See lever in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "back lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "beer lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "front lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lever action"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lever arm"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lever shears"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "pull a lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "ratchet lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "reversing lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "shift lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "side-lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "tuning lever"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁lengʷʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "lever"
},
"expansion": "Middle English lever",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "leveor"
},
"expansion": "Old French leveor",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Old French",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "levier"
},
"expansion": "French levier",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "levātor",
"t": "a lifter"
},
"expansion": "Latin levātor (“a lifter”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "levator"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of levator",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "levers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lever (plural levers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"le‧ver",
"lev‧er"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "levant"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Levant"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "doublet",
"word": "levator"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "alleviate"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "elevator"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "elevate"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "leaven"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "levitator"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "levitate"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mechanics",
"orig": "en:Mechanics",
"parents": [
"Physics",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "15 20 6 9 22 8 2 4 3 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 21 4 6 22 11 2 4 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 20 5 11 23 5 3 4 4 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 22 6 11 23 5 2 3 2 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 20 4 6 23 12 2 3 3 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Lao translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 19 3 6 23 7 2 3 3 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with West Frisian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-noun-ps7TYKOf",
"links": [
[
"mechanics",
"mechanics"
],
[
"rigid",
"rigid"
],
[
"turn",
"turn"
],
[
"axis",
"axis"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"mechanical-engineering",
"mechanics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mechanics",
"orig": "en:Mechanics",
"parents": [
"Physics",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "15 20 6 9 22 8 2 4 3 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 21 4 6 22 11 2 4 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 20 5 11 23 5 3 4 4 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 22 6 11 23 5 2 3 2 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 20 4 6 23 12 2 3 3 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Lao translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 19 3 6 23 7 2 3 3 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with West Frisian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1952 September, “Modernised Pull-and-Push Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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.",
"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."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-noun-Q4ZQ6144",
"links": [
[
"mechanics",
"mechanics"
],
[
"rigid",
"rigid"
],
[
"turn",
"turn"
],
[
"axis",
"axis"
],
[
"bar",
"bar"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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.",
"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."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"mechanical-engineering",
"mechanics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a switch or a button)."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-noun-OyvM4LKw",
"links": [
[
"trigger",
"trigger"
],
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"switch",
"switch"
],
[
"button",
"button"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rǎ́čka",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ръ́чка"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "páka"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "hendel"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "baskulo"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "vipu"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "levier"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "manette"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "travón"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "berḳeṭi",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "ბერკეტი"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hebel"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mochlós",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μοχλός"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "kar"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "fogantyú"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "levetta"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jire",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "지레"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alavanca"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "páka"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 7 74 7 4 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "spak"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mechanics",
"orig": "en:Mechanics",
"parents": [
"Physics",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "18 20 5 11 23 5 3 4 4 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 22 6 11 23 5 2 3 2 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 March 5, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-noun-RwcRModQ",
"links": [
[
"mechanics",
"mechanics"
],
[
"bar",
"bar"
],
[
"capstan bar",
"capstan bar"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"mechanical-engineering",
"mechanics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mechanics",
"orig": "en:Mechanics",
"parents": [
"Physics",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "16 18 18 2 6 27 2 2 1 1 1 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 19 3 6 28 4 4 4 4 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Albanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 20 6 9 22 8 2 4 3 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 8 25 8 2 3 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 24 9 3 4 4 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bashkir translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Basque translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 26 7 3 4 4 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Belarusian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 25 9 2 3 3 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bengali translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 27 7 3 4 4 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 9 23 9 2 3 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Burmese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 26 4 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Central Melanau translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 20 3 7 38 1 1 1 1 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Classical Nahuatl translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 21 4 6 22 11 2 4 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 31 5 2 3 3 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 24 6 5 6 6 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 2 6 27 4 3 4 4 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Estonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 25 5 5 5 5 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 3 6 24 11 2 3 3 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Georgian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 19 4 7 27 4 3 4 4 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 20 5 11 23 5 3 4 4 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 24 9 3 4 4 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Gujarati translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 19 3 6 24 9 3 4 4 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 19 5 6 25 6 3 4 3 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 22 6 11 23 5 2 3 2 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 20 2 6 30 4 3 3 3 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ido translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 24 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 19 3 6 28 4 3 4 4 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 19 3 6 28 4 3 4 4 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 3 6 25 9 3 4 4 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Khmer translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 20 4 6 23 12 2 3 3 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Lao translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 19 3 6 28 4 3 4 4 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latvian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 24 7 3 5 5 