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Definition of Screwlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a screw (mechanical fastener) or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Screwlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Screwlike
Literary usage of Screwlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... the head, neck and trunk, as well as the limbs, undergo a screwlike rotation
from the side of the lesion toward the healthy side (Stewart and Holmes), ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Referring to a screwlike coil: helix, (rare). 2. helical, twisted, screw-shaped,
coiled. spire, n. 1. See GROWTH. or body: spec, steeple, branch, broach, 2. ..."
3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1919)
"... the air makes from 1* to 5 screwlike revoluti through the helix from inlet to
outlet. For fairly di the ordinary dust-collecting system, two turns are ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"177] that every infinitely small motion of a • rigid system may be produced by
a screwlike motion,* namely, rotation round an axis, accompanied by a ..."
5. A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery by William Smoult Playfair (1882)
"These arrangements, therefore, give a screwlike form to the interior of the
pelvis ; and as the pains force the head downwards they are effectual in ..."
6. Organ-stops and Their Artistic Registration: Names, Forms, Construction by George Ashdown Audsley (1921)
"... its lower edge being diagonally cut, so as to have a screwlike motion against
a small projecting button of solder on the body, as indicated. ..."
7. Special Pathology and Therapeutics of the Diseases of Domestic Animals by Ferenc Hutyra, Josef Marek (1913)
"The two invaginated portions of intestines form a curved, screwlike, or tortuous
cylinder (Figs. 49 and 50) which is finn, ..."
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