Sentence examples for as a screws from inspiring English sources

Prisoners know it as a "screws' nick" where the regime is dictated by staff, not management.

Making a thread on a workpiece (such as a screw).

This new approach, unit dual quaternion (UDQ), describes a spatial transformation as a screw with only 8 elements.

After intraorally confirming the esthetics, occlusion, and fit, the prosthesis is cemented intraorally and removed as a screw-retained prosthesis.

Since the fin can be machined via simple mechanical threading, this tube is called as a "screw tube".

At the time a spokesman described the decision to make the data publicly available as "a screw-up, and we're angry and upset".

Maoism explicitly disavowed the value of the individual in society by recasting every citizen, in effect, as a "screw in the machine".

Anything that is part of a satellite assembly needs vetting even if it is as common as a lithium-ion battery, as insignificant as a screw or as innocuous as a stand for a satellite (see article).

Robbie Williams's deal with EMI was a joint venture and he has retained the rights to his music – and I wouldn't classify him as a screwed artist, at least not financially.

"Empirically it has been wrong to think of this as a screw-up among Beijing policymakers," says Yarrow in a telephone interview.

Biomechanical studies have shown that a bone defect such as a screw hole can concentrate stress and decrease the bone strength to torsional loading [22, 23, 24].