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malay translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 19 3 6 28 4 3 4 4 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malayalam translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 17 4 8 25 8 2 3 3 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 27 6 2 3 3 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mongolian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 5 7 27 6 3 4 4 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Newar translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 24 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 21 1 6 34 2 1 1 1 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 19 3 6 28 4 3 4 4 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Pashto translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Persian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 17 3 5 21 11 4 5 5 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 26 6 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 19 3 6 28 4 3 4 4 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 25 6 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovene translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 20 2 6 28 4 3 4 4 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tajik translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 24 9 3 4 4 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tamil translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 3 6 25 10 3 4 4 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Telugu translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 24 9 3 4 4 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkmen translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 3 6 26 4 3 4 4 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Urdu translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Uzbek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 25 7 3 4 4 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 18 4 6 26 7 3 4 4 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Walloon translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 19 3 6 23 7 2 3 3 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with West Frisian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 17 17 2 5 26 2 3 1 2 2 6",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Simple machines",
"orig": "en:Simple machines",
"parents": [
"Machines",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-noun-0hnKnIGF",
"links": [
[
"mechanics",
"mechanics"
],
[
"arm",
"arm"
],
[
"rock shaft",
"rock shaft"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"mechanical-engineering",
"mechanics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "17 21 4 6 22 11 2 4 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 20 4 6 23 12 2 3 3 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Lao translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.1:",
"text": "My lord, I brained him with a lever my neighbour lent me, and he stood by and cried, ‘Strike home, old boy!’",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A crowbar."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-noun-Zz0soLjA",
"links": [
[
"crowbar",
"crowbar"
]
],
"qualifier": "except in generalized senses below",
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, except in generalized senses below) A crowbar."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.və/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg/En-uk-lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "II US lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg/II_US_lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "leaver"
},
{
"homophone": "Lever"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "hefboom"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lloz"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "levë"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "rāfiʕa",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "رَافِعَة"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "lcak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "լծակ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ling"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "halmawır",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "һалмауыр"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "palanka"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "altxaprima"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padvážnik",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "падва́жнік"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vahár",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "вага́р"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ryčáh",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рыча́г"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "libhar",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "লিভার"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lost",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лост"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "kut",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ကုတ်"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alçaprem"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "mel",
"lang": "Central Melanau",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tuwaih"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "mel",
"lang": "Central Melanau",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "suwil"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "槓桿"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gànggǎn",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "杠杆"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "nci",
"lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "cuammītl"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "páka"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vægtstang"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hefboom"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "baskulo"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "levilo"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "kang"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "vipu"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "levier"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cambón"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "panca"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perpau"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palferro"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alzaprema"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palastra"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mourón"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gurra"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bimbarra"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "berḳeṭi",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ბერკეტი"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hebel"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mochlós",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μοχλός"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "mokhlós",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μοχλός"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "uccālak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ઉચ્ચાલક"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "manóf",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "מָנוֹף"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "uttolak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "उत्तोलक"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "līvar",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "लीवर"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "emelő"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "emelőrúd"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vogarstöng"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lyftistöng"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tuas"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pengungkit"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "luamhán"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "leva"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"alt": "てこ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "teko",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "梃子"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "iıntırek",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "иінтірек"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "kɔɔkumnŏəh",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "គម្នាស់"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "dɑɑngthləng",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ដងថ្លឹង"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jire",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "지레"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "rıcag",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "рычаг"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "līn",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ລີ້ນ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "sa lǣng",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ຊະແລງ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "mai ngat",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ໄມ້ງັດ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vectis"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "svira"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "svirtis"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "svertas"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lost",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лост"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tuil"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tuas"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pengumpil"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pengungkil"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pengungkit"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uttōlakaṁ",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ഉത്തോലകം"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "hua"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tūwhiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "kauwhiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "xöšüüreg",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "хөшүүрэг"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "new",
