head

en-noun

head (countable and uncountable, plural heads or head)

→ Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)

Sranan Tongo: ede

Aukan: ede

Saramaccan: hédi

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput-
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput. The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-, the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).

頭

つぶり, tsuburi, つぃぶる, tsiburu, つぃぶるぃ, tsiburi

pää

have one's head screwed on the right way

know one's head from a hole in the ground

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

would lose one's head if it wasn't attached

would lose one's head if it wasn't bolted on

would lose one's head if it wasn't glued on

would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on

would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on

would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on

would lose one's head if it weren't attached

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

you can't put a wise head on young shoulders

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

(machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.


accumulator

From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate + -or.

(mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

akumulilo

mechanics: system of elastic springs for relieving strain upon a rope


tenth

From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).

af

(machining) A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.


not

head

not c (singular definite noten, plural indefinite noter)

noten (definite singular)
noter (indefinite plural)
not (indefinite nominative singular)
noten (definite nominative singular)
noter (indefinite nominative plural)
noterne (definite nominative plural)
nots (genitive indefinite singular)
notens (definite genitive singular)
noters (genitive indefinite plural)
noternes (definite genitive plural)


not

nota (definite singular)
noter (indefinite plural)
notene (definite plural)

nót

alternative spelling of etymology 1 and 2

(carpentry, mechanics) a groove (as used in a tongue and groove joint)


boss

From Middle English bos, bose, boce, from Old French boce (“lump, bulge, protuberance, knot”), from Frankish *bottja, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to hit, strike, beat”). Doublet of beat; see there for more.

der

The seargent […] screwing a bipod into the threaded boss on the underside of the barrel would kill these animals […]

1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IV, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.

(mechanics) A protrusion; frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.

en:prominence or projection on an object


bucket

→ Farefare: bɔgtɛ

→ Japanese: バケツ (baketsu)

→ Maori: pākete

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

gloss

"bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">buck</i>

der

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.


SI

en-noun

SI (countable and uncountable, plural SIs)

S.I.

statutory instrument, chiefly in citation

(mechanical engineering) Initialism of spark ignition.


face

→ Danish: fjæs

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: fjes

Norwegian Nynorsk: fjes

→ Swedish: fejs, fjäs

→ Wu: 番斯 (¹fe-sy)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs (“form, appearance”). Doublet of facies. Displaced native onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ansīen (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English ler, leor, leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hlēor), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere.
In the sense of face as in reputation, influenced by Chinese 面子 (miànzi) or 臉／脸 (liǎn), both of which mean literally the front of the head and metaphorically one's public image. See lose face.

noncog

talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening

a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face

(mechanics) The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.


kara

kara (nominative singular)
karat (nominative plural)
kara (accusative nominative singular)
karat (accusative nominative plural)
karan (accusative genitive singular)
karat (accusative genitive plural)
karan (genitive singular)
karojen (genitive plural)
karain (genitive plural rare)
karaa (partitive singular)
karoja (partitive plural)
karassa (inessive singular)
karoissa (inessive plural)
karasta (elative singular)
karoista (elative plural)
karaan (illative singular)
karoihin (illative plural)
karalla (adessive singular)
karoilla (adessive plural)
karalta (ablative singular)
karoilta (ablative plural)
karalle (allative singular)
karoille (allative plural)
karana (essive singular)
karoina (essive plural)
karaksi (singular translative)
karoiksi (plural translative)
karatta (abessive singular)
karoitta (abessive plural)
karoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
karani (nominative singular)
karani (nominative plural)
karani (accusative nominative singular)
karani (accusative nominative plural)
karani (accusative genitive singular)
karani (accusative genitive plural)
karani (genitive singular)
karojeni (genitive plural)
karaini (genitive plural rare)
karaani (partitive singular)
karojani (partitive plural)
karassani (inessive singular)
karoissani (inessive plural)
karastani (elative singular)
karoistani (elative plural)
karaani (illative singular)
karoihini (illative plural)
karallani (adessive singular)
karoillani (adessive plural)
karaltani (ablative singular)
karoiltani (ablative plural)
karalleni (allative singular)
karoilleni (allative plural)
karanani (essive singular)
karoinani (essive plural)
karakseni (singular translative)
karoikseni (plural translative)
karattani (abessive singular)
karoittani (abessive plural)
karoineni (comitative plural)
karasi (nominative singular)
karasi (nominative plural)
karasi (accusative nominative singular)
karasi (accusative nominative plural)
karasi (accusative genitive singular)
karasi (accusative genitive plural)
karasi (genitive singular)
karojesi (genitive plural)
karaisi (genitive plural rare)
karaasi (partitive singular)
karojasi (partitive plural)
karassasi (inessive singular)
karoissasi (inessive plural)
karastasi (elative singular)
karoistasi (elative plural)
karaasi (illative singular)
karoihisi (illative plural)
karallasi (adessive singular)
karoillasi (adessive plural)
karaltasi (ablative singular)
karoiltasi (ablative plural)
karallesi (allative singular)
karoillesi (allative plural)
karanasi (essive singular)
karoinasi (essive plural)
karaksesi (singular translative)
karoiksesi (plural translative)
karattasi (abessive singular)
karoittasi (abessive plural)
karoinesi (comitative plural)
karamme (nominative singular)
karamme (nominative plural)
karamme (accusative nominative singular)
karamme (accusative nominative plural)
karamme (accusative genitive singular)
karamme (accusative genitive plural)
karamme (genitive singular)
karojemme (genitive plural)
karaimme (genitive plural rare)
karaamme (partitive singular)
karojamme (partitive plural)
karassamme (inessive singular)
karoissamme (inessive plural)
karastamme (elative singular)
karoistamme (elative plural)
karaamme (illative singular)
karoihimme (illative plural)
karallamme (adessive singular)
karoillamme (adessive plural)
karaltamme (ablative singular)
karoiltamme (ablative plural)
karallemme (allative singular)
karoillemme (allative plural)
karanamme (essive singular)
karoinamme (essive plural)
karaksemme (singular translative)
karoiksemme (plural translative)
karattamme (abessive singular)
karoittamme (abessive plural)
karoinemme (comitative plural)
karanne (nominative singular)
karanne (nominative plural)
karanne (accusative nominative singular)
karanne (accusative nominative plural)
karanne (accusative genitive singular)
karanne (accusative genitive plural)
karanne (genitive singular)
karojenne (genitive plural)
karainne (genitive plural rare)
karaanne (partitive singular)
karojanne (partitive plural)
karassanne (inessive singular)
karoissanne (inessive plural)
karastanne (elative singular)
karoistanne (elative plural)
karaanne (illative singular)
karoihinne (illative plural)
karallanne (adessive singular)
karoillanne (adessive plural)
karaltanne (ablative singular)
karoiltanne (ablative plural)
karallenne (allative singular)
karoillenne (allative plural)
karananne (essive singular)
karoinanne (essive plural)
karaksenne (singular translative)
karoiksenne (plural translative)
karattanne (abessive singular)
karoittanne (abessive plural)
karoinenne (comitative plural)
karansa (nominative singular)
karansa (nominative plural)
karansa (accusative nominative singular)
karansa (accusative nominative plural)
karansa (accusative genitive singular)
karansa (accusative genitive plural)
karansa (genitive singular)
karojensa (genitive plural)
karainsa (genitive plural rare)
karaansa (partitive singular)
karojaan (partitive plural)
karojansa (partitive plural)
karassaan (inessive singular)
karassansa (inessive singular)
karoissaan (inessive plural)
karoissansa (inessive plural)
karastaan (elative singular)
karastansa (elative singular)
karoistaan (elative plural)
karoistansa (elative plural)
karaansa (illative singular)
karoihinsa (illative plural)
karallaan (adessive singular)
karallansa (adessive singular)
karoillaan (adessive plural)
karoillansa (adessive plural)
karaltaan (ablative singular)
karaltansa (ablative singular)
karoiltaan (ablative plural)
karoiltansa (ablative plural)
karalleen (allative singular)
karallensa (allative singular)
karoilleen (allative plural)
karoillensa (allative plural)
karanaan (essive singular)
karanansa (essive singular)
karoinaan (essive plural)
karoinansa (essive plural)
karakseen (singular translative)
karaksensa (singular translative)
karoikseen (plural translative)
karoiksensa (plural translative)
karattaan (abessive singular)
karattansa (abessive singular)
karoittaan (abessive plural)
karoittansa (abessive plural)
karoineen (comitative plural)
karoinensa (comitative plural)

pin, spindle, rod (machine part, often relatively long and narrow, used either as an axle or support)

spindle (rod which turns, or on which something turns, e.g. of a door or window handle)

