A lever is a handle, sticking out at an angle, that allows you to operate a machine or close a door . When you pull the lever of a voting booth, you both cast your ballot and open the curtain.
More agreeable; more pleasing.
Noun
a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
Noun
a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
Noun
a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
Verb
to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
a.
More agreeable; more pleasing.
adv.
Rather.
n.
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.
n.
A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn
it.
n.
An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to
obtain motion from it.
Lever
Lever
For lever had I die than see his deadly face.
Lever
More agreeable; more pleasing.
Bather.
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 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.
Usage Examples
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.
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Other Usage ExamplesAn important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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