lever
杠杆,杠杆作用,撬动,杠杆式
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- : 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.
- : a tool, as a pry or a crowbar, for raising, moving, or opening something by leverage: There's a small lever in my toolbox that'll be perfect for prying off these narrow moldings.
- : a handle or bar that is manipulated to operate, control, or adjust a machine, mechanism, etc.: Pushing down the lever on the left will automatically open the door.
- : a means or agency of persuading or of achieving an end: Saying that the chairman of the board likes the plan is just a lever to get us to support it.
- : Horology. the pallet of an escapement.
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- : to move with or apply a lever: to lever a rock; to lever mightily and to no avail.
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The 65cc and up bikes start to introduce manual clutches and require more rider skills to modulate the clutch lever and click through gears via the shifter.
It’s gone from a “strategic lever for the future to a strategic lever for right now,” he says.
For Mead and Benedict, social theory was a tool for making sense of the world, but it could also be a lever against your own predicaments.
In that case, even if we can directly manipulate some of them the way we can directly manipulate links, it’s much harder to know which levers to pull and the most direct way to try to impact the numbers we’re judged on, again, becomes brand.
It won’t be without its challenges, but it’s a policy lever we might pull.
That is, TFA is neither a lever for dramatically improving or ruining U.S. public education.
Instead of pushing the cup against a mechanical lever, users push a “button” on a touchscreen.
A campaign button on his lapel showed him in a smile and a suit, and advertised his name and lever.
But Walker is betting that when the time comes to vote, Republicans will pull the lever for a person who gets things done.
Mavis Lilian Lever was born in Dulwich, south London, on May 5, 1921, the daughter of a postal worker and a seamstress.
A feed-pump forced water into the boilers; each had a safety-valve with a and weight.