"lang": "Newar",
"roman": "thĩbha:",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "थिँभः"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vektstang"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vektstong"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "rāfe'á",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "رافعه"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "aṛám",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "اړم"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "aramáy",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "اړمی"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "xriz",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خريز"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "daǧǝ́ray",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "دغری"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "duresí",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "دورسي"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "ahrom",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "اهرم"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dźwignia"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drążek"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lewar"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wajcha"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alavanca"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pârghie"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ryčág",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рыча́г"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "по̀луга"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pòluga"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "páka"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vzvod"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hävstång"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "dalawit"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "fašang",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "фашанг"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "fišang",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "фишанг"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "dastak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "дастак"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "nempukōl",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "நெம்புகோல்"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "tulādaṇḍamu",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "తులాదండము"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kaan",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "คาน"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "kaldıraç"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "leňňer"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vážilʹ",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ва́жіль"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidójma",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "підо́йма"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidváha",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "підва́га"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "līvar",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "لیور"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pishang"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "dastak"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "richag"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "đòn bẩy"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "djîsse"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "levî"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hefbeam"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 41 6 7 4 1",
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hefaerm"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lever"
],
"word": "lever"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "compound lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gear lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "leverage"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "lever escapement"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "lever frame"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "lever jack"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "lever watch"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "thrust lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "tire lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "tyre lever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "universal lever"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁lengʷʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "lever"
},
"expansion": "Middle English lever",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "leveor"
},
"expansion": "Old French leveor",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Old French",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "levier"
},
"expansion": "French levier",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "levātor",
"t": "a lifter"
},
"expansion": "Latin levātor (“a lifter”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "levator"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of levator",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "levers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "levering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "levered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "levered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lever (third-person singular simple present levers, present participle levering, simple past and past participle levered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"le‧ver",
"lev‧er"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:",
"text": "Someone found a pick and levered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move with a lever."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-verb-V2n4vUwO",
"links": [
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"lever",
"lever#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To move with a lever."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "90 6 4 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "vivuta"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 4 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "hebeln"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 4 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "megemel"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 4 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "felemel"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "huaranga"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 4 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "alavancar"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 4 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "apalancar"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1:",
"text": "Suddenly he had levered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-22:",
"text": "The guard at the door coughed up blood, and died instantly. Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord. She levered him off the front stoop and into the bushes, then stood up on the tips of her toes to peer through the window in the door.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically)."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-verb-0A0u77xO",
"links": [
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"operate",
"operate"
],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"lever",
"lever#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically)."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2001 April 9, Joshua Cooper Ramo, “Bagging the Butcher”, in Time:",
"text": "He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 December 8, Robert McCrum, “Biographies of the year — review”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope of levering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense)."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-verb-HnXGtkBr",
"links": [
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"lever",
"lever#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense)."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Finance",
"orig": "en:Finance",
"parents": [
"Business",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "15 20 6 9 22 8 2 4 3 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 21 4 6 22 11 2 4 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 20 4 6 23 12 2 3 3 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Lao translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 19 3 6 23 7 2 3 3 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with West Frisian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1989 June 26, “Corporate America wants its privacy”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune:",
"text": "\"The equity holders want you to 'lever up,' use as much debt as you can,\" said David Stanley, chairman of Kansas City-based Payless Cashways,",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-verb-LeMU0OtJ",
"links": [
[
"finance",
"finance#Noun"
],
[
"increase",
"increase"
],
[
"share",
"share"
],
[
"debt",
"debt"
],
[
"capitalization",
"capitalization"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business."
