Lever

Noun

 * 1)  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; &mdash; 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)  A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
 * 5)  An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.

Verb

 * 1)  To move with a lever.
 * ''With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
 * 1)   To use, operate like a lever.
 * 2)  To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.

Derived terms

 * leverage
 * compound lever
 * lever escapement
 * lever jack
 * lever watch
 * universal lever

Adverb

 * 1)  Rather.
 * 2) * 1530, John Heywood, The Four PP
 * for I had lever be without ye / Then have suche besines about ye
 * 1) * 1537, William Tyndale et al, "Jonah", in The Byble
 * Now therefore take my life from me, for I had lever die then live.
 * 1) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene
 * For lever had I die than see his deadly face.

Verbs for Lever
adjust—; apply—; brace—; heave out with —; jack  with—;  manipulate—;  yank (colloq.)—; —disembowels; —dislodges; — elevates; —expels; —lifts; '—overthrows; pries open; —raises.

Thesaurus
Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, appliance, bar, beam, boom, cant hook, claw bar, contrivance, crab, crane, crank, creature, crow, crowbar, derrick, device, dummy, dupe, erector, forklift, gantry crane, get a foothold, get leverage, go-between, handmaid, handmaiden, handspike, hoist, hydraulic tailgate, implement, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, iron crow, jack, jackscrew, jimmy, lift, lifter, limb, marlinespike, mechanism, mediator, medium, midwife, minion, organ, outrigger, pawn, peavey, pedal, pinch bar, plaything, prize, pry, puppet, ripping bar, servant, slave, spar, stooge, tackle, tool, toy, treadle, vehicle, wedge, windlass, wrecking bar

Etymology 1
From leveor:, leveur: <  levator: < levare:, past part. levatus:; see levant. Compare alleviate, elevate, leaven.

Etymology 2
From comparative of leve: of Germanic origin (compare German lieb:) or lief:.

Noun

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 * Macedonian: лост
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 * Turkish: kaldıraç


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 * : hefboom
 * Ido: levero

Adverb

 * Dutch: eer(der), liever

Anagrams

 * elver
 * revel

Verb

 * 1) to raise; to lift
 * 2)  to get up

Noun

 * 1) liver

Etymology 1
From lifr:.

Etymology 2
See leve:.

Etymology 3
See levere:.

Noun

 * 1)  The organ liver
 * 2) An edible animal liver as a dish or culinary ingredient

Derived terms

 * (by species) ganzenlever, kalfslever, kippenlever, rundslever, varkenslever
 * leverbloem
 * leverbotziekte
 * leverextract
 * leverkaas
 * leverkleurig
 * leverpastei
 * levertraan
 * levertumor
 * leverworst
 * leverziekte

Etymology 1
From *undefined: *undefined:, from. Germanic, cognate with liver, German Leber, Norwegian and Swedish lever etc.

Etymology 2
cognate with deliver, German liefern

Verb

 * 1)  to raise, to lift
 * 2)  to rise
 * 3)  to get up (out of bed)
 * ''Je me lève, je me lave.
 * ''I get up, I wash.

Antonyms

 * baisser
 * s'abaisser
 * se coucher, s'allonger

Related terms

 * levage
 * levant, Levant, Levantin
 * levé
 * lève
 * lève-Dieu
 * levée
 * se lever
 * lever du soleil
 * lève-tard
 * leveur
 * levure

Noun

 * 1) the act of getting up in the morning

Etymology
From levo: < levis:

Anagrams

 * lèvre

Verb

 * 1)  To knock down

Adverb

 * 1) Rather.
 *  For him was lever have at his bed's head Twenty bookes, clad in black or red, . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. &mdash;The Cantebury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
 * But lever than this worldés good She would have wist how that it stood &mdash;Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, John Gower.

Noun

 * 1)  A liver

Verb

 * 1) present tense of ', '

Etymology
From lifr:, cognate with liver, Dutch, German , Swedish.

Verb

 * 1) to lift (up)

Etymology
levo:

Descendants

 * French:

Noun

 * 1)  a liver

Etymology 1
Germanic, cognate with liver, Dutch lever, German Leber, Norwegian