A lever A lever diagram FromMiddle English lever levore levour Old French leveor leveur ( “ a lifter, lever (alsoOld French French levier ” ) , fromLatin levātor ( “ a lifter ” ) , fromlevō ( “ to raise ” ) .Doublet oflevator
lever (plural levers
( mechanics ) rigid piece which is capable ofturning about one point, oraxis (fulcrum ), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.Specifically, abar 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.1952 Railway Magazine , page617 :Retractable steps and handrails are provided on each side of the cars. The steps, which are under the control of the guard, are operated by handlevers in the entrance vestibule.
A small such piece totrigger orcontrol a mechanical device (like aswitch or abutton ). ( mechanics ) bar , as acapstan bar , applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.2012 March,Henry Petroski , “Opening Doors”, inAmerican Scientist [1] 100 , number 2, pages112–3 :A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum oflevers , with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
( mechanics ) arm on arock shaft , to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.( obsolete , except in generalized senses below) crowbar .1613 John Marston , William Barksted,The Insatiate Countess , IV.1:My lord, I brained him with alever my neighbour lent me, and he stood by and cried, ‘Strike home, old boy!’
rigid piece
Afrikaans:hefboom Albanian:lloz (sq) m levë (sq) f Arabic:مُخْل m ( muḵl ) ,مُحْل m ( muḥl ) ,عَتَلَة f ( ʕatala ) ,رَافِعَة f ( rāfiʕa ) Armenian:լծակ (hy) ( lcak ) Azerbaijani:ling Bashkir:һалмауыр ( halmawır ) Basque:palanka altxaprima Belarusian:падва́жнік m ( padvážnik ) ,вага́р m ( vahár ) ,рыча́г m ( ryčáh ) Bengali:লিভার (bn) ( libhar ) Bulgarian:лост (bg) m ( lost ) Burmese:ကုတ် (my) ( kut ) Catalan:alçaprem (ca) m palanca (ca) f Central Melanau:tuwaih suwil Chinese:Mandarin:槓桿 / 杠杆 (zh) ( gànggǎn ) Classical Nahuatl:cuammītl Czech:páka (cs) f Danish:vægtstang (da) c Dutch:hefboom (nl) m Esperanto:baskulo levilo Estonian:kang (et) Finnish:vipu (fi) French:levier (fr) m Galician:cambón (gl) m panca (gl) f perpau m palferro m alzaprema f palastra f mourón (gl) m gurra f bimbarra f Georgian:ბერკეტი ( berḳeṭi ) German:Hebel (de) m Greek:μοχλός (el) m ( mochlós ) Ancient:μοχλός m ( mokhlós ) Gujarati:ઉચ્ચાલક ( uccālak ) Hebrew:מָנוֹף (he) m ( manóf ) Hindi:उत्तोलक m ( uttolak ) ,लीवर (hi) m ( līvar ) Hungarian:emelő (hu) ,emelőrúd (hu) Icelandic:vogarstöng f lyftistöng f Indonesian:tuas (id) ,pengungkit (id) Irish:luamhán m Italian:leva (it) f Japanese:梃子 (ja) ( てこ, teko ) Kazakh:иінтірек ( iıntırek ) Khmer:គម្នាស់ ( kumnŏəh ) ,ដងថ្លឹង ( dɑngthləng ) Korean:지레 (ko) ( jire ) Kyrgyz:рычаг ( rıcag ) Lao:ລີ້ນ (lo) ( līn ) ,ຊະແລງ ( sa lǣng ) ,ໄມ້ງັດ ( mai ngat ) Latin:vectis (la) m Latvian:svira f Lithuanian:svirtis m svertas m Macedonian:лост m ( lost ) Malay:tuil (ms) ,tuas pengumpil pengungkil pengungkit Malayalam:ഉത്തോലകം (ml) ( uttōlakaṁ ) Maori:hua (mi) ,tūwhiti kauwhiti Mongolian:Cyrillic:хөшүүрэг (mn) ( xöšüüreg ) Newar:थिँभः ( thĩbha: ) Norwegian:Bokmål:vektstang m or f Nynorsk:vektstong f Pashto:رافعه (ps) f ( rāfe'á ) ,اړم m ( aṛám ) ,اړمی m ( aramáy ) ,خريز m ( xriz ) ,دغری m ( daǧǝ́ray ) ,دورسي m ( duresí ) Persian:اهرم (fa) ( ahrom ) Polish:dźwignia (pl) f drążek (pl) m lewar (pl) m wajcha (pl) f Portuguese:alavanca (pt) f Romanian:pârghie (ro) f Russian:рыча́г (ru) m ( ryčág ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:по̀луга f Roman:pòluga (sh) f Slovak:páka f Slovene:vzvod (sl) m Spanish:palanca (es) f Swedish:hävstång (sv) c Tagalog:dalawit Tajik:фашанг ( fašang ) ,фишанг ( fišang ) ,дастак ( dastak ) Tamil:நெம்புகோல் (ta) ( nempukōl ) Telugu:తులాదండము (te) ( tulādaṇḍamu ) Thai:คาน (th) ( kaan ) Turkish:kaldıraç (tr) Turkmen:leňňer Ukrainian:ва́жіль (uk) m ( vážilʹ ) ,підо́йма f ( pidójma ) ,підва́га f ( pidváha ) Urdu:لیور m ( līvar ) Uzbek:pishang (uz) ,dastak (uz) ,richag (uz) Vietnamese:đòn bẩy Walloon:djîsse (wa) f levî (wa) m West Frisian:hefbeam c hefaerm c
small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device
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lever (third-person singular simple present levers present participle levering simple past and past participle levered
( transitive ) move with alever .With great effort and a big crowbar I managed tolever the beam off the floor.