(machining) spindle (rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool)


rata

rata (nominative singular)
radat (nominative plural)
rata (accusative nominative singular)
radat (accusative nominative plural)
radan (accusative genitive singular)
radat (accusative genitive plural)
radan (genitive singular)
ratojen (genitive plural)
ratain (genitive plural rare)
rataa (partitive singular)
ratoja (partitive plural)
radassa (inessive singular)
radoissa (inessive plural)
radasta (elative singular)
radoista (elative plural)
rataan (illative singular)
ratoihin (illative plural)
radalla (adessive singular)
radoilla (adessive plural)
radalta (ablative singular)
radoilta (ablative plural)
radalle (allative singular)
radoille (allative plural)
ratana (essive singular)
ratoina (essive plural)
radaksi (singular translative)
radoiksi (plural translative)
radatta (abessive singular)
radoitta (abessive plural)
radoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
ratani (nominative singular)
ratani (nominative plural)
ratani (accusative nominative singular)
ratani (accusative nominative plural)
ratani (accusative genitive singular)
ratani (accusative genitive plural)
ratani (genitive singular)
ratojeni (genitive plural)
rataini (genitive plural rare)
rataani (partitive singular)
ratojani (partitive plural)
radassani (inessive singular)
radoissani (inessive plural)
radastani (elative singular)
radoistani (elative plural)
rataani (illative singular)
ratoihini (illative plural)
radallani (adessive singular)
radoillani (adessive plural)
radaltani (ablative singular)
radoiltani (ablative plural)
radalleni (allative singular)
radoilleni (allative plural)
ratanani (essive singular)
ratoinani (essive plural)
radakseni (singular translative)
radoikseni (plural translative)
radattani (abessive singular)
radoittani (abessive plural)
ratoineni (comitative plural)
ratasi (nominative singular)
ratasi (nominative plural)
ratasi (accusative nominative singular)
ratasi (accusative nominative plural)
ratasi (accusative genitive singular)
ratasi (accusative genitive plural)
ratasi (genitive singular)
ratojesi (genitive plural)
rataisi (genitive plural rare)
rataasi (partitive singular)
ratojasi (partitive plural)
radassasi (inessive singular)
radoissasi (inessive plural)
radastasi (elative singular)
radoistasi (elative plural)
rataasi (illative singular)
ratoihisi (illative plural)
radallasi (adessive singular)
radoillasi (adessive plural)
radaltasi (ablative singular)
radoiltasi (ablative plural)
radallesi (allative singular)
radoillesi (allative plural)
ratanasi (essive singular)
ratoinasi (essive plural)
radaksesi (singular translative)
radoiksesi (plural translative)
radattasi (abessive singular)
radoittasi (abessive plural)
ratoinesi (comitative plural)
ratamme (nominative singular)
ratamme (nominative plural)
ratamme (accusative nominative singular)
ratamme (accusative nominative plural)
ratamme (accusative genitive singular)
ratamme (accusative genitive plural)
ratamme (genitive singular)
ratojemme (genitive plural)
rataimme (genitive plural rare)
rataamme (partitive singular)
ratojamme (partitive plural)
radassamme (inessive singular)
radoissamme (inessive plural)
radastamme (elative singular)
radoistamme (elative plural)
rataamme (illative singular)
ratoihimme (illative plural)
radallamme (adessive singular)
radoillamme (adessive plural)
radaltamme (ablative singular)
radoiltamme (ablative plural)
radallemme (allative singular)
radoillemme (allative plural)
ratanamme (essive singular)
ratoinamme (essive plural)
radaksemme (singular translative)
radoiksemme (plural translative)
radattamme (abessive singular)
radoittamme (abessive plural)
ratoinemme (comitative plural)
ratanne (nominative singular)
ratanne (nominative plural)
ratanne (accusative nominative singular)
ratanne (accusative nominative plural)
ratanne (accusative genitive singular)
ratanne (accusative genitive plural)
ratanne (genitive singular)
ratojenne (genitive plural)
ratainne (genitive plural rare)
rataanne (partitive singular)
ratojanne (partitive plural)
radassanne (inessive singular)
radoissanne (inessive plural)
radastanne (elative singular)
radoistanne (elative plural)
rataanne (illative singular)
ratoihinne (illative plural)
radallanne (adessive singular)
radoillanne (adessive plural)
radaltanne (ablative singular)
radoiltanne (ablative plural)
radallenne (allative singular)
radoillenne (allative plural)
ratananne (essive singular)
ratoinanne (essive plural)
radaksenne (singular translative)
radoiksenne (plural translative)
radattanne (abessive singular)
radoittanne (abessive plural)
ratoinenne (comitative plural)
ratansa (nominative singular)
ratansa (nominative plural)
ratansa (accusative nominative singular)
ratansa (accusative nominative plural)
ratansa (accusative genitive singular)
ratansa (accusative genitive plural)
ratansa (genitive singular)
ratojensa (genitive plural)
ratainsa (genitive plural rare)
rataansa (partitive singular)
ratojaan (partitive plural)
ratojansa (partitive plural)
radassaan (inessive singular)
radassansa (inessive singular)
radoissaan (inessive plural)
radoissansa (inessive plural)
radastaan (elative singular)
radastansa (elative singular)
radoistaan (elative plural)
radoistansa (elative plural)
rataansa (illative singular)
ratoihinsa (illative plural)
radallaan (adessive singular)
radallansa (adessive singular)
radoillaan (adessive plural)
radoillansa (adessive plural)
radaltaan (ablative singular)
radaltansa (ablative singular)
radoiltaan (ablative plural)
radoiltansa (ablative plural)
radalleen (allative singular)
radallensa (allative singular)
radoilleen (allative plural)
radoillensa (allative plural)
ratanaan (essive singular)
ratanansa (essive singular)
ratoinaan (essive plural)
ratoinansa (essive plural)
radakseen (singular translative)
radaksensa (singular translative)
radoikseen (plural translative)
radoiksensa (plural translative)
radattaan (abessive singular)
radattansa (abessive singular)
radoittaan (abessive plural)
radoittansa (abessive plural)
ratoineen (comitative plural)
ratoinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *rata (compare Estonian rada, Ingrian rata (“The Milky Way”), Karelian rata (“The Milky Way”), Livonian radā), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *tradō (compare Dutch tra (“trail, (forest) path”)).

(mechanics) trajectory, course (path of a body as it travels through space)

(mechanics) orbit (path of one object around another)


weight

en-noun

weight (countable and uncountable, plural weights)

Belizean Creole: wayt

→ Japanese: ウエイト (ueito)

→ Burmese: ဝိတ် (wit)

From Middle English weight, weiȝte, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ġewiht (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz ("weight"; compare *weganą (“to move”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move; pull; draw; drive”). Equivalent to weigh + -th.
Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (“weight”), Saterland Frisian Wächte (“scale”), Gewicht (“weight”), West Frisian gewicht (“weight”), Dutch gewicht (“weight”), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (“weight”), German Wucht (“massiveness, force”), Gewicht (“weight”).

gloss

"weight"; compare <i class="Latn mention" lang="gem-pro">*weganą</i> (“to move”)


sleep

en-verb

sleep (third-person singular simple present sleeps, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slept)

sleeps (present singular third-person)
sleeping (participle present)
slept (participle past)
slept (past)

Sranan Tongo: sribi

From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan (West Saxon slǣpan), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.

When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing.

A top sleeps when it moves with such velocity, and spins so smoothly, that its motion is imperceptible.

1854, Anne E. Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases:

(intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.

1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters, page 158:

(transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.


spin

en-noun

spin (countable and uncountable, plural spins)

From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Compare Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna.

(mechanical engineering) An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.


power

power (countable and uncountable, plural powers)

→ German: Power

→ Welsh: pŵer

/ˈpʌʊ̯.(ə)ɹ/

From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.

(physics, mechanics) A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.

пату́жнасць

physics: rate to magnify an optical image


fox

fox (plural foxes or (nonstandard, dialectal) foxen)

foxes (plural)
foxen (dialectal nonstandard plural)

→ Cheyenne: vóhkéso

→ Japanese: フォックス (fokkusu)

→ Maori: pōkiha

From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“tail”).
Cognate with Scots fox (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), Fering-Öömrang North Frisian foos and Sölring and Heligoland fos, Dutch vos (“fox”), Low German vos (“fox”), German Fuchs (“fox”), Icelandic fóa (“fox”), Tocharian B päkā (“tail, chowrie”), Russian пух (pux, “down, fluff”), Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha) (whence Torwali پوش (pūš, “fox”), Hindi पूंछ (pūñch, “tail”)).

inh

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

(mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.


torque

en-noun

torque (countable and uncountable, plural torques)

→ Turkish: tork

Borrowed from Latin torqueō (“to twist”).

bor+

The relative strengths of the various torques will depend on both the spacecraft environment and the form and structure of the spacecraft itself.

