Lever

Definition: Lever

Lever

Noun

1. A rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum.

2. A simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum.

3. A flat metal tumbler in a lever lock.

Verb

1. To move or force, esp. in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lever" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Synonyms: Lever

Cause

Pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate cause, causa causans; straw that breaks the camel's back.

Elevation

Lever; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge, dredger, dredging machine.

Instrument

Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel.

The Drama

Play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame; melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.

Crosswords: Lever

Danish (liver), Dutch (liver), French (dismiss, get up, heave, hoist, hold up, lever, lever up, lift, prove, put up, put up with smth., raise, raise up, rise, rising, take off, take up, thrust), German (levee), Hungarian (down, strike down, strike off, subdue, to beat down, to drive in a pile, to knock off, to lay, laid, to overwhelm, to pull down, to put down, to repress, to rout, to smite, smit, smit, to smite, smote, smitten, to unman), Norwegian (liver), Swedish (liver).

Hey, I wonder what'll happen if I pull this lever. (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn)

You see the gear lever here (Goldfinger; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Au lever du soleil (Humana; performing artist: Fabian)

Le Lever de rideau (1973)

Vi lever kvart vårt liv (1971)

Mästerdetektiven lever farligt (1957)

Lever no Espaço (1957)

Kalle Blomkvist - Mästerdetektiven lever farligt (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Hindustan Lever Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Lever Brothers (Pakistan) Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Benchlearning: Good Examples As a Lever for Development (John Wiley Series in Information Systems) (reference)

• Lever Action: Essays on Liberty (reference)

• Lever of Riches (reference)

• Winchester Lever Action Repeating Firearms : The Models of 1866, 1873 & 1876 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Lever De Rideau [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Screwpull Elegance 3-Piece Lever Model Gift Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Setting up a Raydist tower Preparing the gin pole - basically a large lever arm Party off of wire drag vessels WAINWRIGHT and HILGARD Photograph #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Possibly an early form of plane table. Methode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer : avec toutes sortes d'instrumens & sans instrumens. By Jacques Ozanam. 1750. Plate XVI, page 242. Call Number TA544 .O97 1750. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

An early plane table and other surveying instruments. In: Methode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer : avec toutes sortes d'instrumens & sans instrumens. By Jacques Ozanam. 1750. Plate VI, page 62. Call Number TA544 .O97 1750. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Figure 48. Scotch messenger mounting. Left: before reversing. Right: after reversing. This equipment was probably used by Prince Albert I of Monaco. The design is very similar to that used in the Magnaghi helical mounting, but instead used a messenger activating a lever to invert the reversing thermometer. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A T-6A Texan II like this one crashed Aug. 31 when one of the crew members inadvertently placed the airplane's power control lever in the cutoff position, according to the accident report. The two-person crew, a pilot and an instructor pilot, ejected and.

Exhibit at the NHOTIC of a wagon train with one wagon stuck in the sand and settlers use a lever trying to free it. Credit: Unknown.

[Medical instruments: Kymograph, with muscle lever and signal magnet]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The almighty lever. Credit: Library of Congress.

Subcontracting. Bogie-wheel assembly. Spot facing for a bolt and lock washer that holds a bogie-wheel rubbing plate in place on a lever. The work is being done in the machine shop of a small Eastern subcontractor. Painesville Machine Company. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barnesville, Maryland. This citizen at the community hall has just pulled the lever which parts the curtains and at the same time records his vote on the voting machine in the general election. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I shall have my lever.

He kept his hand on the gear lever, feeling the turning gears through it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Korea

This is a significant lever, since food, housing, health, and general living conditions are much better in Pyongyang than in the rest of the country. (references)

Economic History

India

Hindustan Lever Ltd., a subsidiary of Unilever, has established a biotechnology R&D center in Bangalore employing 200 scientists. (references)

India

Established retail companies in India have also started direct selling operations, the most prominent being Hindustan Lever Limited of the Unilever group. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "lever": actuating lever ♦ adjusting lever ♦ air pump lever ♦ Ball lever ♦ brake lever ♦ clutch lever ♦ Compound lever ♦ control lever ♦ crank lever ♦ disengaging lever ♦ foot lever ♦ gear lever ♦ gearshift lever ♦ hand lever ♦ Hindustan Lever Ltd ♦ lever arm ♦ lever boss ♦ Lever escapement ♦ Lever jack ♦ lever lock ♦ lever of a balance ♦ lever out ♦ lever scale ♦ lever tumbler ♦ lever up ♦ lever watch ♦ operating lever ♦ perpetual lever ♦ pneumatic lever ♦ power lever ♦ pull a lever ♦ push a lever ♦ righting lever ♦ righting lever curve ♦ self timer cocking lever ♦ self timer lever ♦ shift lever ♦ side lever ♦ spark lever ♦ switch lever ♦ throttle lever ♦ tire lever ♦ To be lever than ♦ trip lever ♦ universal lever. Additional references.

