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• screw your eyes up — ˌscrew your ˈeyes/ˈfaceup derived to contract the muscles of your eyes or face because the light is too strong, you are in pain, etc • He took a sip of the medicine and screwed up his face. Main entry: ↑screwderived …   Useful english dictionary

• screw your face up — ˌscrew your ˈeyes/ˈfaceup derived to contract the muscles of your eyes or face because the light is too strong, you are in pain, etc • He took a sip of the medicine and screwed up his face. Main entry: ↑screwderived …   Useful english dictionary

• screw — 1 noun 1 (C) a thin pointed piece of metal that you push and turn in order to fasten pieces of metal or wood together: Tighten the screws on the plug. 2 (C) slang taboo an act of having sex 3 have a screw loose informal often humorous to be… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• screw — screw1 [skru:] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: escroe inner screw, nut , from Latin scrofa female pig ] 1.) a thin pointed piece of metal that you push and turn in order to fasten pieces of metal or wood together →↑nail ▪ Fix the frame… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• screw — screw1 [ skru ] noun count * 1. ) a thin pointed piece of metal used for fastening one thing to another. It has a raised twisted part on it called a thread. You push and turn it with a screwdriver instead of hitting it with a hammer like a nail:… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• screw up — verb 1. make more intense (Freq. 1) Emotions were screwed up • Syn: ↑heat up, ↑hot up • Hypernyms: ↑intensify, ↑compound, ↑heighten, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• screw up — 1) PHR V ERG If you screw up your eyes or your face, you tighten your eye or face muscles, for example because you are in pain or because the light is too bright. [V P n (not pron)] She had screwed up her eyes, as if she found the sunshine too… …   English dictionary

• screw — [[t]skru͟ː[/t]] screws, screwing, screwed 1) N COUNT A screw is a metal object similar to a nail, with a raised spiral line around it. You turn a screw using a screwdriver so that it goes through two things, for example two pieces of wood, and… …   English dictionary

• screw */ — I UK [skruː] / US [skru] verb Word forms screw : present tense I/you/we/they screw he/she/it screws present participle screwing past tense screwed past participle screwed 1) [transitive] to fasten one thing to another using screws Next screw the… …   English dictionary

• screw — noun 1》 a short, slender, sharp pointed metal pin with a raised helical thread running around it and a slotted head, used to join things together by being rotated in under pressure.     ↘a cylinder with a helical ridge or thread running round the …   English new terms dictionary

• Screw picket — A screw picket is a metal device used to secure something to the ground. Today, screw pickets are used widely to temporarily picket dogs and grazing animals such as sheep, goats, and horses. Screw pickets are also used to stabilize small trees,… …   Wikipedia