1978, James Richard Wertz, Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Springer, page 17:

The drillhead produces the drilling rotation and torque but also must slide out of position to allow the machine to manipulate the finisher drill steel and consumables.

2006, Department of Mining Engineering, Proceedings: 35th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, volume 25, West Virginia University, page 162:

(physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)


torque

en-verb

torque (third-person singular simple present torques, present participle torquing or torqueing, simple past and past participle torqued)

torques (present singular third-person)
torquing (participle present)
torqueing (participle present)
torqued (participle past)
torqued (past)

(physics, mechanics) To make something rotate about an axis by imparting torque to it.


torque

Para estar em equilíbrio estático, um corpo rígido deve ter a soma de seus torques igual a zero.

In order to be in static equilibrium, a rigid body must have the sum of its torques equal to zero.

(physics, mechanics) torque (a rotational or twisting force)


shock

en-noun

shock (countable and uncountable, plural shocks)

→ Bulgarian: шок (šok)

→ Chinese: 休克 (xiūkè)

→ Czech: šok

→ Italian: shock

→ Japanese: ショック (shokku)

→ Korean: 쇼크 (syokeu)

→ Macedonian: шок (šok)

→ Polish: szok

→ Russian: шок (šok)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: шо̏к

Latin: šȍk

→ Slovak: šok

→ Spanish: shock

From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake.
Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog.

cog

shark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

If your truck's been riding rough, it might need new shocks.

We're bonin' on the dark blocks / Wearin' out the shocks, wettin' up the dashboard clock

1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:

At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mounted shock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos.

1994, Cycle World Magazine, volume 33, number 1, page 49:

(automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).


cylinder

cylinder (indefinite nominative singular)
cylinders (genitive indefinite singular)
cylindern (definite nominative singular)
cylinderns (definite genitive singular)
cylindrar (indefinite nominative plural)
cylindrars (genitive indefinite plural)
cylindrarna (definite nominative plural)
cylindrarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.

(mechanics) a cylinder (part of an engine)


humanoid

pl-noun

humanoid m animal (related adjective humanoidalny)

humanoidalny (adjective)
humanoid (nominative singular)
humanoidy (nominative plural)
humanoida (genitive singular)
humanoidów (genitive plural)
humanoidowi (dative singular)
humanoidom (dative plural)
humanoida (accusative singular)
humanoidy (accusative plural)
humanoidem (instrumental singular)
humanoidami (instrumental plural)
humanoidzie (locative singular)
humanoidach (locative plural)
humanoidzie (singular vocative)
humanoidy (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English humanoid, French humanoïde, German Humanoid, ultimately from Latin hūmānus.

(robotics, science fiction) humanoid (being having the appearance or characteristics of a human)


note

(mechanics) to supply a board to a groove


backlash

en-noun

backlash (countable and uncountable, plural backlashes)

... the word "backlash" is used in the extended sense in which it is understood in Lancashire and Yorkshire , including not only backlash proper , but also break of contact between the working faces of the teeth of the two wheels when the driven wheel overruns the driver without actual backlash . To place rope or belt drums of any considerable size upon shafts driven by spur gearing is nearly always dangerous.

1896 Mr. Michael Longridge, of Manchester: Breakdowns of Stationary Steam-Engines. Proceedings. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Page 541

(mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).

луфт

mechanical: distance of free movement between connected parts

In ...breakages from high speed and irregular pitch, ten out of the eleven wheels had spur segments moulded from patterns, instead of by machinery; and in three of the ten the teeth were cast upon the felks, and were twisted and drawn, as they generally are when cast in this way, by the contraction of the mass of metal of which they form a part. In every instance the speed was high, and in several cases there was more or less backlash or over-running.

(mechanics) The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

биене

jarring motion in badly fitting machinery


lash

setting the proper valve lash for solid lifters

excessive lash in the gear train

(machining, mechanical) Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).


mayonnaise

→ Danish: mayonnaise

→ Dutch: mayonaise

→ English: mayonnaise

→ German: Mayonnaise

→ Greek: μαγιονέζα (magionéza)

→ Indonesian: mayones

→ Japanese: マヨネーズ (mayonēzu)

→ Polish: majonez

→ Portuguese: maionese

→ Tetum: maioneze

→ Russian: майонез (majonez)

Possibly named after the city Maó, Minorca, whence the recipe was brought back to France. Alternative suggested origins include the city of Bayonne (bayonnaise); the French word manier (“to handle”); the Old French moyeu (“egg yolk”); and the Duke of Mayenne.

(analogy, mechanics, informal) milkshake (accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine)


handwheel

When the large handwheel seen in the illustration of a 68000 class cab is moved from "stop" to "run", the traction circuit contactors are closed and the locomotive moves off with the diesel engine running at idling speed.

1964 May, “Automation in the cab—latest SNCF developments”, in Modern Railways, page 336:

(mechanics) Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.


fulcrum

Borrowed from Latin fulcrum (“bedpost, foot of a couch”), from fulciō (“prop up, support”).

bor

It is possible to flick food across the table using your fork as a lever and your finger as a fulcrum.

MILDRED: Archimedes said give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I will move the world.
CHARLOTTE: Yeah she said that twaddle eight or nine times.

A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.

2012 March, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:

(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.


damper

From damp (verb) + -er.
The name of the type of bread is first attested in 1825, and originally likely refers to damping the appetite.

In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.

1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:

However, complaints quickly surfaced about the ride quality of the SIG BT41 bogies, which was only cured by the fitting of additional dampers to the bogies and couplers.

2022 September 21, Ben Jones, “IC225s: the Electras go gliding on”, in RAIL, number 966, page 40:

(mechanical engineering) A shock absorber.

Something that damps or checks:
A shock absorber.


en-adj

null (comparative more null, superlative most null)

more null (comparative)
most null (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.

In normal operation, the input cranks to both the MPCU and standby rudder actuator will rotate to provide the servo valve command to the units, and the rudder will be hydraulically moved by the MPCU. The rudder movement is in turn fed back mechanically to both the MPCU and standby actuator systems so that when the rudder surface deflects to the position commanded by the pilot, the input cranks on both of the units will be returned to their null positions. Thus, there is a geometric relationship between the rudder position, the input crank of the MPCU, the torque tube, and the input crank of the standby rudder actuator that is retained during normal operation.

2001 March 27, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.16.3 Detail Examination and Tests of Standby Rudder Actuator Input Shaft and Bearing”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Uncontrolled Descent and Collision With Terrain, United Airlines Flight 585, Boeing 737-200, N999UA, 4 Miles South of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 3, 1991, archived from the original on 2022-05-08, pages 62–63:

(mechanical engineering, of a position or setting) Neutral.


arbre

Inherited from Old French arbre, from Latin arborem. See also Catalan arbre, Italian albero, Occitan arbre, Portuguese árvore, Romanian arbore.

la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l’arbre


CC

(fasteners) Initialism of cement-coated.


銑

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sɯːnʔ): semantic 釒 + phonetic 先 (OC *sɯːn, *sɯːns).
Compare Tibetan གསེར (gser, “gold”) (Hill, 2019).


bolt

→ Irish: bolta

→ Japanese: ボルト (boruto)

→ Maltese: bolt

desctree

→ Russian: болт (bolt)
→ Azerbaijani: bolt
→ Ingrian: boltta

→ Scottish Gaelic: bolta

From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.

der

(military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.


milkshake

This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket.

(mechanics, informal) Accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine.


ejector

/iːˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/

(mechanics) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.


lever

From Middle English lever, levore, levour, from Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)”), from Latin levātor (“a lifter”), from levō (“to raise”). Doublet of levator.

(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.

Retractable steps and handrails are provided on each side of the cars. The steps, which are under the control of the guard, are operated by hand levers in the entrance vestibule.

1952 September, “Modernised Pull-and-Push Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:

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.

(mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.

(mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.


safety

en-noun

safety (countable and uncountable, plural safeties)

Inherited from Middle English savete, from Old French sauveté, from earlier salvetet, from Medieval Latin salvitās, salvitātem, from Latin salvus.

Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.