],
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"finance"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 3 3 94",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "finance: to increase the share of debt",
"word": "vivuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 3 3 94",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "finance: to increase the share of debt",
"word": "ampliar capital"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.və/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg/En-uk-lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "II US lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg/II_US_lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "leaver"
},
{
"homophone": "Lever"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "5 46 48 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to use like a lever",
"word": "vivuttaa"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lever"
],
"word": "lever"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*lewbʰ-",
"id": "love"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "lever"
},
"expansion": "Middle English lever",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lief",
"3": "-er"
},
"expansion": "lief + -er",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "lieber",
"t": "rather"
},
"expansion": "German lieber (“rather”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English lever, comparative of leve, leef (“dear, beloved, lief”), equivalent to lief + -er. Related to German lieber (“rather”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "lever (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"le‧ver",
"lev‧er"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -er",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[1531, William Tyndale, transl.], The prophete Ionas […], [Antwerp: Merten de Keyser], chapter iiij:[3]:",
"text": "Now therfore take my life from me / for I had leuer dye then liue.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "[1545?], John Heywood, The Playe Called The Foure PP […], London: […] Wyllyam Myddylton, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, The Play Called The Four PP […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London; Edinburgh: […] T. C. & E. C. Jack, […], 1908, →OCLC, signature [E.ii.], verso:",
"text": "The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1571, John Calvin, “Iohn Calvin to the Godly Readers Sendeth Greeting”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The Psalmes of Dauid and Others. With M. Iohn Caluin’s Commentaries, London: […] Thomas East and Henry Middelton; for Lucas Harison, and G[e]orge Byshop, →OCLC, 1st part:",
"text": "For although they were worthy of any puniſhment: yit had I leuer they might haue flooriſhed in welfare and ſafetie: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 128:",
"text": "For leuer had I die, then ſee his deadly face.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Rather."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-adv-EMu4avOA",
"links": [
[
"Rather",
"rather"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Rather."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "liever"
}
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.və/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg/En-uk-lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "II US lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg/II_US_lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "leaver"
},
{
"homophone": "Lever"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lever"
],
"word": "lever"
}
{
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "lever"
},
"expansion": "French lever",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French lever.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "levers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lever (plural levers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"le‧ver",
"lev‧er"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1742, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters, II.191:",
"text": "We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement:",
"text": "Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A levee."
],
"id": "en-lever-en-noun-7XUeuuS~",
"links": [
[
"levee",
"levee"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A levee."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.və/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg/En-uk-lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "II US lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg/II_US_lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "leaver"
},
{
"homophone": "Lever"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lever"
],
"word": "lever"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁lengʷʰ-",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 14 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of Afrikaans translations",
"Requests for review of Ido translations",
"Rhymes:English/iːvə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/iːvə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ɛvə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɛvə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"Terms with Albanian translations",
"Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
"Terms with Bashkir translations",
"Terms with Basque translations",
"Terms with Belarusian translations",
"Terms with Bengali translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Burmese translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Central Melanau translations",
"Terms with Classical Nahuatl translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Estonian translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Gujarati translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Kazakh translations",
"Terms with Khmer translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
"Terms with Lao translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Latvian translations",
"Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Malayalam translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Mongolian translations",
"Terms with Newar translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Pashto translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Slovene translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Tajik translations",
"Terms with Tamil translations",
"Terms with Telugu translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Turkmen translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Urdu translations",
"Terms with Uzbek translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"Terms with Walloon translations",
"Terms with West Frisian translations",
"en:Simple machines",
"sv:Organs"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "back lever"
},
{
"word": "beer lever"
},
{
"word": "front lever"
},
{
"word": "lever action"
},
{
"word": "lever arm"
},
{
"word": "lever shears"
},
{
"word": "pull a lever"
},
{
"word": "ratchet lever"
},
{
"word": "reversing lever"
},
{
"word": "shift lever"
},
{
"word": "side-lever"
},
{
"word": "tuning lever"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁lengʷʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "lever"
},
"expansion": "Middle English lever",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "leveor"
},
"expansion": "Old French leveor",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Old French",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "levier"
},
"expansion": "French levier",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "levātor",
"t": "a lifter"
},
"expansion": "Latin levātor (“a lifter”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "levator"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of levator",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "levers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lever (plural levers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"le‧ver",
"lev‧er"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "levant"
},
{
"word": "Levant"
},
{
"alt": "doublet",
"word": "levator"
},
{
"word": "alleviate"
},
{
"word": "elevator"
},
{
"word": "elevate"
},
{
"word": "leaven"
},
{
"word": "levitator"
},
{
"word": "levitate"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Mechanics"
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"mechanics",
"mechanics"
],
[
"rigid",
"rigid"
],
[
"turn",
"turn"
],
[
"axis",
"axis"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"mechanical-engineering",
"mechanics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Mechanics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1952 September, “Modernised Pull-and-Push Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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.",
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"mechanics",
"mechanics"
],
[
"rigid",
"rigid"
],
[
"turn",
"turn"
],
[
"axis",
"axis"
],
[
"bar",