1938 George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VII, inHomage to Catalonia Secker & Warburg ,→OCLC Someone found a pick andlevered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming.
( figuratively , transitive ) use ,operate ormove (something) like alever (physically).1950 Norman Lindsay ,Dust or Polish? 150 :Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches andlevered herself upright after an ungainly struggle.
1961 V. S. Naipaul ,A House for Mr Biswas 2001 , Part Two, Chapter 1:Suddenly he hadlevered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist.
2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, inSCP Foundation [2] the original on22 May 2024 :The guard at the door coughed up blood, and died instantly. Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord. Shelevered him off the front stoop and into the bushes, then stood up on the tips of her toes to peer through the window in the door.
( figuratively , transitive ) use (something) like alever (in an abstract sense).2001 April 9,Joshua Cooper Ramo , “Bagging the Butcher ”, inTime He was a man wholevered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism.
2013 December 8,Robert McCrum , “Biographies of the year — review ”, inThe Guardian Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope oflevering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche.
( chiefly UK , finance ) increase theshare ofdebt in thecapitalization of a business.1989 June 26, “Corporate America wants its privacy”, inMinneapolis Star-Tribune :"The equity holders want you to 'lever up,' use as much debt as you can," said David Stanley, chairman of Kansas City-based Payless Cashways,
finance: to increase the share of debt
FromMiddle English lever leve leef ( “ dear, beloved, lief ” ) , equivalent tolief -er German lieber ( “ rather ” ) .
lever (notcomparable )
( obsolete ) Rather .[ 1545 ?] John Heywood ,The Playe Called The Foure PP [ … ] [ … ] Wyllyam Myddylton,→OCLC The Play Called The Four PP [ … ] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London; Edinburgh: [ … ] T. C. & E. C. Jack, [ … ] 1908 ,→OCLC signature [E.ii.], verso :The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I hadleuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.
Borrowed fromFrench lever
lever (plural levers
( rare ) levee .1742 Mrs. Delany's Letters ,II.191 :We do not appear at Phœbus'sLevér .
2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, inTimes Literary Supplement :Louis XIV’s day began with alever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.
“lever ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “lever ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC ^ “lever ”, inLexico Dictionary.com ;Oxford University Press ,2019–2022 ^ “lever ”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster , 1996–present. ^ “lever ”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ,2016 ,→ISBN FromOld Danish liuær Old Norse lifr Proto-Germanic *librō English liver German Leber *yókʷr̥ Ancient Greek ἧπαρ ( hêpar ) andLatin iecur
lever c singular definite leveren plural indefinite levere
liver See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
lever
present ofleve See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
leveror levér
imperative oflevere FromMiddle Dutch lēvere Old Dutch *levara Proto-West Germanic *libru Proto-Germanic *librō
lever f plural levers diminutive levertje n
liver edible animal liver as adish or culinary ingredient See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
lever
inflection ofleveren first-person singular present indicative (in case ofinversion )second-person singular present indicative imperative Inherited fromMiddle French lever Old French lever Latin levāre ( “ to lift; to lighten, relieve ” ) , fromlevis ( “ light, not heavy ” ) .
lever
( transitive ) raise ,lift Antonym: baisser ( reflexive ) rise ,stand upAntonym: s'abaisser ( reflexive , of celestial bodies) rise ,come upAntonym: secoucher Le Soleilse lève à l'est et se couche à l'ouest. ―The Sunrises in the East and sets in the West. ( reflexive ) get up (out of bed)Antonyms: se coucher s'allonger Jeme lève , je me lave. ―Iget up , I wash. ( reflexive , of fog, rain, etc.) clear ,lift This verb is conjugated likeparler -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes-è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa-e- , as in the third-person singular present indicativeil lève and the third-person singular future indicativeil lèvera .