(mechanics) A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.


luff

en-verb

luff (third-person singular simple present luffs, present participle luffing, simple past and past participle luffed)

luffs (present singular third-person)
luffing (participle present)
luffed (participle past)
luffed (past)

From Old French lof. Collins English Dictionary states that this word is ultimately derived from Middle Dutch loef. Ellert Ekwall's Shakspere's Vocabulary: its etymological elements (1903) related this verb and loof instead to the East Frisian verb lofen, lufen, which would make it cognate to the French term lover.

The tower is mounted on a slewing platform, which also carries the power plant and the counterweights, while the jib is supported and luffed by fixed pendant ropes.

1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and Derricks, →ISBN, page 95:

(mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.


pisa

(of electronics, electrical, mechanical) a part or a component

(by extension) an integrated circuit; electronic component


tap

The noun is derived from Middle English tappe (“hollow device for controlling the flow of liquid from a hole, cock, faucet, spigot; hole through which the liquid flows; the liquid which thus flows”), from Old English tæppa, from Proto-West Germanic *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“a plug, tap; peg; tapering stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p- (“to lose; to sacrifice”).
The verb is derived from Middle English tappen (“to obtain (liquid, chiefly liquor) from a tap; to obtain and sell (liquor)”), from Old English tæppian (“to provide (a container) with a stopper; to obtain (liquid) from a tap”), and then either:
* from Old English tæppa (see above) + -ian (suffix forming verbs); or
* from Proto-Germanic *tappōną, from *tappô (noun) (see above).
Verb sense 1.3.5 (“to turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round”) alludes to the abilities or resources of the card or piece having been drawn on to the point of temporary exhaustion: see verb sense 1.3.2.

rubinet

hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid — see also faucet

We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve’s thread.

To fit the Pin therefore to a true ſize, I in my Practiſe uſe to try into vvhat Hole of the Screvv Plate, the Tap or place of the Tap, (if it be a tapering Tap,) I make the Nut vvith vvill juſt ſlide through; […] But if the Screvv-Tap have no Handle, then it hath its upper end Filed to a long ſquare, to fit into an hollovv ſquare, made near the Handle of the Screvv-Plate: Put that long ſquare hole over the long ſquare on the top of the Tap, and then by turning about the Screvv-Plate, you vvill alſo turn about the Tap in the Hole, and make Grooves and Threds in the Nut.

1678 January 11 – February 11 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Moxon, “Numb[er] II. Applied to the Making of Hinges, Locks, Keys, Screws and Nuts Small and Great.”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume I, London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1683, →OCLC, page 31:

(mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.

метчик

The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.

(British, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.

electrical engineering
electrical engineering


tap

en-verb

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

taps (present singular third-person)
tapping (participle present)
tapped (participle past)
tapped (past)
tap (infinitive)

точа

to draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source)

Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.

To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).

нарязвам резба

to cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole; to create an internally threaded hole in (something)

To cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw.

tehdä ulkokierre

to cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw

To put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing.

työntää ruuvi läpi

to put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing


tap

head

tap c (singular definite tappen, plural indefinite tappe or tapper)

tappen (definite singular)
tappe (indefinite plural)
tapper (indefinite plural)
tap (indefinite nominative singular)
tappen (definite nominative singular)
tappe (indefinite nominative plural)
tapper (indefinite nominative plural)
tappene (definite nominative plural)
tapperne (definite nominative plural)
taps (genitive indefinite singular)
tappens (definite genitive singular)
tappes (genitive indefinite plural)
tappers (genitive indefinite plural)
tappenes (definite genitive plural)
tappernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Danish tapp, from Old Norse tappi, from Proto-Germanic *tappô.

(mechanics) protruding component of a device


virtual

/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəl/

/ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/

/ˈvɵːt͡ʃuəl/

PIE word
 *wiHrós
The adjective is derived from Middle English vertual, virtual [and other forms], from Old French vertüal, vertüelle (modern French virtuel), or from their etymon Medieval Latin virtuālis (“of or pertaining to potency or power; having power to produce an effect, potent; morally virtuous”), from Latin virtūs (“goodness, virtue; manliness, virility”) (from vir (“adult male, man”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man”), possibly from *weyh₁- (“to chase, hunt, pursue”)) + -tūs (suffix forming collective or abstract nouns)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship), modelled after virtuōsus (“good, virtuous”).
Sense 4 (“pertaining to a theoretical infinitesimal velocity in a mechanical system that does not violate the system’s constraints”) is borrowed from French virtuel, from Middle French virtuel, from Old French vertüal, vertüelle: see above.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* French virtuel
* Italian virtuale
* Spanish virtual

der

virtual displacement virtual work

(mechanics) Pertaining to a theoretical infinitesimal velocity in a mechanical system that does not violate the system's constraints; also, of other physical quantities: resulting from such a velocity.

virtuaalinen

pertaining to a theoretical infinitesimal velocity in a mechanical system that does not violate the system’s constraints; of other physical quantities: resulting from such a velocity


manifold

From Middle English manifold, from Old English maniġfeald (“manifold, various, varied, complicated, numerous, abundant, plural”), from Proto-Germanic *managafalþaz, equivalent to many + -fold. Cognate with Middle High German manecvalt (“manifold”), Icelandic margfaldr (“multiple”). Compare also German mannigfaltig (“various”), Dutch menigvoudig (“various”), Danish mangefold (“multiple”), Swedish mångfald (“diversity”).

cog

(mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.


lug

head

lug m (genitive singular luga, nominative plural luganna)

luga (genitive singular)
luganna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
lug (indefinite singular)
luganna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a lug (indefinite singular)
a luganna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
luga (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an lug (definite singular)
na luganna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an luga (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an lug (definite singular)
don lug (definite singular)
leis na luganna (definite plural)


moment

en-noun

moment (countable and uncountable, plural moments)

From Middle English moment, from Old French moment, from Latin mōmentum. Doublet of momentum and movement.

(physics, mechanics) Ellipsis of moment of force.


moment

→ Persian: ممان (momân)


walk

en-verb

walk (third-person singular simple present walks, present participle walking, simple past and past participle walked)

walks (present singular third-person)
walking (participle present)
walked (participle past)
walked (past)
walk (infinitive)

Chinese Pidgin English: walkee

From Middle English walken (“to move, walk, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną, *walkōną (“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”).
Cognate with Scots walk (“to walk”), Saterland Frisian walkje (“to full; drum; flex; mill”), West Frisian swalkje (“to wander, roam”), Dutch walken (“to full, work hair or felt”), Dutch zwalken (“to wander about”), German walken (“to flex, full, mill, drum”), Danish valke (“to waulk, full”), Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Sanskrit वल्गति (válgati, “amble, bound, leap, dance”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.

cog

(machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)


tuil

ms-noun

tuil (Jawi spelling توءيل, plural tuil-tuil, informal 1st possessive tuilku, 2nd possessive tuilmu, 3rd possessive tuilnya)

توءيل (Jawi)
tuil-tuil (plural)
tuilku (first-person informal possessive)
tuilmu (possessive second-person)
tuilnya (possessive third-person)

From Proto-Malayic *tuil, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *tuil, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *tuil, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuil.


direction

→ Turkish: direksiyon

→ Hijazi Arabic: دركسون (diriksōn)

(mechanics) Set of subsystems which allow to orient the wheels of a vehicle.


gland

Early 19th century, probably from Scots glam (“vice, clamp”), probably from a variant of clam (“clam; clamp, vise”). Related to clamp.

(mechanics) A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, used for example around a ship’s propeller shaft or around a tap, valve or faucet.


polygon of forces

en-noun

polygon of forces (plural polygons of forces)

(mechanics) A polygonal figure the sides of which are vectors representing several forces acting simultaneously upon one point, so that the vector necessary to make the figure closed is the resultant of those forces.


parallelogram of forces

parallelogram of forces (plural parallelograms of forces)

(mechanics) A parallelogram, two adjacent sides of which are vectors having the same initial point and representing two forces acting simultaneously upon this point, such that the resultant of the forces is given by the diagonal of the parallelogram that passes through this point.


LSD

LSD (countable and uncountable, plural LSDs)

limited-slip differential
limited-slip differential#English

(mechanics) Initialism of limited-slip differential.


bottom

en-verb

bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)

bottoms (present singular third-person)
bottoming (participle present)
bottomed (participle past)
bottomed (past)

PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the verb “to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.

cog

allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.

