lever

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[edit] English

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A lever
A lever diagram

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French leveor, leveur (a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)), from Latin levator (a lifter), from levare, past part. levatus (to raise); see levant. Compare alleviate, elevate, leaven.

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lever (plural levers)

  1. (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
    1. Specifically, a bar 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.
  2. A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button)
  3. (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
  4. (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
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lever (third-person singular simple present levers, present participle levering, simple past and past participle levered)

  1. (transitive) To move with a lever.
    With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
  2. (figuratively) (transitive) To use, operate like a lever.
  3. (chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
    • 1989 Jun 26, “Corporate America wants its privacy”, Minneapolis 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,

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From Middle English comparative of leve (dear) of Germanic origin (compare German lieb) or lief.

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lever (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Rather.
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From French lever.

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lever (plural levers)

  1. (rare) A levee.
    • 1742, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters, II.191:
      We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.
    • 2011, Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement, 21 Sep 2011:
      Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.

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lever

  1. to raise; to lift
  2. (reflexive, se lever) to get up

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From Old Norse lifr.

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  • IPA: /levər/, [lewˀɐ]

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lever c. (singular definite leveren, plural indefinite levere)

  1. liver
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See leve (to live).

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  • IPA: /leːvər/, [ˈleːvɐ]

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lever

  1. present of leve

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See levere (to deliver).

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  • IPA: /lever/, [leˈveˀɐ]

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lever or levér

  1. imperative of levere

[edit] Dutch

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From Old Dutch *livara *levara, from Proto-Germanic *librō. Germanic, cognate with liver, German Leber, Norwegian and Swedish lever etc.

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lever ? (plural levers, diminutive levertje) m. and f.

  1. (anatomy) The organ liver
  2. An edible animal liver as a dish or culinary ingredient
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cognate with deliver, German liefern

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lever

  1. first-person singular present indicative of leveren.
  2. imperative of leveren.

[edit] French

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From Latin levāre, present active infinitive of lēvō (to elevate), from levis (light, not heavy)

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lever

  1. (transitive) to raise, to lift
  2. (reflexive) to rise
  3. (reflexive) to get up (out of bed)
    Je me lève, je me lave.
    I get up, I wash.
  4. (reflexive, of fog, rain and etc) to clear, to lift

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  • This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ before a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il lève rather than *il leve. Other verbs conjugated this way include acheter and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.

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lever m. (plural levers)

  1. the act of getting up in the morning

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le- + ver

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  • IPA: /ˈlɛvɛr/
  • Hyphenation: le‧ver

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lever

  1. (transitive) To knock down

[edit] Latin

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lēver

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lēvō

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lever

  1. Rather.
    For him was lever have at his bed's head
    Twenty bookes, clad in black or red,
    . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie.
    The Cantebury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
    But lever than this worldés good
    She would have wist how that it stood
    Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, John Gower.

[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Norse lifr, cognate with liver, Dutch lever, German Leber, Swedish lever.

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lever

  1. (anatomy) A liver
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lever

  1. present tense of leve, leva (Nynorsk)

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Latin lēvō

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lever

  1. to lift (up)

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  • This verb conjugates the same as other verbs ending -er, apart from an extra 'i' is inserted in some of the conjugated forms. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

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[edit] Etymology 1

Germanic, cognate with liver, Dutch lever, German Leber, Norwegian lever.

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lever c.

  1. (anatomy) a liver
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lever

  1. present tense of leva.
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