beak vs screw

beak

verb
  • Seize with the beak. 

  • To play truant. 

  • Strike with the beak. 

noun
  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). 

  • The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. 

  • That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. 

  • A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. 

  • A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. 

  • A justice of the peace; a magistrate. 

  • The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. 

  • The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. 

  • The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. 

  • A toe clip. 

  • A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. 

  • cocaine. 

  • Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. 

  • Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. 

  • A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. 

screw

verb
  • To contort. 

  • To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To screw back. 

  • To connect or assemble pieces using a screw. 

  • To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. 

  • To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot. 

noun
  • Salary, wages. 

  • An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint. 

  • A casual sexual partner. 

  • A prison guard. 

  • A simple machine, a helical inclined plane. 

  • Backspin. 

  • 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. 

  • A small packet of tobacco. 

  • A ship's propeller. 

  • An Archimedes screw. 

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

  • Rheumatism. 

  • 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. 

  • A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels. 

  • Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing. 

  • An amphipod crustacean. 

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