1977, Roger W. Autor Bolz, Production Processes: The Productivity Handbook, page 12-81:

(mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.


säätää

säädän (first-person indicative present singular)
en säädä (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen säätänyt (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole säätänyt (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
säädät (indicative present second-person singular)
et säädä (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet säätänyt (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole säätänyt (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
säätää (indicative present singular third-person)
ei säädä (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on säätänyt (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole säätänyt (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
säädämme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme säädä (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme säätäneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole säätäneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
säädätte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette säädä (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette säätäneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole säätäneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
säätävät (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät säädä (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat säätäneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole säätäneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
säädetään (indicative passive present)
ei säädetä (indicative negative passive present)
on säädetty (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole säädetty (indicative negative passive perfect)
säädin (first-person indicative past singular)
en säätänyt (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin säätänyt (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut säätänyt (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
säädit (indicative past second-person singular)
et säätänyt (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit säätänyt (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut säätänyt (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
sääti (indicative past singular third-person)
ei säätänyt (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli säätänyt (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut säätänyt (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
säädimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme säätäneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme säätäneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet säätäneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
sääditte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette säätäneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte säätäneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet säätäneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
säätivät (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät säätäneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat säätäneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet säätäneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
säädettiin (indicative passive past)
ei säädetty (indicative negative passive past)
oli säädetty (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut säädetty (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
säätäisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en säätäisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin säätänyt (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi säätänyt (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
säätäisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et säätäisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit säätänyt (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi säätänyt (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
säätäisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei säätäisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi säätänyt (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi säätänyt (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
säätäisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme säätäisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme säätäneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi säätäneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
säätäisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette säätäisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte säätäneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi säätäneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
säätäisivät (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät säätäisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat säätäneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi säätäneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
säädettäisiin (conditional passive present)
ei säädettäisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi säädetty (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi säädetty (conditional negative passive perfect)
säädä (imperative present second-person singular)
älä säädä (imperative negative present second-person singular)
säätäköön (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön säätäkö (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon säätänyt (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko säätänyt (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
säätäkäämme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme säätäkö (first-person imperative negative plural present)
säätäkää (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää säätäkö (imperative negative plural present second-person)
säätäkööt (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt säätäkö (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot säätäneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko säätäneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
säädettäköön (imperative passive present)
älköön säädettäkö (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon säädetty (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko säädetty (imperative negative passive perfect)
säätänen (first-person potential present singular)
en säätäne (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen säätänyt (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene säätänyt (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
säätänet (potential present second-person singular)
et säätäne (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet säätänyt (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene säätänyt (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
säätänee (potential present singular third-person)
ei säätäne (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee säätänyt (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene säätänyt (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
säätänemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme säätäne (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme säätäneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene säätäneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
säätänette (plural potential present second-person)
ette säätäne (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette säätäneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene säätäneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
säätänevät (plural potential present third-person)
eivät säätäne (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät säätäneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene säätäneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
säädettäneen (passive potential present)
ei säädettäne (negative passive potential present)
lienee säädetty (passive perfect potential)
ei liene säädetty (negative passive perfect potential)
säätää (infinitive infinitive-i)
säätävä (active participle present)
säädettävä (participle passive present)
säätääkseni (first-person possessive singular)
säätääksemme (first-person plural possessive)
säätääksesi (possessive second-person singular)
säätääksenne (plural possessive second-person)
säätääkseen (possessive third-person)
säätääksensä (possessive third-person)
säätänyt (infinitive-i-long past)
säädetty (infinitive-i-long past)
säätäessä (inessive second-person)
säädettäessä (inessive second-person)
säätämä (agent)
säätäessäni (first-person possessive singular)
säätäessämme (first-person plural possessive)
säätäessäsi (possessive second-person singular)
säätäessänne (plural possessive second-person)
säätäessään (possessive third-person)
säätäessänsä (possessive third-person)
säätämätön (inessive negative second-person)
säätäen (instructive second-person)
säätämässä (inessive third-person)
säätämästä (elative third-person)
säätämään (illative third-person)
säätämällä (adessive third-person)
säätämättä (abessive third-person)
säätämän (instructive third-person)
säädettämän (instructive third-person)
säätäminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
säätämäisilläni (first-person possessive singular)
säätämäisillämme (first-person plural possessive)
säätämäisilläsi (possessive second-person singular)
säätämäisillänne (plural possessive second-person)
säätämäisillään (possessive third-person)
säätämäisillänsä (possessive third-person)

[ˈs̠æːt̪æː(ʔ)]

From Proto-Finnic *säätädäk, equivalent to sää (“(obsolete) fiber, thread, strand”) + -tää (compare säie). Cognates include Estonian seadma, Livonian sǟdõ and Veps säta.

suffix

Voisitko säätää tätä radiota?

(transitive, mechanics) to adjust, regulate, tune, control


kynsi

kynsi (nominative singular)
kynnet (nominative plural)
kynsi (accusative nominative singular)
kynnet (accusative nominative plural)
kynnen (accusative genitive singular)
kynnet (accusative genitive plural)
kynnen (genitive singular)
kynsien (genitive plural)
kyntten (genitive plural rare)
kynttä (partitive singular)
kynsiä (partitive plural)
kynnessä (inessive singular)
kynsissä (inessive plural)
kynnestä (elative singular)
kynsistä (elative plural)
kynteen (illative singular)
kynsiin (illative plural)
kynnellä (adessive singular)
kynsillä (adessive plural)
kynneltä (ablative singular)
kynsiltä (ablative plural)
kynnelle (allative singular)
kynsille (allative plural)
kyntenä (essive singular)
kynsinä (essive plural)
kynneksi (singular translative)
kynsiksi (plural translative)
kynnettä (abessive singular)
kynsittä (abessive plural)
kynsin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kynteni (nominative singular)
kynteni (nominative plural)
kynteni (accusative nominative singular)
kynteni (accusative nominative plural)
kynteni (accusative genitive singular)
kynteni (accusative genitive plural)
kynteni (genitive singular)
kynsieni (genitive plural)
kyntteni (genitive plural rare)
kynttäni (partitive singular)
kynsiäni (partitive plural)
kynnessäni (inessive singular)
kynsissäni (inessive plural)
kynnestäni (elative singular)
kynsistäni (elative plural)
kynteeni (illative singular)
kynsiini (illative plural)
kynnelläni (adessive singular)
kynsilläni (adessive plural)
kynneltäni (ablative singular)
kynsiltäni (ablative plural)
kynnelleni (allative singular)
kynsilleni (allative plural)
kyntenäni (essive singular)
kynsinäni (essive plural)
kynnekseni (singular translative)
kynsikseni (plural translative)
kynnettäni (abessive singular)
kynsittäni (abessive plural)
kynsineni (comitative plural)
kyntesi (nominative singular)
kyntesi (nominative plural)
kyntesi (accusative nominative singular)
kyntesi (accusative nominative plural)
kyntesi (accusative genitive singular)
kyntesi (accusative genitive plural)
kyntesi (genitive singular)
kynsiesi (genitive plural)
kynttesi (genitive plural rare)
kynttäsi (partitive singular)
kynsiäsi (partitive plural)
kynnessäsi (inessive singular)
kynsissäsi (inessive plural)
kynnestäsi (elative singular)
kynsistäsi (elative plural)
kynteesi (illative singular)
kynsiisi (illative plural)
kynnelläsi (adessive singular)
kynsilläsi (adessive plural)
kynneltäsi (ablative singular)
kynsiltäsi (ablative plural)
kynnellesi (allative singular)
kynsillesi (allative plural)
kyntenäsi (essive singular)
kynsinäsi (essive plural)
kynneksesi (singular translative)
kynsiksesi (plural translative)
kynnettäsi (abessive singular)
kynsittäsi (abessive plural)
kynsinesi (comitative plural)
kyntemme (nominative singular)
kyntemme (nominative plural)
kyntemme (accusative nominative singular)
kyntemme (accusative nominative plural)
kyntemme (accusative genitive singular)
kyntemme (accusative genitive plural)
kyntemme (genitive singular)
kynsiemme (genitive plural)
kynttemme (genitive plural rare)
kynttämme (partitive singular)
kynsiämme (partitive plural)
kynnessämme (inessive singular)
kynsissämme (inessive plural)
kynnestämme (elative singular)
kynsistämme (elative plural)
kynteemme (illative singular)
kynsiimme (illative plural)
kynnellämme (adessive singular)
kynsillämme (adessive plural)
kynneltämme (ablative singular)
kynsiltämme (ablative plural)
kynnellemme (allative singular)
kynsillemme (allative plural)
kyntenämme (essive singular)
kynsinämme (essive plural)
kynneksemme (singular translative)
kynsiksemme (plural translative)
kynnettämme (abessive singular)
kynsittämme (abessive plural)
kynsinemme (comitative plural)
kyntenne (nominative singular)
kyntenne (nominative plural)
kyntenne (accusative nominative singular)
kyntenne (accusative nominative plural)
kyntenne (accusative genitive singular)
kyntenne (accusative genitive plural)
kyntenne (genitive singular)
kynsienne (genitive plural)
kynttenne (genitive plural rare)
kynttänne (partitive singular)
kynsiänne (partitive plural)
kynnessänne (inessive singular)
kynsissänne (inessive plural)
kynnestänne (elative singular)
kynsistänne (elative plural)
kynteenne (illative singular)
kynsiinne (illative plural)
kynnellänne (adessive singular)
kynsillänne (adessive plural)
kynneltänne (ablative singular)
kynsiltänne (ablative plural)
kynnellenne (allative singular)
kynsillenne (allative plural)
kyntenänne (essive singular)
kynsinänne (essive plural)
kynneksenne (singular translative)
kynsiksenne (plural translative)
kynnettänne (abessive singular)
kynsittänne (abessive plural)
kynsinenne (comitative plural)
kyntensä (nominative singular)
kyntensä (nominative plural)
kyntensä (accusative nominative singular)
kyntensä (accusative nominative plural)
kyntensä (accusative genitive singular)
kyntensä (accusative genitive plural)
kyntensä (genitive singular)
kynsiensä (genitive plural)
kynttensä (genitive plural rare)
kynttään (partitive singular)
kynttänsä (partitive singular)
kynsiään (partitive plural)
kynsiänsä (partitive plural)
kynnessään (inessive singular)
kynnessänsä (inessive singular)
kynsissään (inessive plural)
kynsissänsä (inessive plural)
kynnestään (elative singular)
kynnestänsä (elative singular)
kynsistään (elative plural)
kynsistänsä (elative plural)
kynteensä (illative singular)
kynsiinsä (illative plural)
kynnellään (adessive singular)
kynnellänsä (adessive singular)
kynsillään (adessive plural)
kynsillänsä (adessive plural)
kynneltään (ablative singular)
kynneltänsä (ablative singular)
kynsiltään (ablative plural)
kynsiltänsä (ablative plural)
kynnelleen (allative singular)
kynnellensä (allative singular)
kynsilleen (allative plural)
kynsillensä (allative plural)
kyntenään (essive singular)
kyntenänsä (essive singular)
kynsinään (essive plural)
kynsinänsä (essive plural)
kynnekseen (singular translative)
kynneksensä (singular translative)
kynsikseen (plural translative)
kynsiksensä (plural translative)
kynnettään (abessive singular)
kynnettänsä (abessive singular)
kynsittään (abessive plural)
kynsittänsä (abessive plural)
kynsineen (comitative plural)
kynsinensä (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *künci, from Proto-Uralic *künče. Cognates include Estonian küüs, Ter Sami kannc, Erzya кенже (kenže).

