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UK
/lˈiːvɐ/
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[ US /ˈɫɛvɝ, ˈɫivɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɛvɝ, ˈɫivɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
- a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
- a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
VERB
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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
How To Use lever In A Sentence
- The currency fund can be leveraged up to five times the value of its underlying assets.
- The escapement is a conventional in-line Swiss lever type, but with all parts made from plastic, excepting the impulse pin. Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives
- The XFR features the exclusive Ballistic Armor Protection System featuring PR-481, which Dell says leverages a "high-strength substance" used for applications such as cryogenics, aircraft components, military equipment and medical devices. Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
- Therefore, five 11m long cantilevers were created to allow the total number of dwellings to reach 100 while keeping to the planners’ preferred footprint.
- The director cleverly atmosphered the film for added chills.
- It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.
- The demographic argument is a favorite of clever rejectionists.
- But I doubt anything will compare to the light and clever touch she displays in CCF! Stella Gibbons's novel Cold Comfort Farm is a masterpiece
- The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
- deucedly clever
