ALL meanings of lever
lev·er
L l - noun lever tool for lifting 2
- noun lever stick: operates a switch 1
- transitive verb lever raise, prise up 1
- noun lever tool to force sb/sth 1
- noun lever Lift or move with a lever. 1
- noun lever Charles James ("Cornelius O'Dowd") 1806–72, Irish novelist and essayist. 1
- countable noun lever A lever is a handle or bar that is attached to a piece of machinery and which you push or pull in order to operate the machinery. 0
- countable noun lever A lever is a long bar, one end of which is placed under a heavy object so that when you press down on the other end you can move the object. 0
- verb lever If you lever something in a particular direction, you move it there, especially by using a lot of effort. 0
- countable noun lever A lever is an idea or action that you can use to make people do what you want them to do, rather than what they want to do. 0
- noun lever a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum, used to transfer a force to a load and usually to provide a mechanical advantage 0
- noun lever any of a number of mechanical devices employing this principle 0
- noun lever a means of exerting pressure in order to accomplish something; strategic aid 0
- verb lever to prise or move (an object) with a lever 0
- noun lever a bar used as a pry 0
- noun lever a means to an end 0
- noun lever a device consisting of a bar turning about a fixed point, the fulcrum, using power or force applied at a second point to lift or sustain a weight at a third point; hence, any handle or the like used to operate something 0
- verb transitive lever to move, lift, etc. with or as with a lever 0
- verb transitive lever to use as a lever 0
- noun lever A lever is a rigid bar pivoted around a fulcrum, used to transfer a force to a load and usually to provide a mechanical advantage. 0
- noun lever (mechanics) 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. 0
- noun lever A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button). 0
- noun lever (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it. 0
- noun lever (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it. 0
- noun lever (rare) A levee. 0
- verb lever (Transitive Verb) To move with a lever. 0
- verb lever (Transitive Verb) (figuratively) To use, operate like a lever. 0
- verb lever (chiefly Britain, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business. 0
- adverb lever (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Rather. 0