"bar"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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.",
"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."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"mechanical-engineering",
"mechanics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a switch or a button)."
],
"links": [
[
"trigger",
"trigger"
],
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"switch",
"switch"
],
[
"button",
"button"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Mechanics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 March 5, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it."
],
"links": [
[
"mechanics",
"mechanics"
],
[
"bar",
"bar"
],
[
"capstan bar",
"capstan bar"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"mechanical-engineering",
"mechanics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Mechanics"
],
"glosses": [
"An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it."
],
"links": [
[
"mechanics",
"mechanics"
],
[
"arm",
"arm"
],
[
"rock shaft",
"rock shaft"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"mechanical-engineering",
"mechanics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.1:",
"text": "My lord, I brained him with a lever my neighbour lent me, and he stood by and cried, ‘Strike home, old boy!’",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A crowbar."
],
"links": [
[
"crowbar",
"crowbar"
]
],
"qualifier": "except in generalized senses below",
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, except in generalized senses below) A crowbar."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.və/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg/En-uk-lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "II US lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg/II_US_lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "leaver"
},
{
"homophone": "Lever"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "hefboom"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lloz"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "levë"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "rāfiʕa",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "رَافِعَة"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "lcak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "լծակ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ling"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "halmawır",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "һалмауыр"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "palanka"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "altxaprima"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padvážnik",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "падва́жнік"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vahár",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "вага́р"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ryčáh",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рыча́г"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "libhar",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "লিভার"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lost",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лост"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "kut",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ကုတ်"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alçaprem"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"code": "mel",
"lang": "Central Melanau",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tuwaih"
},
{
"code": "mel",
"lang": "Central Melanau",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "suwil"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "槓桿"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gànggǎn",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "杠杆"
},
{
"code": "nci",
"lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "cuammītl"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "páka"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vægtstang"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hefboom"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "baskulo"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "levilo"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "kang"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "vipu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "levier"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cambón"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "panca"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perpau"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palferro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alzaprema"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palastra"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mourón"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gurra"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bimbarra"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "berḳeṭi",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ბერკეტი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hebel"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mochlós",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μοχλός"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "mokhlós",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μοχλός"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "uccālak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ઉચ્ચાલક"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "manóf",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "מָנוֹף"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "uttolak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "उत्तोलक"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "līvar",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "लीवर"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "emelő"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "emelőrúd"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vogarstöng"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lyftistöng"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tuas"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pengungkit"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "luamhán"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "leva"
},
{
"alt": "てこ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "teko",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "梃子"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "iıntırek",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "иінтірек"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "kɔɔkumnŏəh",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "គម្នាស់"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "dɑɑngthləng",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ដងថ្លឹង"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jire",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "지레"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "rıcag",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "рычаг"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "līn",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ລີ້ນ"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "sa lǣng",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ຊະແລງ"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "mai ngat",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ໄມ້ງັດ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vectis"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "svira"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "svirtis"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "svertas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lost",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лост"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tuil"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tuas"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pengumpil"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pengungkil"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pengungkit"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uttōlakaṁ",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "ഉത്തോലകം"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "hua"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "tūwhiti"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "kauwhiti"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "xöšüüreg",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "хөшүүрэг"
},
{
"code": "new",
"lang": "Newar",
