Pedal

Definitions: Pedal

Pedal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the feet; "the word for a pedal extremity is `foot'".

Noun

1. A sustained bass note.

2. A lever that is operated with the foot.

Verb

1. Ride a bicycle.

2. Operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument.

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

Date "pedal" was first used: 1611. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

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

PEDAL

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Pedal

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.

Crosswords: Pedal

Albanian (pedal, treadle), Danish (pedal), German (pedal), Indonesian (pedal), Norwegian (pedal), Papiamen (pedal), Portuguese (pedal, pedant, treadle), Spanish (pedal, treadle), Swedish (pedal), Turkish (pedal, treadle).

The car's shadow's going the wrong way, the steering wheel's on the wrong side, there's no brake pedal, the words in the mirror should be backwards, the man's watch wouldn't say twelve o'clock if he was looking at a sunset, and I have red paint on my ass. That's right -- red paint all over my ass! (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

I push the pedal, thoughts of your stilleto ("Between Me and You"; performing artist: Ja Rule)

Campeões do Pedal (1932)

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References

• The World Market for Doll Carriages and Wheeled Toys Designed to Be Ridden by Children, Bicycles, Tricycles, Scooters, and Pedal Cars: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Evolution of the Pedal Car Volume #1 (reference)

• Pedal Car Restoration and Price Guide (reference)

• Pedal Cars (reference)

• Pedal Cars: Chasing the Kidillac (reference)

• Pedal Power (Pee Wee Scouts, No 35) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Pedal (reference)

• Pedal Steel Newsletter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Learn To Play Pedal Steel Guitar (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Slider: Ambient Excursions For Pedal Steel Guitar (reference)

• The Gas Pedal (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Pedal to the Metal (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Kreg K-200 Foot Pedal Operated Pneumatic Automatic Air Clamp (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.

Feet of Spanish-American woman on the pedal of loom. WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Tom pulled the iron jack handle from under the seat and laid it on the floor, under the brake pedal.

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Health

Tumor suppressor genes are like the brake pedal of an automobile. (references)

To use a simple metaphor, the growth-control pathway is like the gas pedal of an automobile. (references)

The presence of an oncogene is like having a gas pedal that is stuck to the floorboard, causing the cell to continually grow and divide. (references)

Business

Internal and external armored doors, safety boxes, pedal or button for alarm activation (panic button), combination locks and multiple keys protected against explosives. (references)

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

Expressions using "pedal": accelerator pedal ♦ back pedal ♦ brake pedal ♦ clutch pedal ♦ foot pedal ♦ gas pedal ♦ loud pedal ♦ pedal bin ♦ pedal board ♦ pedal boat ♦ pedal bracket ♦ pedal brake ♦ pedal car ♦ pedal curve ♦ pedal cyclist ♦ pedal dustbin ♦ pedal extremity ♦ pedal note ♦ pedal organ ♦ pedal point ♦ pedal pusher ♦ pedal pushers ♦ pedal surface ♦ pedal switch ♦ shift pedal ♦ soft pedal ♦ sustaining pedal. Additional references.

Beginning with "pedal": pedal-bin, pedal-bins, pedal-board, pedal-car, pedal-cycles, pedal-cyclists, pedal-extension, pedal-less, pedal-operated, pedal-point, pedal-power, pedal-powered, pedal-pushers, pedal-tones, pedal-to-the-metal.

Ending with "pedal": back-pedal.

Containing "pedal": back-pedal brake.

Afrikaan

akselerator (accelerator, accelerator pedal). (various references)

Albanian

pedaloj, pedal (treadle), shtyp pedalin, ngas biçikletën (bicycle, cycle), me pedale, këmbëz (leg, trigger), i këmbës. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قدمي (pedicure, primaeval, primeval), ‏وطية, ‏ضغط على الدواس, ‏إستعمل دواسة, ‏ركب دراجة (bicycle, bike, cycle), ‏دواسي, ‏دواسة, ‏دعسة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

карам велосипед (bike, wheel), оргелпункт, натискам педалите на, на краката, лежащ в баса тон, педал (treadle). (various references)

Chinese 

脚蹬. (various references)

Czech

pedál (treadle), nožní páka, nožní, šlapat pedály. (various references)

Danish

pedal. (various references)

Dutch

trappen (bustards, kick, steps), peddelen (paddle), pedaal (pedal used in dance-bands and jazz-bands, treadle). (various references)

Esperanto

pedalo, pedali. (various references)

Farsi 

پازدن (Foot, Leg), پاءی , پدال , وابسته به رکاب , جاپاءی (Treadle), رکاب زدن . (various references)

Finnish

poljin (foot pedal, treadle). (various references)

French

pédale. (various references)

German

Pedal. (various references)