Beginning with "lever": lever-arch, lever-arm, lever-brake, lever-controlled, lever-jack, lever-pulling, lever-scales, lever-to-cover, lever-to-passenger.

Ending with "lever": five-lever, gear-lever.

Containing "lever": Side-lever engine.

Afrikaans

optrek (lift, raise). (various references)

Albanian

levë (crow, crowbar, handspike, helper, joystick, pry), qysqi (crow, crowbar), ngritës (elevator), ngre me levë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقبض (grasp, grip, grip handle, haft, handgrip, handle, inlet, lug, panhandle, power outlet, shaft, shank, socket, squeeze, stick), ‏مخل, ‏قلع (gouge, lifting, pull, rip, root, take off), ‏عتلة (crow, crow-bar, spar), ‏إستخرج (educe, elicit, evolve, excavate, extract, mine, quarry, read out, shake), ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), ‏رافعة (derrick, hoist, jack, lift, rig, whip, winch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

средство за морален натиск, служа си с лост, ръчка (ear, grip, gripe, handle, helve, rein, tiller, tommy bar), рамо (arm, leg, shoulder), лост (bar, bolt, clevis, column, crossbar, horizontal bar, pinch, pry, tiller), лом (bar, fracture, pinch), повдигам с лост, дръжка (arm, bail, ear, grip, gripe, haft, handgrip, handle, helve, hold, peduncle, petiole, pull, shank, stem, stock). (various references)

Chinese 

扳手 (spanner, wrench), �"桿 , � 杆. (various references)

Czech

sochor (crowbar, heaver), páka (handle). (various references)

Danish

løfte (affirmation, lift, promise, raise). (various references)

Dutch

oprichten (erect, establish, lift, raise), ophalen (inhale, lift, meet, pick up, raise, take up), heffen (lift, raise), beuren (lift, raise). (various references)

Esperanto

levi (lift, raise). (various references)

Faeroese

lyfta (halyard, lift, raise), reisa (lift, raise), hevja (lift, raise). (various references)

Farsi 

میله اهرم (Handspike), میله (Axle, Bar, Beam, Filament, Gad, Pivot, Rod, Shaft, Slat, Spike, Stem, Stilt, Style), تبدیل به اهرم کردن , اهرم کردن , اهرم (Crow, Crowbar, Handspike, Pry), دیلم (Auger, Crow, Crowbar, Gad, Jimmy, Pry), بااهرم تکان دادن , بااهرم بلندکردن . (various references)

Finnish

vipu, nostokanki, nostaa (draw, hoist, lift, pick up, raise, take up). (various references)

French

levier (levers, Lewis), lever (lever up). (various references)

Frisian

heffe (lift, raise). (various references)

German

hebel (crowbar, hand gear, handle, levers). (various references)

Greek 

μοχλός (guide frame, handle, rod, spreader, swingle-tree, yoke). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ� וף (crane, crowbar, elevator, heaver, hoist, impetus, stimulus, winch, windlass). (various references)

Hungarian

fogantyú (arm, crank, ear, grip, haft, handhold, handle, holder, horn, knob, loop, pull), kar (arm, chorus, faculty, faculty of arts, hand, handle, pinion, quire, school, wing), hatalom (ascendancy, authority, empire, force, hank, hold, leverage, lordship, mastership, mastery, might, potency, power, sway), emeltyű (prize), emelőrúd (balk, crow, crow-bar, pole, pry, purchase), emelőkar (prize, swipe), emelőhatás (leverage), emelőerő (leverage), emelő (elevator, erector, gin, hoist, jack, to lever sg up), befolyás (ascendancy, drag, hank, hold, impact, inflow, influence, leading, leverage, potency, suck, sway). (various references)

Icelandic

lyfta (lift, raise), reisa (lift, raise), hefja (lift, raise). (various references)

Indonesian

pengungkit, pendongkel, gandar (arm of scales, asle of wheel), dongkelan, cungkil (crowbar, rung). (various references)

Italian

leva (call up, conscription, draft, generation, hand gear, levers, levy, notification, prize, roundup, stimulus), alzare (erect, get up, heave, Jack, lift, lift up, pick up, put up, raise, rear, stand up, to raise, turn up, up, uplift). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

