adjustable spanner

English

two open-end adjustable spanners

two box-end adjustable spanners

Pronunciation

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Noun

adjustable spanner (plural adjustable spanners)

2. (UK) An adjustable hand tool for tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.

   Synonyms: adjustable wrench (especially North America); adjustable; shifting spanner, shifter (especially Australia)

   Hypernyms: spanner, wrench < hand tool < tool

   Hyponyms: Crescent wrench, crescent wrench (especially North America); crescent spanner (especially New Zealand), monkey wrench

   1. (often specifically) The open-end type of such a tool with a worm-drive thumbwheel.

      Synonyms: Crescent wrench, crescent wrench (especially North America); crescent spanner (especially New Zealand)

      Hypernyms: spanner, wrench < hand tool < tool

      Coordinate term: monkey wrench

Translations

adjustable hand tool

• Basque: giltza zabalgarri, giltza ingelesa
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: clau anglesa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 活動扳手 / 活动扳手 (zh)

• Danish: svensknøgle (da) c, skruenøgle c, skiftenøgle c
• Dutch: Engelse sleutel (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: jakoavain (fi)
• French: clé à molette (fr) f, clé anglaise (fr) f, clé à crémaillère (fr) f
• Galician: chave inglesa f
• German: Rollgabelschlüssel (de) m, Engländer (de) m
• Greek: γαλλικό κλειδί (el) n (gallikó kleidí)
• Hebrew: מפתח שוודי (he) m (maftéaḥ shvédi)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: chiave regolabile f, chiave a rullino f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skiftenøkkel (no) m

• Persian: آچار فرانسه (fa) (âčâr farânse)
• Plautdietsch: Schruwschlätel m
• Polish: klucz nastawny (pl) m inan, klucz francuski (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: chave inglesa (pt) f
• Romanian: cheie reglabilă f, cheie engleză f
• Russian: разводной гаечный ключ m (razvodnoj gaječnyj ključ)
• Spanish: llave inglesa (es) f, llave francesa (es) f, llave ajustable (es) f
• Swedish: skiftnyckel (sv) c
• Turkish: İngiliz anahtarı (tr), kurbağacık (tr)
• Vietnamese: mỏ lết (vi)