Greek 

πετάλι (tinsel). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"רס (foothold, stepping, treading), של �"ר�'ל, פ�"ל, �"וש�" (treadle). (various references)

Hungarian

pedál (treadle). (various references)

Indonesian

pedal, injakan (running board, stirrup), dayung (dipper, oar), berkayuh (paddle), berdayung. (various references)

Italian

pedale (treadle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

足掛け (considering fractional periods of time as a whole for purposes of calculation, foothold), 踏み板 (footboard, treadle), ペスト菌 (pedantic, pedantism, pedantry, pessary, pet, PET bottle, pet name, petticoat, petticoat government, petting, petunia, plague bacillus). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ペダル , ふみいた (footboard, treadle), あしかけ (considering fractional periods of time as a whole for purposes of calculation, foothold). (various references)

Korean 

페달. (various references)

Manx

obbraghey ny coshallyn, coshal (treadle), cassagh (footed, objective, spiral). (various references)

Norwegian

pedal. (various references)

Papiamen

pedal. (various references)

Pig Latin

edalpay

Portuguese

podal, pedalar, pedal de simples efeito, pedal (pedant, treadle), pedagogia (pedagogue). (various references)

Romanian

pedalã (stop, treadle), pedala, suport (bolster, carriage, chuck, foot, holdfast, Jack, leg, mat, Mount, pad, plinth, prop, puncheon, reliance, shore, stanchion, stand, steady, stem, support), merge cu bicicletã (cycle, wheel), de picior. (various references)

Russian 

работать педалями, ножной рычаг, ножной, педальный, педаль (treadle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pedala, voziti bicikl (cycle, ride a bicycle), nožni (foot, leg). (various references)

Spanish

pedal (treadle). (various references)

Swedish

pedal, trampa (clump, foot-slog, stamp, tramp, trample, tread). (various references)

Turkish

pedallı, pedalla çalıştırmak (treadle), pedala basmak, pedal çevirmek (cycle, wheel), pedal (treadle), bisiklete binmek (bicycle, bike, cycle, ride a bicyele, ride on a bicyele). (various references)

Turkmen 

pedal (r). (various references)

Ukranian 

їхати на велосипеді, ножний, натискати на педаль, педальний, педаль (footboard, treadle). (various references)

pedale. (various references)

pedale. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pedal": pedaled, pedalfer, pedalfers, pedalier, pedaliers, pedaling, pedalled, pedalling, pedalo, pedalos, pedals. (additional references)

Words ending with "pedal": backpedal, bipedal, overpedal, quadrupedal, tripedal. (additional references)

Words containing "pedal": backpedaled, backpedaling, backpedalled, backpedalling, backpedals, bipedalism, bipedalisms, bipedalities, bipedality, bipedally, overpedaled, overpedaling, overpedalled, overpedalling, overpedals, sesquipedalian. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pedal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apedale, Bedall, Beddall, bpdal, dedal, depal, Gedali, ledal, Mppda, Oppdal, pada, Padam, padel, pamal, pcdma, pdeal, pead, Peadar, peall, peda, pedale, Pedan, peddal, pede, pedel, Pedelow, Pedi, pedile, pedis, pedle, Pedoe, pedule, Pedwar, pendal, pendel, Pendil, pendle, peral, perdal, perdas, pexa, pexal, Pezdek, Pidar, Piedad, piral, podal, podar, podel, Poudyal, Predrag, Psda, puda, Pundijl, Spiddal, vedal, Yeldall. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: padle, paled, plead.

-1 letter: aped, dale, deal, lade, lead, leap, pale, peal, plea, pled.

-2 letters: ale, alp, ape, dal, dap, del, eld, lad, lap, lea, led, pad, pal, pea, ped.

-3 letters: ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la, pa, pe.

+1 letter: aliped, dapple, dewlap, elapid, lamped, lapped, lapsed, leaped, paddle, padles, palled, palmed, parled, pealed, pedalo, pedals, pedlar, placed, planed, plated, played, pleads, pleiad.

+2 letters: adeptly, alipeds, applied, bedlamp, bipedal, clamped, clapped, clasped, dappled, dapples, deplane, deposal, dewlaps, dupable, elapids, elapsed, empaled, flapped, galoped, helipad, impaled, implead, lapeled, lapides, leopard, oedipal, paddled, paddler, paddles, palaced, palsied, paneled, paroled, pearled, pedaled, pedalos, pedlars, pedlary, pedocal, petaled, piebald, plagued, plaided, plained, plaited, planked, planned, planted, plashed, platted, pleaded, pleader, pleased, pleated, pleiads, polkaed, predial, psalmed, ralphed, replead, sampled, scalped, sepaled, slapped, spalled, splayed, stapled, tadpole, taliped.

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