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Chiefly Brit vet: The agency screens all candidates before
sending them to see a client.
screw n. 1 bolt, screw-bolt, machine screw, lag-bolt, lag-screw:
This screw is too small to hold that door hinge. 2 helix,
spiral, corkscrew: The screw of a spiral staircase should not
be too small for safety. 3 sexual intercourse; sexual partner,
Slang lay, Taboo slang fuck: When arrested for kerb-crawling,
he said that he was just looking for a screw. 4 put the screws
on (someone). pressure, influence, force, constrain, press,
oblige, require, demand, coerce, compel, apply pressure, bring
pressure to bear (on); insist; Chiefly Brit pressurize, Colloq
twist (someone's) arm, put the squeeze on (someone): I believe
that someone put the screws on him to leave town.
--v. 5 twist, turn, rotate: Screw the bolt in clockwise. 6
Often, screw out of. defraud, cheat, swindle, gull, bilk, do out
of, Slang take, clip, fleece: They screwed him by convincing
him that the bonds were real. He was screwed out of all his
savings. 7 screw up. a raise, increase, stretch, strain;
summon, call up, call upon, tap, draw on or upon: I screwed up
my courage to ask for a salary increase. b ruin, destroy, make
a mess of, botch, bungle, muddle, mismanage, mishandle, Colloq
make a hash of, Slang louse up, Brit make a muck-up of, US
bollix up, Taboo slang fuck up, Brit bugger up, ballocks or
bollocks up, make a balls-up of: It is hard to see how they
could have screwed up such a simple operation. c contort, twist,
deform, warp: At the suggestion of cauliflower, Ambrose screwed
up his face in displeasure.
scribe n. 1 copyist, copier, transcriber, Archaic scrivener;
amanuensis, clerk, secretary: Before the invention of movable
type printing, copies of books and documents were prepared by
scribes. 2 writer, author, penman, scrivener, wordsmith,
scribbler, hack, penny-a-liner; dramatist, dramaturge,
playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, columnist, technical
writer; journalist, gentleman or lady of the press,
newspaperman, newspaperwoman, reporter, rewrite man or woman or
person, editor, reviewer, commentator, newswriter, sob sister,
agony aunt or uncle, Miss Lonelyhearts, gossip columnist, member
of the fourth estate, Brit paragraphist, leader-writer, US Grub
Streeter, Colloq Brit journo: In a general way, he refers to
all writers as 'scribes', but particularly those he considers a