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screwdrive

screwdrive verb: to assemble or fasten with a screwdriver.

Verb

screwdrive (third-person singular simple present screwdrives, present participle screwdriving, simple past screwdrove, past participle screwdriven)

  1. (rare, transitive) To assemble or fasten with a screwdriver.
    • Chinese trade mushroomed as component imports increased, were screwdriven together in China, and the finished products re-exported.1999, Jean Grugel, Wil Hout, Regionalism Across the North-South Divide, page 90
    • If the operator violates this instruction and, for example, tries to slightly move the workpiece while the robot is screwdriving it, then the execution may be interrupted […]2019, Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessandro Fantechi, Laura Semini, From Software Engineering to Formal Methods and Tools, and Back, page 113

Forms of screwdrive

third-person singular presentscrewdrives
present participlescrewdriving
pastscrewdrove
past participlescrewdriven

Origin of screwdrive

Back-formation from screwdriver.

Questions about screwdrive

What does screwdrive mean?
Screwdrive means to assemble or fasten with a screwdriver.
What part of speech is screwdrive?
Screwdrive is a verb.
What is the past tense of screwdrive?
The past tense of screwdrive is screwdrove.

Words near screwdrive in the dictionary

  1. screwcap
  2. screwcapped
  3. screwcaps
  4. screwdown
  5. screwdowns
  6. screwdrive
  7. screwdriven
  8. screwdriver
  9. screwdriver operation
  10. screwdriver operations
  11. screwdrivers

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