The difference between Bone and Screw

When used as nouns, bone means a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates, whereas screw means a simple machine, a helical inclined plane.

When used as verbs, bone means to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from, whereas screw means to connect or assemble pieces using a screw.

Bone is also adjective with the meaning: of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bone and Screw

  1. Bone as a noun (uncountable):

    A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

  2. Bone as a noun (countable):

    Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

  3. Bone as a noun:

    A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

  4. Bone as a noun:

    A bonefish

  5. Bone as a noun:

    One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

  6. Bone as a noun:

    One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

  7. Bone as a noun:

    Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

  8. Bone as a noun (figurative):

    The framework of anything.

  9. Bone as a noun:

    An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

    Examples:

    "color paneE4D4BA"

  10. Bone as a noun (US, informal):

    A dollar.

  11. Bone as a noun (American football, informal):

    The wishbone formation.

  12. Bone as a noun (slang):

    An erect penis; a boner.

  13. Bone as a noun (slang, mostly, plural):

    A domino or dice.

  1. Bone as an adjective:

    Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

  1. Bone as a verb:

    To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

  2. Bone as a verb:

    To fertilize with bone.

  3. Bone as a verb:

    To put whalebone into.

    Examples:

    "to bone stays"

    "rfquotek Ash"

  4. Bone as a verb (civil engineering):

    To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

    Examples:

    "[[boning rod]]"

  5. Bone as a verb (vulgar, slang, usually of a man):

    To have sexual intercourse with.

  6. Bone as a verb (Australia, dated, in [[Aboriginal]] culture):

    To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

  7. Bone as a verb (usually with "up"):

    To study.

    Examples:

    "[[bone up]]"

  8. Bone as a verb:

    To polish boots to a shiny finish.

  1. Bone as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To apprehend, steal.

  1. Bone as a verb (carpentry, masonry, surveying):

    To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  1. Bone as a noun (slang):

  1. Screw as a noun (nautical):

    A device that has a helical function. A simple machine, a helical inclined plane. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a shank 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 ship's propeller. An Archimedes screw. A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.

  2. Screw as a noun (derogatory):

    A prison guard.

  3. Screw as a noun (derogatory):

    An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.

  4. Screw as a noun (US, slang, dated):

    An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.

  5. Screw as a noun (vulgar, slang):

    Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.

  6. Screw as a noun (vulgar, slang):

    A casual sexual partner.

  7. Screw as a noun (slang):

    Salary, wages.

  8. Screw as a noun (billiards):

    Backspin.

  9. Screw as a noun (slang):

    A small packet of tobacco.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Mayhew"

  10. Screw as a noun (dated):

    An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.

  11. Screw as a noun (math):

    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.

  12. Screw as a noun:

    An amphipod crustacean.

    Examples:

    "the skeleton screw (Caprella);  the sand screw'"

  1. Screw as a verb (transitive):

    To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.

  2. Screw as a verb (transitive, vulgar, slang):

    To have sexual intercourse with.

  3. Screw as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. Sometimes used in the form "screw over".

  4. Screw as a verb (transitive):

    To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.

  5. Screw as a verb:

    To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.

  6. Screw as a verb (transitive):

    To contort.

  7. Screw as a verb (soccer, transitive):

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

  8. Screw as a verb (billiard, snooker, pool):

    To screw back.

  9. Screw as a verb (US, slang, dated):

    To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

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