lever

lever

englanti
  1. vipu

  2. keino

Liittyvät sanat: lever du soleil

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lever

yhdistelmävipu, sorkkarauta, liipaisin, käsivipu, kanki.

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Englannin sanakirja

lever (englanti > suomi)

  1. vipu

  2. vivuta

  3. vivuttaa

lever englanniksi

  1. puhekieltä 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.

  2. Specifically, 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.

  3. A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).

  4. puhekieltä A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.

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  6. puhekieltä An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.

  7. puhekieltä To move with a leverNoun lever.

  8. 1938, (w), (w), Chapter 7,http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201111.txt

  9. Someone found a pick and levered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming.

    ''With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.

  10. puhekieltä To use, operate or move (something) like a leverNoun lever (physically).

  11. 1961, (w), (w), Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1,

  12. Suddenly he had levered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist.
  13. puhekieltä To use (something) like a leverNoun lever (in an abstract sense).

  14. 2001, (w), “Bagging the Butcher,” w:Time (Magazine)|Time, 9 April, 2001,http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,999627,00.html

  15. He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism.
  16. 2013, (w), “Biographies of the year — review,” (w), 8 December, 2013,https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/08/biographies-of-the-year-2013-review

  17. Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope of levering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche.
  18. puhekieltä To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.

  19. (quote-journal)

  20. puhekieltä rather Rather.

  21. 1530, w:John Heywood|John Heywood, The Four PP

  22. for I had lever be without ye / Then have suche besines about ye
  23. 1537, w:William Tyndale|William Tyndale et al, "Jonah", in w:Tyndale Bible|The Byble

  24. Now therefore take my life from me, for I had lever die then live.
  25. 1590, w:Edmund Spenser|Edmund Spenser, w:The Faery Queene|The Faery Queene

  26. For lever had I die than see his deadly face.
  27. puhekieltä A levee.

  28. 1742, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delanys Letters'', II.191:

  29. We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.
  30. 2011, Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement, 21 Sep 2011:

  31. Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.
  32. liver

  33. (present tense of)

  34. (imperative of)

  35. puhekieltä liver

  36. edible animal liver as a dish or culinary ingredient

  37. (nl-verb form of)

  38. puhekieltä to raise, to lift

  39. puhekieltä to rise, to stand up

  40. puhekieltä to get up (out of bed)

  41. ''Je me lève, je me lave.

    ''I get up, I wash.

  42. puhekieltä to clear, to lift

  43. the act of getting up in the morning

  44. puhekieltä to knock down

  45. (inflection of)

  46. rather Rather.

  47. For him was lever have at his beds head
    Twenty bookes, clad in black or red,
    . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie.The Canterbury Tales'', Geoffrey Chaucer

    But lever than this worldés good
    She would have wist how that it stood
    Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, John Gower.

  48. to lift

  49. puhekieltä a liver

  50. liver (eaten as food)

  51. (form of)

  52. to lift (up)

  53. puhekieltä to get up (get out of bed)

  54. loaf, bread

  55. (sv-verb-form-pre)

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