(mechanics) dog (any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection)


braccio

it-noun

braccio m (plural (in most meanings) braccia f or (in the figurative meanings "branch (of a railway/railroad or river), wing (of a building), arm (of a cross, crane, of scales), strait, isthmus") bracci m, diminutive braccìno or braccétto, augmentative braccióne, diminutive-augmentative bracciòtto (“chubby little arm”))

Inherited from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn). Compare Sicilian vrazzu.

inh+

(mechanics) arm (of a crane, of a cross, of scales, of a candelabrum, etc.)


motion

en-noun

motion (countable and uncountable, plural motions)

Inherited from Middle English mocioun, mocion, from Anglo-Norman motion, Middle French motion, and their etymon Latin mōtiō (“movement, motion”), related to movēre, from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move”).

der

perpetual motion machine of the first kind

perpetual motion machine of the second kind

[...] three 2-4-2 tank engines were secured from the Hunslet Engine Co. of Leeds. As the line began on the Quay in Bideford, the locomotives had their motion encased, as shown in the illustrations on page 414.

1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Bideford, Westward Ho! & Appledore Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:

(mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.


press

en-verb

press (third-person singular simple present presses, present participle pressing, simple past and past participle pressed or prest)

presses (present singular third-person)
pressing (participle present)
pressed (participle past)
pressed (past)
prest (participle past)
prest (past)

From Middle English pressen (“to crowd, thring, press”), from Old French presser (“to press”) (Modern French presser) from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere "to press". Displaced native Middle English thringen (“to press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þringan (“to press, crowd”)), Middle English thrasten (“to press, force, urge”) (from Old English þrǣstan (“to press, force”)), Old English þryscan (“to press”), Old English þȳwan (“to press, impress”).

cog

(transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.


diaphragm

/ˈdaɪəˌfɹæm/

From Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma, “partition”), from διά (diá, “across”) and φράγμα (phrágma, “barrier”), from the verb φράσσω (phrássō).

мембра́на

anatomy: separating membrane or sheet of muscle

There also were five broken panes of glass on the two huge, rubberlike diaphragms that equalize air pressure within the dome as the artificial atmosphere expands and contracts with temperature variations, he said.

1994 May 4, “Two Former Biosphere Workers Are Accused of Sabotaging Dome”, in The Associated Press:

(mechanics) A flexible membrane separating two chambers and fixed around its periphery that distends into one or other chamber as the difference in the pressure in the chambers varies.


autonomy

en-noun

autonomy (countable and uncountable, plural autonomies)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ (autonomĭ́ā, “freedom to use its own laws, independence”), from αὐτόνομος (autónomos, “living under one's own laws, independent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, “-y, -ia”, nominal suffix). By surface analysis, auto- (“self”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).

surf

...[T]he fact that a scientific theory finds applications to a wide variety of different phenomena does not imply anything about the autonomy of this theory from deeper physical laws.

1992, Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory, Pantheon Books, page 41:

(mechanics, uncountable) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.


rack

From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken.

Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel.

1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 767:

The ladder-type Riggenbach rack is the one in use on both systems.

1960 December, 'Voyageur', “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:

(mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.

(mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.


butt

From Middle English but, butte (“goal, mark, butt of land”), from Old English byt, bytt (“small piece of land”) and *butt (attested in diminutive Old English buttuc (“end, small piece of land”) > English buttock), from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰnós (“bottom”), later thematic variant of Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn ~ *bʰudʰn-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). Cognate with Norwegian butt (“stump, block”), Icelandic bútur (“piece, fragment”), Low German butt (“blunt, clumsy”). Influenced by Old French but, butte (“but, mark”), ultimately from the same Germanic source. Compare also Albanian bythë (“buttocks”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of vessel”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) and Sanskrit बुध्न (budhná, “bottom”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to bottom, boot.
 PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn.

приклад

larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end

perä

end of something, often distinguished from other end

(countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.

(mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.


sheaf

From Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”).
Cognates
Akin to West Frisian skeaf (“sheaf”), Dutch schoof (“sheaf”), German Schaub, Old Norse skauf (“a fox's tail”). Compare further Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 (skuft, “hair of the head”), German Schopf (“tuft”).


комар

ru-noun+

кома́р • (komár) m anim (genitive комара́, nominative plural комары́, genitive plural комаро́в, relational adjective комари́ный, diminutive кома́рик)

кома́р (canonical)
komár (romanization)
комара́ (genitive)
комары́ (nominative plural)
комаро́в (genitive plural)
комари́ный (adjective relational)
кома́рик (diminutive)
кома́р (nominative singular)
комары́ (nominative plural)
комара́ (genitive singular)
комаро́в (genitive plural)
комару́ (dative singular)
комара́м (dative plural)
комара́ (accusative singular)
комаро́в (accusative plural)
комаро́м (instrumental singular)
комара́ми (instrumental plural)
комаре́ (prepositional singular)
комара́х (plural prepositional)

→ Yakut: кумаар (kumaar)

Dolgan: кумаар (kumaar)

→ Yiddish: קאָמאַר (komar)


гусеница

гу́сеница • (gúsenica) f anim or f inan (genitive гу́сеницы, nominative plural гу́сеницы, genitive plural гу́сениц, relational adjective гу́сеничный, diminutive гу́сеничка)

