Definizione monolingua

lever

lever (third-person singular simple present levers, present participle levering, simple past and past participle levered)

1. (transitive) To move with a lever.

   With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.

2. (figuratively) (transitive) To use, operate like a lever.
3. (chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
   • 1989 Jun 26, “Corporate America wants its privacy”, Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

     ""The equity holders want you to lever up, use as much debt as you can,"" said David Stanley, chairman of Kansas City-based Payless Cashways,

lever (plural levers)

1. (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
   1. Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
   Adverb
   

   lever (not comparable)

   
   
   1. (obsolete) Rather.
      • 1530, John Heywood, The Four PP

        for I had lever be without ye / Then have suche besines about ye

      • 1537, William Tyndale et al, ""Jonah"", in The Byble

        Now therefore take my life from me, for I had lever die then live.

      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene

        For lever had I die than see his deadly face.

Definizione dizionario lever

	leva
	rigid thing turning about an axis, used for transmitting and modifying force and motion
	Asta o sbarra su cui si agisce manualmente per azionare un dispositivo meccanico, aprire o chiudere un circuito elettrico.
	Bar on which manual action is carried out to move a mechanical device, to open or close an electrical circuit.

alzare

alzarsi

far leva su

manovella

Altri significati:

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

small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device

(figuratively) (transitive) To use, operate like a lever.

(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.

(chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.

(obsolete) Rather.

A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button)

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

(transitive) To move with a lever.