lever
lever is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, adverb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: More agreeable; more pleasing. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. More agreeable; more pleasing.
- adverb. Rather.
- noun. 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. Specif., 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.
- noun. A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
- noun. An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
- noun. a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
- noun. a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
- noun. a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
- verb. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open: "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
"The burglar jimmied the lock"
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Common word forms
levers, levered, leverer, levering
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