infinitive simple lever compound avoir present participle orgerund 1 simple levant /lə.vɑ̃/ compound ayant past participle levé /lə.ve/ singular plural first second third first second third indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles (simple present lève /lɛv/ lèves /lɛv/ lève /lɛv/ levons /lə.vɔ̃/ levez /lə.ve/ lèvent /lɛv/ imperfect levais /lə.vɛ/ levais /lə.vɛ/ levait /lə.vɛ/ levions /lə.vjɔ̃/ leviez /lə.vje/ levaient /lə.vɛ/ past historic 2 levai /lə.ve/ levas /lə.va/ leva /lə.va/ levâmes /lə.vam/ levâtes /lə.vat/ levèrent /lə.vɛʁ/ future lèverai /lɛ.vʁe/ or/le.vʁe/ lèveras /lɛ.vʁa/ or/le.vʁa/ lèvera /lɛ.vʁa/ or/le.vʁa/ lèverons /lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ or/le.vʁɔ̃/ lèverez /lɛ.vʁe/ or/le.vʁe/ lèveront /lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ or/le.vʁɔ̃/ conditional lèverais /lɛ.vʁɛ/ or/le.vʁɛ/ lèverais /lɛ.vʁɛ/ or/le.vʁɛ/ lèverait /lɛ.vʁɛ/ or/le.vʁɛ/ lèverions /lɛ.və.ʁjɔ̃/ or/le.və.ʁjɔ̃/ lèveriez /lɛ.və.ʁje/ or/le.və.ʁje/ lèveraient /lɛ.vʁɛ/ or/le.vʁɛ/ (compound present perfect present indicative ofavoir pluperfect imperfect indicative ofavoir past anterior 2 past historic ofavoir future perfect future ofavoir conditional perfect conditional ofavoir subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles (simple present lève /lɛv/ lèves /lɛv/ lève /lɛv/ levions /lə.vjɔ̃/ leviez /lə.vje/ lèvent /lɛv/ imperfect 2 levasse /lə.vas/ levasses /lə.vas/ levât /lə.va/ levassions /lə.va.sjɔ̃/ levassiez /lə.va.sje/ levassent /lə.vas/ (compound past present subjunctive ofavoir pluperfect 2 imperfect subjunctive ofavoir imperative – tu – nous vous – simple — lève /lɛv/ — levons /lə.vɔ̃/ levez /lə.ve/ — compound — simple imperative ofavoir — simple imperative ofavoir simple imperative ofavoir — 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen 2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French , pp.77 ,78 ,79 ,81 ).
lever m plural levers
the act ofgetting up in themorning le- ver
IPA (key ) : [ˈlɛvɛr] Hyphenation:le‧ver Rhymes:-ɛr lever
( transitive ) knock down Conjugation oflever Click for archaic forms 1st person sg 2nd person sginformal 3rd person sg, sg formal 1st person pl 2nd person plinformal 3rd person pl, pl formal indicative indicative present indef. leverek leversz lever leverünk levertek levernek def. leverem levered leveri leverjük leveritek leverik 2nd obj leverlek past indef. levertem levertél levert levertünk levertetek levertek def. levertem leverted leverte levertük levertétek leverték 2nd obj levertelek future Future is expressed with a present-tense verb with a completion-marking prefix and/or a time adverb, or—more explicitly—with the infinitive plus the conjugated auxiliary verbfog, e.g.le fog verni.
archaic indef. leverék leverél levere leverénk leverétek leverének def. leverém leveréd leveré leverénk leverétek leverék 2nd obj leverélek archaic past Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed byvala (volt), e.g.lever vala,levert archaic future indef. leverendek leverendesz leverend leverendünk leverendetek leverendenek def. leverendem leverended leverendi leverendjük leverenditek leverendik 2nd obj leverendelek conditional present indef. levernék levernél leverne levernénk levernétek levernének def. leverném levernéd leverné levernénk (or levernők levernétek levernék 2nd obj levernélek past Indicative past forms followed byvolna, e.g.levert subjunctive subjunctive present indef. leverjek leverj or leverjél leverjen leverjünk leverjetek leverjenek def. leverjem leverd or leverjed leverje leverjük leverjétek leverjék 2nd obj leverjelek (archaic) past Indicative past forms followed bylégyen, e.g.levert infinitive leverni levernem leverned levernie levernünk levernetek leverniük other verbal noun present part. past part. future part. adverbial participle causative leverés leverő levert leverendő leverve levervén leveret The archaic passive conjugation had the same-(t)at/-(t)et suffix as the causative, followed by-ik in the 3rd-person singular -ik verbs).The prefix can split from the verb stem, e.g.nem ver le or le is ver.