гу́сеница (canonical)
gúsenica (romanization)
гу́сеницы (genitive)
гу́сеницы (nominative plural)
гу́сениц (genitive plural)
гу́сеничный (adjective relational)
гу́сеничка (diminutive)
гу́сеница (nominative singular)
гу́сеницы (nominative plural)
гу́сеницы (genitive singular)
гу́сениц (genitive plural)
гу́сенице (dative singular)
гу́сеницам (dative plural)
гу́сеницу (accusative animate singular)
гу́сениц (accusative animate plural)
гу́сеницу (accusative inanimate singular)
гу́сеницы (accusative inanimate plural)
гу́сеницей (instrumental singular)
гу́сеницею (instrumental singular)
гу́сеницами (instrumental plural)
гу́сенице (prepositional singular)
гу́сеницах (plural prepositional)
гу́сеница (dated nominative singular)
гу́сеницы (dated nominative plural)
гу́сеницы (dated genitive singular)
гу́сеницъ (dated genitive plural)
гу́сеницѣ (dated dative singular)
гу́сеницамъ (dated dative plural)
гу́сеницу (accusative animate dated singular)
гу́сеницъ (accusative animate dated plural)
гу́сеницу (accusative dated inanimate singular)
гу́сеницы (accusative dated inanimate plural)
гу́сеницей (dated instrumental singular)
гу́сеницею (dated instrumental singular)
гу́сеницами (dated instrumental plural)
гу́сеницѣ (dated prepositional singular)
гу́сеницахъ (dated plural prepositional)

[ˈɡusʲɪnʲɪt͡sə]

Ru-гусеница.ogg

Cognate with Old Church Slavonic юсеница (jusenica), Ukrainian гу́сениця (húsenycja), Bulgarian гъсе́ница (gǎsénica), Serbo-Croatian гу̏сеница/gȕsenica/гу̏сјеница/gȕsjenica, Slovene gosẹ̑nica, Czech housenka, Slovak húsenica, Old Polish wąsienica, Polish gąsienica, Upper Sorbian husańca, Lower Sorbian guseńca. Probably from Proto-Slavic *ǫsěnica. The initial г- (g-) is prothetic or by conflation with Common Slavonic гоущерица (gušterica, “lizard”) (Russian я́щерица (jáščerica)), and is not related to гусь (gusʹ, “goose”).

(mechanical, inanimate) caterpillar track


cyborg

cyborg (nominative singular)
cyborgi (nominative plural)
cyborga (genitive singular)
cyborgów (genitive plural)
cyborgowi (dative singular)
cyborgom (dative plural)
cyborga (accusative singular)
cyborgi (accusative plural)
cyborgiem (instrumental singular)
cyborgami (instrumental plural)
cyborgu (locative singular)
cyborgach (locative plural)
cyborgu (singular vocative)
cyborgi (plural vocative)

Orthographic borrowing from English cyborg.

obor

(robotics, science fiction) cyborg (being which is part machine and part organic)


gorge

From Middle English gorge (“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), a borrowing from Old French gorge (“throat”) (modern French gorge (“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin *gorga, *gurga, from Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa (“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia (“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”). Doublet of gour.

cog

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But as the rope muſt lead the pulley, or the pulley the rope, when there is room to apprehend that the rope may not ſlide upon the pulley, the gorge is hollowed in the form of an angle, or ſtuck with points,[…].

1761 May, “Elements of Philosophy, […] Illustrating the Mechanical Powers of Balances, Levers, Pulleys, &c. and Some Observations as to the Center of Gravity and Equilibres. [Of Pulleys and Moufles or Mousled Pulleys.]”, in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: […], volume CXCV, number XXVIII, London: Published […] [b]y John Hinton […], →OCLC, page 256, column 1:

A cord, in passing round a pulley, lies in a groove, sometimes called the gorge of the pulley; if the object of the pulley is merely to support, guide, or strain the cord, the gorge may be considerably wider than the cord; if the pulley is to drive or to be driven by the cord, so as to transmit motive power, the gorge must in general fit the cord closely, or even be of a triangular shape, so as to hold it tight.

1869, William John Macquorn Rankine, “Of Elementary Combinations in Mechanism”, in A Manual of Machinery and Millwork, London: Charles Griffin and Company, […], →OCLC, part I (Geometry of Machinery), section V (Connection by Bands), paragraph 172, page 187:

(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.


indifferent

en-adj

indifferent (comparative more indifferent, superlative most indifferent)

more indifferent (comparative)
most indifferent (superlative)

From Old French indifferent, from Latin indifferens.

(mechanics) Being in the state of neutral equilibrium.


corona

→ Karao: korona

Inherited from Old Spanish corona, from Latin corōna (“crown”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”).

der

(mechanics) larger part of a pair of gear wheels


flange

en-verb

flange (third-person singular simple present flanges, present participle flanging, simple past and past participle flanged)

flanges (present singular third-person)
flanging (participle present)
flanged (participle past)
flanged (past)

From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.

der

(transitive, mechanics) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.


spline

Mid-1700s East Anglian dialect. Origin uncertain but perhaps from Old Danish splind or North Frisian splinj and ultimately related to the root of splinter.

(mechanics) Ridges or teeth on a drive shaft that mesh with grooves in a mating piece and transfer torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between them.


beam

From Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with West Frisian beam (“tree”), Saterland Frisian Boom (“tree”), Dutch boom (“tree”), German Low German Boom (“tree”), German Baum (“tree”), Luxembourgish Bam (“tree”), Albanian bimë (“a plant”). Doublet of boom.
The original English meaning of beam ("tree") is preserved in some compound words such as quickbeam.
The verb is from Middle English bemen, from Old English bēamian (“to shine, to cast forth rays or beams of light”), from the noun.

inh

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto V:

(mechanical) The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.

(mechanical) In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.


detonation

en-noun

detonation (countable and uncountable, plural detonations)

From French détonation; equivalent to detonate + -ion.

(mechanical engineering) Engine knocking, a type of improper combustion in gasoline piston engines.

detonáció

mechanical engineering: engine knocking, a type of improper combustion in gasoline piston engines


channel

→ Japanese: チャンネル (channeru)

→ Korean: 채널 (chaeneol)

→ Welsh: sianel

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

kanal

communication: single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation

kanaal

broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television

The channel is not very efficient as a beam or column when used alone, but built-up members may be constructed of channels assembled together with other structural shapes and connected by rivets or welds.

1960, “Structural Shapes”, in Construction Materials, Concrete Construction, and Engineer Computations, U.S. Government Printing Office:

(construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.


swivel

en-noun

swivel (countable and uncountable, plural swivels)

From Middle English swyvel, swivel, from a derivative of Old English swīfan (“to revolve”), + -el, an instrumental suffix, equivalent to swive + -el.

The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.

1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

(mechanical) A piece, such as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.


pedestal

From Middle French piédestal from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”).

uder

(machining) A pillow block; a low housing.


giocare

it-verb

giocàre (first-person singular present giòco, first-person singular past historic giocài, past participle giocàto, auxiliary avére)

giocàre [auxiliary avere] (canonical)
giòco (first-person present singular)
giocài (first-person historic past singular)
giocàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
giocàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
giocàndo (gerund)
giocànte (participle present)
giocàto (participle past)
giòco (first-person indicative present singular)
giòchi (indicative present second-person singular)
giòca (indicative present singular third-person)
giochiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
giocàte (indicative plural present second-person)
giòcano (indicative plural present third-person)
giocàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
giocàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
giocàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
giocavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
giocavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
giocàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
giocài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
giocàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
giocò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
giocàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
giocàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
giocàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
giocherò (first-person future indicative singular)
giocherài (future indicative second-person singular)
giocherà (future indicative singular third-person)
giocherémo (first-person future indicative plural)
giocheréte (future indicative plural second-person)
giocherànno (future indicative plural third-person)
giocherèi (conditional first-person singular)
giocherésti (conditional second-person singular)
giocherèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
giocherébbe (conditional singular third-person)
giocherémmo (conditional first-person plural)
giocheréste (conditional plural second-person)
giocherèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
giocherébbero (conditional plural third-person)
giòchi (first-person present singular subjunctive)
giòchi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
giòchi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
giochiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
giochiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
giòchino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
giocàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
giocàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
giocàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
giocàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
giocàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
giocàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
giòca (imperative second-person singular)
giòchi (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
giochiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
giocàte (imperative plural second-person)
giòchino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
giocàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
giòchi (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
giochiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
giocàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
giòchino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
giocàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
giocàndo (gerund)
giocànte (participle present)
giocàto (participle past)
giòco (first-person indicative present singular)
giuòco (first-person indicative present rare singular)
giòchi (indicative present second-person singular)
giuòchi (indicative present rare second-person singular)
giòca (indicative present singular third-person)
giuòca (indicative present rare singular third-person)
giochiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
giocàte (indicative plural present second-person)
giòcano (indicative plural present third-person)
giuòcano (indicative plural present rare third-person)
giocàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
giocàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
giocàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
giocavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
giocavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
giocàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
giocài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
giocàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
giocò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
giocàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
giocàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
giocàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
giocherò (first-person future indicative singular)
giocherài (future indicative second-person singular)
giocherà (future indicative singular third-person)
giocherémo (first-person future indicative plural)
giocheréte (future indicative plural second-person)
giocherànno (future indicative plural third-person)
giocherèi (conditional first-person singular)
giocherésti (conditional second-person singular)
giocherèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
giocherébbe (conditional singular third-person)
giocherémmo (conditional first-person plural)
giocheréste (conditional plural second-person)
giocherèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
giocherébbero (conditional plural third-person)
giòchi (first-person present singular subjunctive)
giuòchi (first-person present rare singular subjunctive)
giòchi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
giuòchi (present rare second-person singular subjunctive)
giòchi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
giuòchi (present rare singular subjunctive third-person)
giochiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
giochiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
giòchino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
giuòchino (plural present rare subjunctive third-person)
giocàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
giocàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
giocàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
giocàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
giocàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
giocàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
giòca (imperative second-person singular)
giuòca (imperative rare second-person singular)
giòchi (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
giuòchi (formal imperative rare second-person-semantically singular third-person)
giochiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
giocàte (imperative plural second-person)
giòchino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
giuòchino (formal imperative plural rare second-person-semantically third-person)
giocàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
giòchi (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
giuòchi (formal imperative negative rare second-person-semantically singular third-person)
giochiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
giocàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
giòchino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
giuòchino (formal imperative negative plural rare second-person-semantically third-person)

