a screw-turbine called an Archimedean screw that was originally developed by the ancient Greeks to pump water upwards for irrigation. Soon I felt the beatings of the screw quicken, and our speed increased. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of screw? Words that rhyme with screw What is the past tense of screw? What is the adjective for screw? What is the noun for screw? Translations for screw Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words screes screenwriting screenwriters screenwriter screenshots screenshot Screw screwable screwball screwballs screwdriver screwdrivers 5-letter Words Starting With s sc scr scre