lever
/ˈliː.vɚ/
Misollar
- Push the lever down to flush.
- The handbrake lever was just behind the gearstick.
- When you press this lever, the seat tilts forward.
- Leverage is to debt as lever is to what?
- They lifted the rock by means of a lever.
- The machine gives a food reward when your rat presses a lever.
ot noun
- (except in generalized senses below) A crowbar.
- A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
- A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
- A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
fe’l verb
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To move with a lever.
With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
- To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
- To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
- To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
ravish adverb
- Rather.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.