Crossword clues for lever
lever
- Bottle opener, e.g
- Bar used as a pry
- Bar pivoted about a fulcrum
- Bar for lifting
- Voting-machine part
- Voting machine component
- Voting booth fixture
- Vote finalizer
- Thing pulled in an old voting booth
- Slot machine arm, e.g
- Seesaw, essentially
- Seesaw, e.g
- Recliner activator
- Prying-open tool
- Prying need
- Pryer's need
- Piano keyboard component
- Peavey, e.g
- Parking brake part
- Operating handle
- One-armed bandit's arm
- Old voting machine part
- Old voting machine feature
- Old voting booth feature
- Old slot machine part
- Obsolescent vote finalizer
- Lathering option
- Joystick, e.g
- Jimmy, for one
- Jimmy, essentially
- Item used with a fulcrum
- Item in some voting machines
- It's about a fulcrum
- Fulcrum's bar
- Essential for prying
- Emergency brake control
- Crowbar, basically
- Crowbar at work
- Crowbar often
- Control stick
- Carnival-ride activator
- British novelist
- Bottle opener, essentially
- Bar at the polling place?
- Archimedean world-mover
- Archimedean world mover
- Archimedean machine
- Prying tool
- Crowbar, e.g
- Crowbar, e.g.
- Jimmy, e.g
- Part of a voting machine
- Seesaw, e.g.
- Voting machine part, perhaps
- Piano key, essentially
- Prying bar, e.g.
- Pry bar, e.g
- Wrench, essentially
- A rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
- A simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
- Device for Archimedes
- Tool for Archimedes
- Crowbar or pry
- Simple machine
- Peavey, e.g.
- Prying bar, e.g
- 89 + 30
- Instrument for lifting
- Tool for prying
- Bar to exert pressure
- Bar for prying
- Prying device
- This will give you a lift
- Peavy
- Means to an end
- Operating mechanism
- Whirling around, party in bar
- You can pull me when party's over
- Rigid bar
- It may be used to obtain a purchase
- Machine part
- Weight lifter
- Crowbar, essentially
- Crowbar, for example
- Lifting bar
- Voting-booth device
- Voting machine part
- Voting booth feature
- Subject for Archimedes
- Pivot bar
- Part of a Rube Goldberg machine
- One of the six simple machines
- It may pry
- Certain simple machine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lever \Lev"er\, adv.
Rather. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
For lever had I die than see his deadly face.
--Spenser.
Lever \Lev"er\ (l[=e]"v[~e]r), a. [Old compar. of leve or lief.]
More agreeable; more pleasing. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
To be lever than. See Had as lief, under Had.
Lever \Le"ver\ (l[=e]"v[~e]r or l[e^]v"[~e]r; 277), n. [OE. levour, OF. leveor, prop., a lifter, fr. F. lever to raise, L. levare; akin to levis light in weight, E. levity, and perh. to E. light not heavy: cf. F. levier. Cf. Alleviate, Elevate, Leaven, Legerdemain, Levee, Levy, n.]
(Mech.) 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. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
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(Mach.)
A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
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An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
Compound lever, a machine consisting of two or more levers acting upon each other.
Lever escapement. See Escapement.
Lever jack. See Jack, n., 5.
Lever watch, a watch having a vibrating lever to connect the action of the escape wheel with that of the balance.
Universal lever, a machine formed by a combination of a lever with the wheel and axle, in such a manner as to convert the reciprocating motion of the lever into a continued rectilinear motion of some body to which the power is applied.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French levier (Modern French leveur) "a lifter, a lever," agent noun from lever "to raise," from Latin levare "to raise," from levis "light" in weight, from PIE root *legwh- "light, having little weight; easy, agile, nimble" (cognates: Sanskrit laghuh "quick, small;" Greek elakhys "small," elaphros "light;" Old Church Slavonic liguku, Lithuanian lengvas "light;" Old Irish laigiu "smaller, worse;" Gothic leihts, Old English leoht "light" (adj.)). As a verb, 1856, from the noun.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context mechanics English) 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. 2 # Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures. 3 A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button). 4 (context mechanics English) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To move with a lever#Noun. 2 (context figuratively transitive English) To use, operate like a lever#Noun. 3 (context chiefly UK finance English) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business. Etymology 2
adv. (context obsolete English) rather. Etymology 3
n. (context rare English) A levee.
WordNet
n. a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock [syn: lever tumbler]
Wikipedia
A lever ( or ) is a machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point on itself. On the basis of the location of fulcrum, load and effort, the lever is divided into three types. It is one of the six simple machines identified by Renaissance scientists. A lever amplifies an input force to provide a greater output force, which is said to provide leverage. The ratio of the output force to the input force is the mechanical advantage of the lever.