Questo ingranaggio gioca un po' troppo

(mechanical engineering) to have backlash (of a mechanism)


våg

våga (definite singular)
våger (indefinite plural)
vågene (definite plural)

(measure unit): Russenorsk: våga

From Old Norse vág f, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”).


motor

→ Ye'kwana: motode


zoccolo

→ Catalan: sòcol

→ English: zoccolo

→ French: socle (see there for further descendants)

→ Occitan: sòcol

→ Russian: цоколь (cokolʹ)

From Latin socculus, diminutive of soccus (“sock, slipper”). Compare Spanish zócalo.


chuck

en-noun

chuck (countable and uncountable, plural chucks)

1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, page 88,
I have had a chuck of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.

Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks.

1912, Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book, page 322:

2003, Julie K. Petersen, “chuck”, entry in Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary, page 181,
A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has chucks, they are typically either clamping chucks or vacuum chucks.

The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepᵀᴹ is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.

2008, Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice, page 30:

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.


inclined plane

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On this railway there were three inclined planes of the self-acting type, the full wagons pulling up the empty.

1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Fordell Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 188:

(mechanics) One of the simple machines; a sloping surface such as a ramp such that an object can be raised with less effort than being lifted vertically.


momentum

Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin mōmentum.

(mechanics) of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.


momentum

la-noun

mōmentum n (genitive mōmentī); second declension

mōmentum (canonical neuter)
mōmentī (genitive)
mōmentum (nominative singular)
mōmenta (nominative plural)
mōmentī (genitive singular)
mōmentōrum (genitive plural)
mōmentō (dative singular)
mōmentīs (dative plural)
mōmentum (accusative singular)
mōmenta (accusative plural)
mōmentō (ablative singular)
mōmentīs (ablative plural)
mōmentum (singular vocative)
mōmenta (plural vocative)

Albanian: mënd

Asturian: momentu

Catalan: moment

Dutch: moment

→ English: momentum

Esperanto: momento

Friulian: moment

Galician: momento

German: Moment

Irish: móimint

Italian: momento

Ladin: mument, mumënt

Old French: moment

→ Middle English: moment

English: moment

Middle French: moment

French: moment

→ Romanian: moment

→ Middle Dutch: moment

desctree

Dutch: moment
Afrikaans: moment
→ Indonesian: momen

Occitan: moment

Polish: moment

Portuguese: momento

Romansch: mument, mumaint

Russian: моме́нт (momént)

Sardinian: mamentu, mementu, momentu

Scottish Gaelic: mòmaid

Sicilian: mumentu

Spanish: momento

Venetan: momento, mumento

[moːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]

From *movimentum (compare later Medieval Latin movimentum), from Proto-Italic *mowementom. Equivalent to moveō (“move, set in motion; excite”) + -mentum (“suffix used to forming nouns from verbs”).

(New Latin, physics, mechanics) moment (product of a distance and physical quantity)


blank

From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.

cog

(mechanics, engineering) A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .

Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].

(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].


idle

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel (“idleness”), from the adjective (see above).

(mechanical engineering) The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.


bearing

From Middle English bering, beringe, berynge, equivalent to bear + -ing.

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.


dado

Borrowed from Spanish dado (“die”), from Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or alternatively from Latin dātum. Compare Malay dadu. See also datos and days.


journal

From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.

(mechanical engineering) the part of a rotating shaft that rests on the bearing


cutting

en-noun

cutting (countable and uncountable, plural cuttings)

Boring, drilling, milling, and turning are all different kinds of metal cutting processes.

Metal-cutting tools often have two cutting edges, both of which are angled to the direction of cutting, and in round-nosed tools the inclination continuously varies [...].

2009, Tony Atkins, “Slice–Push Ratio: Oblique Cutting and Curved Blades, Scissors, Guillotining and Drilling”, in The Science and Engineering of Cutting: The Mechanics and Processes of Separating, Scratching and Puncturing Biomaterials, Metals and Non-metals, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Amsterdam: Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, section 5.1 (Introduction), page 111:

(uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.


compliance

compliance (countable and uncountable, plural compliances)

(mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility


impulsive

en-adj

impulsive (comparative more impulsive, superlative most impulsive)

more impulsive (comparative)
most impulsive (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French impulsif, from Latin impulsivus.

(mechanics) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous – said of forces.

impulsief

(mechanics) acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous


simple harmonic motion

en-noun

simple harmonic motion (plural simple harmonic motions)

(mathematics, mechanics) oscillating motion (as of a pendulum) in which the acceleration of the oscillator has an equal magnitude but opposite direction to the displacement of it from the equilibrium position.


pendulum

Borrowed from the neuter of Latin pendulus (“hanging”).

(clocks, mechanics) A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.

The pendulum can be seen to be swinging in favour of rail, as with each issue of RAIL comes news of further intermodal service expansion.

2021 October 20, Industry Insider, “The wheels turn slowly”, in RAIL, number 942, page 68:

(by extension) The tendency of a situation to oscillate (between two extremes).


top dead center

(mechanical) A position in the cycle of a piston engine wherein the piston is at the topmost point in its stroke. In a four-stroke cycle, TDC occurs twice: at the end of the compression stroke and at the end of the exhaust stroke.

(mechanical) The reference mark on a flywheel (and engine block) indicating the engine is in this position, when aligned.


kinetics

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From Ancient Greek κινητικός (kinētikós, “kinetic”).

der

(mechanics) The branch of mechanics concerned with motion of objects, as well as the reason i.e. the forces acting on such bodies. This, along with kinematics constitute dynamics, which is concerned purely with the effects of forces on moving bodies.


gioco

Inherited from Latin iocus. Compare English joke.


dipstick

en-verb

dipstick (third-person singular simple present dipsticks, present participle dipsticking, simple past and past participle dipsticked)

dipsticks (present singular third-person)
dipsticking (participle present)
dipsticked (participle past)
dipsticked (past)

If one of the fuel gauges is inoperative (flight is not permitted if both have failed), the tanks have to be dipsticked before and after each fueling to confirm the aircraft's fuel status.

(mechanical engineering) To measure the level of a fluid using a dipstick.


two-stroke

This motorbike has a two-stroke engine.

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

(mechanical) Of or relating to a design of internal combustion engine, the working cycle of which is completed during two strokes of the piston.


piston

(mechanics) A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)


piston

→ Catalan: pistó

→ English: piston

→ Greek: πιστόνι (pistóni)

→ Romanian: piston

16th century in the sense of "pestle", borrowed from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pistāre, from the root pīnsō (“to crush”).


zapata

(mechanics) washer (flat disk placed beneath a nut or at some joint)


bulkhead

(mechanics) A partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.


documentation

en-noun

documentation (countable and uncountable, plural documentations)

From document + -ation or Medieval Latin documentātio.

(computing, mechanical engineering) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.

dokumentimi

documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program


lager

lager (indefinite nominative singular)
lagers (genitive indefinite singular)
lagret (definite nominative singular)
lagrets (definite genitive singular)
lager (indefinite nominative plural)
lagers (genitive indefinite plural)
lagren (definite nominative plural)
lagrens (definite genitive plural)

German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-West Germanic *legr. Doublet of läger (“place to sleep”).

(mechanical engineering) a bearing (a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction, especially between rotating parts)