"roman": "thĩbha:",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "थिँभः"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vektstang"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vektstong"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "rāfe'á",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "رافعه"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "aṛám",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "اړم"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "aramáy",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "اړمی"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "xriz",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خريز"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "daǧǝ́ray",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "دغری"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "duresí",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "دورسي"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "ahrom",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "اهرم"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dźwignia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drążek"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lewar"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wajcha"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alavanca"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pârghie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ryčág",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рыча́г"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "по̀луга"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pòluga"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "páka"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vzvod"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hävstång"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "dalawit"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "fašang",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "фашанг"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "fišang",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "фишанг"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "dastak",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "дастак"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "nempukōl",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "நெம்புகோல்"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "tulādaṇḍamu",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "తులాదండము"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kaan",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "คาน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "kaldıraç"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "leňňer"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vážilʹ",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ва́жіль"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidójma",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "підо́йма"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidváha",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "підва́га"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "līvar",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "لیور"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "pishang"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "dastak"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "richag"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"word": "đòn bẩy"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "djîsse"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "levî"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hefbeam"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "rigid piece",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hefaerm"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rǎ́čka",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ръ́чка"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "páka"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "hendel"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "baskulo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "vipu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "levier"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "manette"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "travón"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "berḳeṭi",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "ბერკეტი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hebel"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mochlós",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μοχλός"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "kar"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "fogantyú"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "levetta"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jire",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"word": "지레"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alavanca"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "páka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "spak"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lever"
],
"word": "lever"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁lengʷʰ-",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 14 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of Afrikaans translations",
"Requests for review of Ido translations",
"Rhymes:English/iːvə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/iːvə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ɛvə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɛvə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"Terms with Albanian translations",
"Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
"Terms with Bashkir translations",
"Terms with Basque translations",
"Terms with Belarusian translations",
"Terms with Bengali translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Burmese translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Central Melanau translations",
"Terms with Classical Nahuatl translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Estonian translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Gujarati translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Kazakh translations",
"Terms with Khmer translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
"Terms with Lao translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Latvian translations",
"Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Malayalam translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Mongolian translations",
"Terms with Newar translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Pashto translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Slovene translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Tajik translations",
"Terms with Tamil translations",
"Terms with Telugu translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Turkmen translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Urdu translations",
"Terms with Uzbek translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"Terms with Walloon translations",
"Terms with West Frisian translations",
"en:Simple machines",
"sv:Organs"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "compound lever"
},
{
"word": "gear lever"
},
{
"word": "leverage"
},
{
"word": "lever escapement"
},
{
"word": "lever frame"
},
{
"word": "lever jack"
},
{
"word": "lever watch"
},
{
"word": "thrust lever"
},
{
"word": "tire lever"
},
{
"word": "tyre lever"
},
{
"word": "universal lever"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁lengʷʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "lever"
},
"expansion": "Middle English lever",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "leveor"
},
"expansion": "Old French leveor",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Old French",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "levier"
},
"expansion": "French levier",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "levātor",
"t": "a lifter"
},
"expansion": "Latin levātor (“a lifter”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "levator"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of levator",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "levers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "levering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "levered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "levered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lever (third-person singular simple present levers, present participle levering, simple past and past participle levered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"le‧ver",
"lev‧er"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:",
"text": "Someone found a pick and levered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move with a lever."
],
"links": [
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"lever",
"lever#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To move with a lever."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1:",
"text": "Suddenly he had levered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-22:",
"text": "The guard at the door coughed up blood, and died instantly. Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord. She levered him off the front stoop and into the bushes, then stood up on the tips of her toes to peer through the window in the door.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically)."
