screwdriver
/ˈskɹuˌdɹaɪvɚ/
screwdriver noun: a hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.
Noun
screwdriver (plural screwdrivers)
- A hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.
- Synonyms:
- turnscrew
- A cocktail made of vodka and orange juice.
- Celestial asked for a screwdriver and the bartender poured a good four fingers of Smirnoff into a flimsy cup before opening a can of juice.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 154
screwdriver meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
screwdriver in Hindi
- tool
- पेंचकस pẽckas, पेचकस peckas, पेचकश peckaś, स्क्रूड्राइवर skrūḍrāivar
screwdriver in Tamil
- tool
- திருப்புளி tiruppuḷi
screwdriver in Urdu
- tool
- پیچ کَش pec-kaś, سکریو ڈرایور skrū-ḍrāivar
screwdriver in Bengali
- tool
- স্ক্রু ড্রাইভার skru ḍraibhar
More languagesFewer languages
- screwdriver in Kannada
- ತಿರುಗುಳಿ, ತಿರುಪುಳಿ, ತಿರುಪಣಿ, ತಿರುಪಳಿ
- screwdriver in Gujarati
- પેચકસ peckas, પેચિયું peciyũ
- screwdriver in Tagalog
- destornilyador
- screwdriver in Arabic
- مِفَكّ الْبَرَاغِيّ mifakk al-barāḡiyy
- screwdriver in Malay
- pemutar skru
- screwdriver in Indonesian
- obeng, drai, miras vodka jeruk, screwdriver
- screwdriver in Persian
- پیچگوشتی pič-gušti
- screwdriver in Thai
- ไขควง kǎi-kuuang
- screwdriver in Vietnamese
- chìa vít, tuộc vít, tuốc-nơ-vít
- screwdriver in Myanmar
- ဝက်အူလှည့် wak-uhlany.
Examples of screwdriver in a sentence
- A screwdriver is a tool that no household should be without.
- The entire thing was built by some amateurs with screwdrivers and plywood.
- Can you hand me that screwdriver? Wait, never mind, give me the fire extinguisher instead.
Synonyms of screwdriver
Forms of screwdriver
| plural | screwdrivers |
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Origin of screwdriver
Compound of screw + driver.
Words formed from screwdriver
Phrases with screwdriver
Questions about screwdriver
- What does screwdriver mean?
- Screwdriver means a hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.
- What is screwdriver in Hindi?
- Screwdriver in Hindi is पेंचकस (pẽckas), पेचकस (peckas), पेचकश (peckaś). See Screwdriver meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is screwdriver?
- Screwdriver is a noun.
- How do you pronounce screwdriver?
- Screwdriver is pronounced /ˈskɹuˌdɹaɪvɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of screwdriver?
- The plural of screwdriver is screwdrivers.
Words near screwdriver in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: screwdriver (page history and authors); screwdriver (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પેચકસ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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