What is "levers"

Usage examples of "levers".

He sawed his reins, but the half-ton carnivore had taken control of its immediate future and ignored the levers pressing on its muzzle.

A few men were hammering at the levers with knife-hilts or trying to pick the cooling metal scraps out of the breech with the points as they rode.

The feet serve both as supports for the body and as levers for pushing the body forward.

Diagrams show relative distances moved by the power and weight in levers having the power nearer the fulcrum than is the weight.

For this reason no well-defined levers of the second class are present in the body.

Diagrams show relative distances moved by the power and weight in levers having the weight nearer the fulcrum than is the power.

Why are levers of the second class not adapted to the work of the body?

The position of the weight, the fulcrum, and the power in the different classes of levers, and also the weight-arm and the power-arm in each case.

Then-standing on the gravity brakes for all he was worth-he eased the power levers forward.

Moments later-long before the levers were even halfway along their arc-the launch began to totter and stumble forward toward the closed hatch.

During the next moment, he shoved his power levers all the way forward to the stop at MAXIMUM, then clenched his teeth.

Well, the Levers will have a vacancy for an economist on their personal staff.

DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories.

They had not been there before, so they must have slipped into their places after the Levers had arrived.

He searched its maze of vanes and struts and levers, until at last he saw the swinging car.