lever in Géza Bárczi ,László Országh ,et al. , editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN . FromDutch lever
lèvêr (plural lever -lever
liver Synonym: ( more common ) hati Borrowed fromDutch leveren ( “ to deliver ” ) .
lever (active melever passive dilever
( colloquial , rare ) send goods; todeliver lēver
first-person singular present passive subjunctive oflēvō Comparative ofleve ( “ dear ” ) of Germanic origin (compareGerman lieb lief
lever
Rather . For him waslever have at his bed's head —The Canterbury Tales , Geoffrey ChaucerButlever than this worldés good —Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins , John Gower.lever
alternative form oflyvere ( “ liver ” ) lever
alternative form oflyvere ( “ living being ” ) FromOld French lever
lever
tolift Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive. Conjugation oflever
infinitive simple lever compound avoir present participle 1 orgerund 2 simple levant compound present participle or gerund ofavoir past participle levé singular plural first second third first second third indicative ie (i’) tu il, elle nous vous ilz, elles (simple present leve leves leve levons levez levent imperfect levois levoys levois levoys levoit levoyt levions levyons leviez levyez levoient levoyent past historic leva levas leva levasmes levastes leverent future leverai leveray leveras levera leverons leverez leveront conditional leverois leveroys leverois leveroys leveroit leveroyt leverions leveryons leveriez leveryez leveroient leveroyent (compound present perfect present indicative ofavoir pluperfect imperfect indicative ofavoir past anterior past historic ofavoir future perfect future ofavoir conditional perfect conditional ofavoir subjunctive que ie (i’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ilz, qu’elles (simple present leve leves leve levons levez levent imperfect levasse levasses levast levassions levassiez levassent (compound past present subjunctive ofavoir pluperfect imperfect subjunctive ofavoir imperative – tu – nous vous – simple — leve — levons levez — compound — simple imperative ofavoir — simple imperative ofavoir simple imperative ofavoir — 1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995],Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée , p.179 ). TheFrench Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with prepositionen Modern French , although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995],op. cit. , p.180 ).
Godefroy, Frédéric ,Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIX e auXV e siècle (1881)lever , supplement)This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with theIPA then please add some!
FromOld Norse lifr Proto-Germanic *librō Proto-Indo-European *leyp- ( “ to smudge, stick ” ) , from*ley- ( “ to be slimy, be sticky, glide ” ) .
lever m or f definite singular leveren or levra indefinite plural levere or levre or levrer definite plural leverne or levrene
( anatomy ) liver liver (eaten as food )lever
present tense ofleve imperative oflevere FromOld Norse lifr Proto-Germanic *librō Proto-Indo-European *leyp- ( “ to smudge, stick ” ) , from*ley- ( “ to be slimy, be sticky, glide ” ) . Akin toEnglish liver
lever f definite singular levra indefinite plural levrar or levrer definite plural levrane or levrene
( anatomy ) liver liver ( eaten as food ) lever
present ofleve FromLatin lēvāre
lever
tolift (up) ( reflexive , se lever) get up (get out of bed)-er -v , *-vs , *-vt are modified tof ,s ,t . This verb has a stressed present stemliev distinct from the unstressed stemlev . Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple compound infinitive lever avoir levé gerund enlevant gerund ofavoir present participle levant past participle levé person singular plural first second third first second third indicative jo tu il nos vos il simple present lief lieves lieve levons levez lievent imperfect levoie leveie levoe leveve levoies leveies levoes leveves levoit leveit levot leveve leviiens leviens leviiez leviez levoient leveient levoent levevent preterite levai levas leva levames levastes leverent future leverai leveras levera leverons leveroiz levereiz leverez leveront conditional leveroie levereie leveroies levereies leveroit levereit leveriiens leveriens leveriiez leveriez leveroient levereient compound present perfect present tense ofavoir pluperfect imperfect tense ofavoir past anterior preterite tense ofavoir future perfect future tense ofavoir conditional perfect conditional tense ofavoir subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il simple present lief lies liet levons levez lievent imperfect levasse levasses levast levissons levissiens levissoiz levissez levissiez levassent compound past present subjunctive ofavoir pluperfect imperfect subjunctive ofavoir imperative – tu – nos vos – — lieve — levons levez —
FromOld Norse hleifr Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz
lēver m
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FromOld Norse lifr Proto-Germanic *librō Proto-Indo-European *leyp- ( “ to smudge, stick ” ) , from*ley- ( “ to be slimy, be sticky, glide ” ) .
lever c
( anatomy ) liver lever
present indicative ofleva 