レトルト食�"� (Lebanon, Lennon, leverage, liver, packed and sterilised food, rehabilitation, renumber, retort pack, retrospective, retrovirus, rhenium), 梃子 , 梃 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

レバー (liver), て�". (various references)

Korean 

� �버. (various references)

Manx

prisal (leverage, raise), maidjey (bail, bail in stable, bar, bar on doorway, bat, boarding, club, cue, pitprop, pointer, pole, rod, stick, straddle, wooden), dell (argument, argument of play, business, etc., starfish). (various references)

Norwegian

vektstang, spak, jekke. (various references)

Papiamen

subi (ascend, climb, go up, lift, raise), hisa (hoist, hoist up, lift, raise, run up, wind up). (various references)

Pig Latin

everlay.(various references)

Portuguese

alavanca (arm, crow, crowbar, crow-bar, handle, handspike, heaver, jack, pry). (various references)

Romanian

levier, sistem de pârghii, punct de sprijin (fulcrum, hold), punct de reazem, pârghie (pry), mâner de uşã, mâner (gripe, haft, handgrip, handle, helve, hilt, knob, lug, shaft), braţ (arm, armful, brace, channel, fathom, hand, jib, limb, offshoot, strength, sweep, upper arm, upper-arm, whip). (various references)

Russian 

рычаг (arm, handspike, heaver, pry). (various references)

Scottish

lunn (a heaving billow, a staff, an, handle of an oar, staff), tog (brew, build, distil, educate, excite, lift, raise, rear), � rdaich (elevate, exalt, lift, raise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ručica (crank, handle), poluga (bar, boomer, bullion, crank, heaver, ingot, jemmy, purchase), dići polugom. (various references)

Spanish

palanca (bar, crowbar, hand gear, handgrip, handle, influence, leverage, levers, prise, prize, pry, pull, purchase, springboard, stockade, toggle), levantar (adjourn, boost, break up, build, dig up, draw up, elevate, erect, flush, get up, heave, heft, hitch, hoist, hold up, Jack, lift, lift up, pick up, prick, pull up, push up, put up, raise, raise up, rear, ring up, rouse, set up, spring, start, take, tip, to raise, up, wind up). (various references)

Swedish

spak (handspike, manageable), hävstång. (various references)

Thai

ชะแลง, งั�" (force). (various references)

Turkish

lövye, manivela (cantilever, handspike, heaver, lever arm, prise, prize, pry, tappet), kaldıraçla kaldırmak (prise, prize, prize up, pry up, purchase), kaldıraç (handspike, heaver, Jack, prise, prize, pry). (various references)

Ukrainian

рукоятка (brake, grasp, grip, gripe, hilt, shaft, stale), користуватися важелем, важіль (prise, prize, pry, purchase). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái đòn bẩy. (various references)

Welsh

trosol (bar, crowbar, staff), gwif (crowbar). (various references)

clavem, claves, clavi, clavis, clavum, levare, vecte, vectem, vectes, vectibus, vectium. (various references)

levier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "lever": leverage, leveraged, leverages, leveraging, levered, leveret, leverets, levering, levers. (additional references)

Words ending with "lever": cantilever, clever. (additional references)

Words containing "lever": bouleversement, bouleversements, cantilevered, cantilevering, cantilevers, cleverer, cleverest, cleverish, cleverly, cleverness, clevernesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lever" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elever, elsevere, elvet, Elvey, Jever, Kleber, klever, lavar, Lavera, laverd, lavir, lavor, leaer, Lecerf, leder, leera, leerer, leert, leev, leeve, Lefebre, lener, leva, Levar, levea, leved, levere, Levertov, levey, levo, levor, levver, Lewer, lexer, Leyer, livero, liverp, livert, livor, livrer, livyer, lleva, Lleven, Loverd, luver, luvver, Lyver, oever, pever, pevero. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: elver, revel.

-1 letter: ever, leer, reel, veer.

-2 letters: eel, ere, eve, lee, lev, ree, rev, vee.

-3 letters: el, er, re.

+1 letter: clever, delver, elvers, eviler, laveer, leaver, levers, levier, liever, releve, relive, reveal, revels, revile, vealer, veiler, velure.

+2 letters: beveler, cleaver, deliver, delvers, eviller, evolver, haverel, laveers, leavers, leavier, leveler, levered, leveret, leviers, livener, nervule, overlet, overlie, raveled, raveler, releves, relieve, relievo, relived, relives, replevy, resolve, revalue, reveals, reveled, reveler, revelry, reviled, reviler, reviles, revolve, servile, several, shelver, svelter, vealers, vealier, veilers, veliger, velured, velures, verbile, vermeil.