],
"links": [
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"operate",
"operate"
],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"lever",
"lever#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically)."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2001 April 9, Joshua Cooper Ramo, “Bagging the Butcher”, in Time:",
"text": "He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 December 8, Robert McCrum, “Biographies of the year — review”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope of levering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense)."
],
"links": [
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"lever",
"lever#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense)."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Finance"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1989 June 26, “Corporate America wants its privacy”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune:",
"text": "\"The equity holders want you to 'lever up,' use as much debt as you can,\" said David Stanley, chairman of Kansas City-based Payless Cashways,",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business."
],
"links": [
[
"finance",
"finance#Noun"
],
[
"increase",
"increase"
],
[
"share",
"share"
],
[
"debt",
"debt"
],
[
"capitalization",
"capitalization"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business."
],
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"finance"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.və/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg/En-uk-lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "II US lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg/II_US_lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "leaver"
},
{
"homophone": "Lever"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "vivuta"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "hebeln"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "megemel"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "felemel"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "huaranga"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "alavancar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to move with a lever",
"word": "apalancar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to use like a lever",
"word": "vivuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "finance: to increase the share of debt",
"word": "vivuttaa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "finance: to increase the share of debt",
"word": "ampliar capital"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lever"
],
"word": "lever"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adverbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewbʰ- (love)",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms suffixed with -er",
"English terms with homophones",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"Pages with 14 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːvə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/iːvə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ɛvə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɛvə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"en:Simple machines",
"sv:Organs"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*lewbʰ-",
"id": "love"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "lever"
},
"expansion": "Middle English lever",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lief",
"3": "-er"
},
"expansion": "lief + -er",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "lieber",
"t": "rather"
},
"expansion": "German lieber (“rather”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English lever, comparative of leve, leef (“dear, beloved, lief”), equivalent to lief + -er. Related to German lieber (“rather”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "lever (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"le‧ver",
"lev‧er"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[1531, William Tyndale, transl.], The prophete Ionas […], [Antwerp: Merten de Keyser], chapter iiij:[3]:",
"text": "Now therfore take my life from me / for I had leuer dye then liue.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "[1545?], John Heywood, The Playe Called The Foure PP […], London: […] Wyllyam Myddylton, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, The Play Called The Four PP […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London; Edinburgh: […] T. C. & E. C. Jack, […], 1908, →OCLC, signature [E.ii.], verso:",
"text": "The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1571, John Calvin, “Iohn Calvin to the Godly Readers Sendeth Greeting”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The Psalmes of Dauid and Others. With M. Iohn Caluin’s Commentaries, London: […] Thomas East and Henry Middelton; for Lucas Harison, and G[e]orge Byshop, →OCLC, 1st part:",
"text": "For although they were worthy of any puniſhment: yit had I leuer they might haue flooriſhed in welfare and ſafetie: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 128:",
"text": "For leuer had I die, then ſee his deadly face.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Rather."
],
"links": [
[
"Rather",
"rather"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Rather."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.və/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg/En-uk-lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "II US lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg/II_US_lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "leaver"
},
{
"homophone": "Lever"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "liever"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lever"
],
"word": "lever"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms with homophones",
"Pages with 14 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːvə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/iːvə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ɛvə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɛvə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"en:Simple machines",
"sv:Organs"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "lever"
},
"expansion": "French lever",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French lever.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "levers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lever (plural levers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"le‧ver",
"lev‧er"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1742, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters, II.191:",
"text": "We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement:",
"text": "Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A levee."
],
"links": [
[
"levee",
"levee"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A levee."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.və/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg/En-uk-lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-uk-lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "II US lever.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg/II_US_lever.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/II_US_lever.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.vɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "leaver"
},
{
"homophone": "Lever"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lever"
],
"word": "lever"
}
Download raw JSONL data for lever meaning in English (42.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.