screw in English: A small metal pin with a spiral line around it that holds two things together. To screw something is to turn it into place. (noun)

Translation

A small metal pin with a spiral line around it that holds two things together. To screw something is to turn it into place.

Word origin

From Old French escroue, the name for a nut or a screw hole.

Gender

Pluralscrews

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A screw holds two pieces of wood or metal together.

screwdriver.

You turn a screw to push it into place.

lid tightly .

Here "screw" is a verb: to turn something into place.

turn

To move so you face a new way, or to make something move round.

fix

To mend something that is broken so it works again.

build

To make something by putting parts together, like a house or a wall.

machine

A thing with moving parts that uses power to do work for people.

hole

An empty or open space in a solid thing, or a hollow place in the ground.

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