A lever is a mechanical device to multiply force.
Lever may also refer to:
- Lever, Portugal
- Lever (surname), and persons with the name
- Lever Brothers, British household goods company
- Lever (company), a US software company
Lever is an US-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that provides an applicant tracking system for hiring. It was founded in 2012 by Sarah Nahm, Nate Smith, and Randal Truong.
Lever raised $2.8 million in a seed round in September 2012, $10 million in its Series A round in October 2014 and a further $20 million in its Series B round in January 2016. It is backed by an advisory board which includes Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, and Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp.
Lever is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Sir Arthur Lever, 1st Baronet (1860–1924), British politician
- Arthur Lever (footballer) (1920–2004), Welsh professional footballer and Wales international
- Asbury Francis Lever (1875–1940), member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina
- Sir Ashton Lever (1729–1788), English collector of natural objects
- Caitlin Lever (born 1985), Canadian softball player
- Charles Lever (1806–1872), Irish novelist of English descent
- Colin Lever (born 1939), English former cricketer
- Darcy Lever (c.1759–1839), British author and expert in seamanship
- Don Lever (born 1952), Canadian retired professional ice hockey left winger
- Eddie Lever, manager of English football club Portsmouth F.C. 1952–1958
- Lafayette "Fat" Lever (born 1960), American retired professional basketball player
- Sir Hardman Lever, 1st Baronet (1869–1947), English accountant and civil servant
- Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester (1914–1995), English barrister and politician
- Harry Lever (born 1886), Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the VFL
- Hayley Lever (1876–1958), Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher
- Henry W. Lever (1883–1980), American sportsperson and educator, head football coach at Carroll College
- James Darcy Lever (1854–1910), English co-founder of Lever Brothers
- John Orrell Lever (1824–1897), English shipping owner and politician
- John Lever (born 1949), English former cricketer
- Johnny Lever (born 1957), Indian film actor and comedian
- Laurie Lever (born 1947), English-Australian Olympic-level equestrian rider
- Leslie Lever, Baron Lever (1905–1977), British politician
- Mark Lever (born 1970), English former professional footballer
- Sir Paul Lever (born 1944), British retired ambassador
- Peter Lever (born 1940), English former cricketer
- Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme (1915–2000), British landowner and race-horse owner
- Rob Lever, English rugby league footballer
- Thomas Lever (or Leaver, Leiver) (1521–1577), English Protestant reformer and Marian exile
- Tim Lever, member of British pop group Dead or Alive 1983–89
- William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), English industrialist, philanthropist and politician; the primary founder of Lever Brothers
- William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme (1888–1949), English industrialist and philanthropist
Usage examples of "lever".
Springs, alembics, coils of copper tubing, buckled sheets of metal, gear systems both rack-and-pinion and epicyclic, pendulums, levers, cams, cranks, differentials, bearings, pulleys, assorted tools, and stone jars containing alkahest and corrosive substances crowded every horizontal surface.
Speed is controlled by increasing or diminishing the number of armature bearings in series with the accumulator--all of which is simply accomplished by a lever which the pilot moves from his position on deck where he ordinarily lies upon his stomach, his safety belt snapped to heavy rings in the deck.
That night in our apartment, I kept expecting to see two teams of Bunraku masters standing behind John and me, pulling levers in our heads, sculpting every move we made.
We drove off, the machine chuffing and rattling in response to the things she did to a collection of levers.
When I said I could murder the cobber if we fought under low gravity, I must have put an idea into his head, and when we had the fight he stood there waiting at the lever.
In the center of the coolant system was a reactor core with a pistol-grip lever protruding from it that moved the control rods.
Keeping his eyes on the Way, Darr Veter stretched out his hand and turned a lever to point M, ensuring himself solitude for meditation.
The bronze gong sounded as Darr Veter turned over the lever that switched off the stream of transmitted energy.
Finally, after one last, hesitant glance at the living statue before him, he slid the decarbonization lever into place.
Lieutenant Koudelka sat in the aperture, blinking dizzily, blood dripping down his chin, then was levered to his feet by a guard.
I called back my gaze and, to dispel my irritation, began in earnest to use my drumsticks as levers.
There were dozens of levers and gadgets that had to be hooked up, and Durand put them in place so rapidly that there was no chance to follow his movements.
It took but an instant, however, for me to regain the levers, and with the roof barely fifty feet above I turned her nose once more into the horizontal plane and headed her again for the black mouth of the shaft.
The man looked annoyed, and tried, by the skilful use of gasolene and sparking levers, to leave Tom behind.
Jerry, as he shoved the gasolene lever over a trifle, and advanced the spark, thereby increasing the speed of the car.