English | German | Russian | Czech
C2

lever English

Meaning lever meaning

What does lever mean?
Definitions in simple English

lever

A lever is a simple tool, a bar resting on a fixed point. If one end of the bar is pushed, the force is used at the other end. A see-saw in a childrens' playground is a simple lever. A lever is a long handle used to operate a machine. The signalman pulled on the lever to change the railway signals. Lever is to use something to do something else. He used his charm as a lever to get past the guards at the gate.

lever

To lever is to move or lift something with lever. She used a long pole to lever the large rock out of the way.

lever

a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum (= pry, jimmy) 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

Synonyms lever synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lever?

Topics lever topics

What do people use lever to talk about?

Conjugation lever conjugation

How do you conjugate lever?

lever · verb

Examples lever examples

How do I use lever in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom put two slices of bread into the toaster and pushed down on the lever.
The screw, the lever, the wedge, the pulley, etc. are called simple machines.
Tom pulled a lever.
I pulled the lever.

Movie subtitles

I'll be the one to pull the stop-lever, Windegger.!
Look out! The lever!
Get away from that lever!
I'm telling you, Blossom, that makes you. the most aggravating female lever had a despise for.
The lever slipped.
And will you tell the jury in what position was the shift lever on the steering wheel?
You testified that the lever on the steering wheel was found pointing to drive while the car was actually in reverse.
Now I ask whether in your opinion. this lever could not have been jarred from one position to the other during the course of the drop?
However. I want it strictly understood that there'll be no undue shouting or cheering. or drunken talk when I pull that lever. on account of it offends the dignity of the occasion.
The lever in front of him controls movement.
At first, I pushed the lever forward very slightly and the laboratory grew faint around me.
I pushed the lever on toward even greater speed.
They never had to beat victims. or pull the lever that released gas into the chambers.
If he's threatening the older one, the younger one may be a lever.
That was the longest night lever lived through, Keyes. and the next day was worse, when the story had broke in the papers. and they started talking about it at the office. and the day after that, when you started digging into it.
All you do is work the lever and pull the trigger.
And pull the choke lever.
I am giving you the honour of pulling the lever that will drop these traitors into eternity.
Once we're in the air. Keep a man standing by the lever here on both taking off and landing, so nobody catches a coat on it or anything.
Well, they wouldn't listen to me and the lever was right there, so I just. pulled it.
They wouldn't listen to me. The lever was just right there. So I just.
They were going to take off, although he told them they shouldn't. The lever was right there. He just pulled it.
So that rod, connected to the gearshift lever on the steering post, comes down here and is coupled to the bell crank here by a cotter pin.
It was in reverse. And will you tell the jury in what position was the shift lever on the steering wheel?
You testified the lever on the steering wheel was found pointing to drive while the car was actually in reverse.
Where's the point lever?
I can't let go of this lever!
As a token of thanks for your help, without which I would never have succeeded, I am giving you the honour of pulling the lever that will drop these traitors into eternity.
The magician showed Achmed the lever in the horse's head and suddenly, up, up he flew on the magic horse.
Finally, Achmed found a lever by the horse's tail and suddenly, the horse began to descend.
But if I were to remove this cotter pin and uncouple this shifting rod, a very simple operation, as you can see, then no matter what you do with the shift lever, the bell crank remains as it was, in drive, neutral or reverse, wherever it may happen to be.
Now I ask whether, in your opinion, this lever could not have been jarred from one position to the other - during the course of the drop?
If I push the lever to the right, it sounds.. to the left, it stops.
Oh. Well, in that case, just pull that little red lever.
This was the lever to make you give me the money.
What is this lever for?

News and current affairs

If monetary policy is not effective, the only lever the American government has to manage its economy is fiscal policy: changes in the government's tax and spending plans to change the government's direct contribution to aggregate demand.
Instead, the vocation of Europe in the course of the twenty-first century should be to become the lever of step-by-step inter-continental convergence and unification.
Secular, military, and Mubarak-era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties' democratic exercise of power.
The first lever is budgetary: Governments that enjoy fiscal space should spend on economically sound projects.
The second lever for investment is regulatory in nature.
The third lever is financial.
The SDGs will not ensure global action, but, as US President John F. Kennedy once said about UN agreements, they can serve as a lever to help move the world toward action.
The lever for this process will continue to be the EU's central bureaucracy, the mechanism that formulates the member states' common interests and whose field of action is determined by loose, and periodic, inter-governmental collaboration.
The third lever is financial. Investment demand has slackened not because interest rates are too high, but because there is not enough risk appetite within the banking system.
The Internet is a seminal lever in this process.
It is therefore no surprise that Putin has sought to use this lever to rebuild Russia's power and to revise the post-Soviet order.
Trade relations provide another all-important lever.
The Kremlin's economic woes have to be used as a lever to make Russian foreign policy less obstructionist.

Are you looking for...?