Definitions for Lever

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Lever lev·er

Spelling: [lev-er, lee-ver]

IPA: /ˈlɛv ər, ˈli vər/

Lever is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in Lever (eelrv).

Definitions for Lever

noun

1. Mechanics. a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third. Compare machine (def 4b).
2. a means or agency of persuading or of achieving an end:
3. Horology. the pallet of an escapement.
4. Charles James ("Cornelius O'Dowd") 1806–72, Irish novelist and essayist.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to move with or apply a lever:

Origin of Lever

1250-1300; Middle English levere, levour for *lever Anglo-French; Old French levier, equivalent to lev(er) to lift (Latin levāre to lighten, lift, verbal derivative of levis light) + -ier

Examples for Lever

The bar or lever that is fixed to the top of the rudder-post is called a tiller.

People who play slot machines are excited because they never know when pulling the lever will result in a jackpot.

But Walker is betting that when the time comes to vote, Republicans will pull the lever for a person who gets things done.

Here's the heap of stone he used as a fulcrum for his lever.

I don't like the term "reparation," sir, except as a lever in the hands of counsel.

Thou art the lever with which Archimedes was to lift the earthly sphere!

A campaign button on his lapel showed him in a smile and a suit, and advertised his name and lever.

The British were bombed, but we are fighting on some islands belonging to the lever Company, a British concern making soap.

The rudder may also be curved or warped in similar manner by lever action.

That is, TFA is neither a lever for dramatically improving or ruining U.S. public education.