lever

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
bar
• Hyponyms:
compound lever, crowbar, wrecking bar, pry, pry bar,
gun trigger, trigger, hand throttle, key, peavey, peavy,
cant dog, dog hook, pedal, treadle, foot pedal, foot lever,
pinch bar, ripping bar, rocker arm, valve rocker, spark lever, stick,
control stick, joystick, tappet, tiller, tire iron, tire tool
• Part Meronyms:
fulcrum
2. a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
• Hypernyms:
machine, simple machine
3. a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
• Syn:
lever tumbler
• Hypernyms:
tumbler
• Part Holonyms:
lever lock

II - verb

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
• Syn:
pry, prise, prize, jimmy
• Derivationally related forms:
jimmy (for: jimmy), leverage, pry (for: pry)
• Hypernyms:
open, open up
• Entailment:
loosen, loose
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  lever tumbler, pry, prise, prize, jimmy