| screech | A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream. Screech bird, or Screech thrush A small American owl (Scops asio), either gray or reddish in colour. The European barn owl. The name is applied also to other species. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| screechers | <ornithology> The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| screed | 1. A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide. A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat. 2. A fragment; a portion; a shred. Origin: Prov. E, a shred, the border of a cap. See Shred. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| screen | 1. To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill. "They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high comands." (Macaulay) 2. To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc, through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift. 3. To examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose. As (a), To inspect the qualifications of candidates for a job, to select one or more to be hired. (b) (Biochem, Med) To test a large number of samples, in order to find those having specific desirable properties; as, to screen plant extracts for anticancer agents. Origin: Screened; Screening. 1. Anything that separates or cuts off inconvience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen. "Your leavy screens throw down." (Shak) "Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy." (Bacon) 2. A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like. 3. A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc, upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc. 4. A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like. 5. A netting, usu. Of metal, contained in a frame, used mostly in windows or doors to allow in fresh air while excluding insects. Screen door, a door of which half or more is composed of a screen. Screen window, a screen fitted for insertion into a window frame. 6. The surface of an electronic device, as a television set or computer monitor, on which a visible image is formed. The screen is frequently the surface of a cathode-ray tube containing phosphors excited by the electron beam, but other methods for causing an image to appear on the screen are also used, as in flat-panel displays. 7. The motion-picture industry; motion pictures. "A star of stage and screen." Origin: OE. Scren, OF. Escrein, escran, F. Ecran, of uncertain origin; cf. G. Schirm a screen, OHG. Scrim, scern a protection, shield, or G. Schragen a trestle, a stack of wood, or G. Schranne a railing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| screen defense | The use of falsified or incomplete memories or affects to cover repressed but associated memories and affects. (05 Mar 2000) |
| screen memory | In psychoanalysis, a consciously tolerable memory that unwittingly serves as a cover for another associated memory which would be emotionally painful if recalled. (05 Mar 2000) |
| screen-film contact | The closeness and uniformity with which the X-ray film in a cassette lies against the screen. Image resolution is dependent on this closeness and uniformity of contact. (05 Mar 2000) |
| screening | Examination of people with no symptoms, to detect unsuspected disease. (16 Dec 1997) |
| screening audiometry | Rapid measurement of the hearing of an individual or a group against a predetermined limit of normalcy; auditory responses to different frequencies presented at a constant intensity level are tested. (05 Mar 2000) |
| screening test | Any testing procedure designed to separate people or objects according to a fixed characteristic or property. (05 Mar 2000) |
| screw | 1. To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press. 2. To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws. "But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail." (Shak) 3. Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions. "Our country landlords, by unmeasureable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France." (swift) 4. To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage. "He screwed his face into a hardened smile." (Dryden) 5. To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination. To screw out, to press out; to extort. To screw up, to force; to bring by violent pressure. To screw in, to force in by turning or twisting. Origin: Screwed; Screwing. 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove, between one turn and the next, used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut. The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the screw, its base equaling the circumference of the cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread. 2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below. 3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; especially, a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below. 4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller. 5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. 6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. 7. A small packet of tobacco. 8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. 9. <mathematics> A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10). 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. 10. <zoology> An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand. Archimedes screw, Compound screw, Foot screw, etc. See Archimedes, Compound, Foot, etc. A screw loose, something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. Endless, or perpetual screw, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; called also a worm. Lag screw. See Lag. Micrometer screw, a screw with fine threads, used for the measurement of very small spaces. Right and left screw, a screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions. Screw alley. See Shaft alley. Screw bean. <botany> The larva of an American fly (Compsomyia macellaria), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. Screw wrench. A wrench for turning a screw. A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw. To put the screw, or screws, on, to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce. To put under the screw or screws, to subject to presure; to force. Wood screw, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. Origin: OE. Scrue, OF. Escroue, escroe, female screw, F. Ecrou, L. Scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL, the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. Schroef a screw, G. Schraube, Icel. Skrfa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| screw arteries | Coiled artery's into the uterine mucosa or in the macular region of the retina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| screw elevator | A dental instrument with a threaded extremity used for extracting the root of a broken tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| screw joint | A variety of hinge joint in which the elevation and depression, respectively, on the opposing articular surfaces form part of a spiral, flexion being then accompanied by a certain amount of lateral deviation. Synonym: screw joint, spiral joint. (05 Mar 2000) |
| screw pinch | <radiobiology> A variant on the theta pinch, in which axial currents (as in a z pinch, but less intense) produce a poloidal magnetic field (in addition to the usual longitudinal field), thus making a corkscrew field configuration. See: theta pinch, z pinch, pinch device. (09 Oct 1997) |
Synonyms : Tsutsugamushi Fever, Disease, Tsutsugamushi, Diseases, Tsutsugamushi, Fever, Tsutsugamushi, Fevers, Tsutsugamushi, Tsutsugamushi Diseases, Tsutsugamushi Fevers
| scrub typhus |
tsutsugamushi disease: transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia
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| scrubbing |
scrub: the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
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| scruple |
a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains hesitate on moral grounds; "The man scrupled to perjure himself" uneasiness about the fitness of an action raise scruples; "He lied and did not even scruple about it" have doubts about an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
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| scrapie |
a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system
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| screen memory |
an imagined memory of a childhood experience; hides another memory of distressing significance
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| SCR | leave immediately |
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| SCR | rushing about hastily in an undignified way |
| SCR | an unceremonious and disorganized struggle |
| SCR | make unintelligible |
| SCR | stir vigorously |
| SCR | bring into random order |
| SCR | to move hurriedly |
| SCR | climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling |
| SCR | thrown together in a disorderly fashion |
| SCR | eggs beaten and cooked to a soft firm consistency while stirring |
| SCR | electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception |
| SCR | a motorcycle with ridged tires and a strong suspension |