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(automotive, American spelling, Canadian spelling) A tire with rubber that remains soft in below-freezing conditions, but gives longer tread life in warm conditions than winter tires
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(automotive, British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ spelling) A tyre with rubber that remains soft in below-freezing conditions, but gives longer tread life in warm conditions than winter tyres
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Preventing something from becoming stuck or jammed. Especially applies to anti-lock brakes, which are designed to continue rotating for better steering control while slowing the vehicle, rather than "locking" and causing the car to skid.
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(weightlifting) Synonym of barbell pad
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(military) A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.
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(military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.
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(transitive, figuratively) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
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(intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
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(chiefly historical) A form of execution, among the ancient Europeans, in which the victim is fastened to a wheel and subjected to blows.
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An external elevator, especially a temporary one up the side of a building that is under construction or repair.
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Alternative form of buck hoist [An external elevator, especially a temporary one up the side of a building that is under construction or repair.]
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Alternative form of buck hoist [An external elevator, especially a temporary one up the side of a building that is under construction or repair.]
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(automotive, largely historical) A jack designed to lift a car by its bumper.
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(slang, figuratively) Something that moves fast, especially a fast train.
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A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system.
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A jack (used to lift up a vehicle)
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A roasting jack powered by weights or springs.
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(transitive, intransitive) To extend (one's neck).
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The lowest gear of a tractor or truck.
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The damage caused to a wheel or tire by curbing (running the wheel or tire into or over a curb).
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(transitive) To move (an object) using a dolly.
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The distance from the effort on a lever to the fulcrum.
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(military, dated) To scale the walls of a fortification.
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(chiefly American spelling) Alternative spelling of flat tyre [A tyre of a motor vehicle that is deflated, especially one deflated because of a puncture when in use.]
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A small object placed under another, vertical object to lift it temporarily.
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(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.
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(figuratively) The final stages of something
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(motor racing) The accelerator pedal.
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(figuratively, by extension) A monotonous, repetitive, unfulfilling activity, especially one in which no progress is achieved.
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A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
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(engineering) The side of a lever on which force is applied.
adj
Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
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The handle of a mechanical jack.
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Alternative form of jack stand [synonym of axle stand]
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A hand lever on various vehicles.
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(always written together, from a Landmine™ developed in 1999 by a US company called Sorinex) A piece of exercise device consisting of a pivoting tube attached to the ground to which a barbell can be fitted to lift it off the ground.
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The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
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A jack constructed of compound levers pivoted together.
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(engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
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(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.
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(physics) The distance between the point of application of a force and the axis.
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A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
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Someone employed to operate a lever.
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A person or tool that levigates.
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Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
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(automotive) A locking differential.
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Alternative form of magslip [(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) Any of a variety of devices that rely on magnetic slip rings to drive a transmitter and receiver that rotate in unison.]
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(engineering) The side of a lever that does useful work.
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To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
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A row variation where the bar is grabbed from the ground for each repetition which forces greater range of motion and precludes momentum.
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A metal cage consisting of support pillars with adjustable bars and hooks, using for supporting a barbell during heavy weightlifting exercises.
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Anything that pulls, but especially a hoist in which a cable is attached to a lever and a ratchet mechanism.
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The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
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(Britain) Alternative spelling of radial tire [A kind of vehicle tire incorporating reinforcing cords distributed radially relative to the hub (at 90 degrees to the direction of travel).]
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A device used to reach something.
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The part of a lever between the load and the fulcrum.
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(automotive) The ground clearance.
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A bearing in which the load is carried by round (e.g. cylindrical or spherical) elements.
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(obsolete) Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan.
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(automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
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Synonym of lateral raise
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(historical) The hitching of additional livestock to a scraper to assist the team pulling it.
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(automotive, slang) A split rim.
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A person whose job involves climbing tall structures like steeples in order to make repairs.
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A kind of bar to lift weight plates upon including additional erectly aligned handles.
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(nautical, transitive) To fix like a toggle iron; to fix fast.
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(dialectal) a wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
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(Britain) Alternative form of tire bead [(Canada, US) the edge of a tire that sits in a groove in the rim.]
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(British spelling) alternative form of tire lever [(American spelling) A tire iron.]
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(chiefly Britain) Alternative spelling of tire-pressure [(US, Canada) the pressure of the air in a vehicle tire]
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A set of exercise apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart and set at different heights.
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(automotive, aviation) A spherical bearing.
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(transitive) To roll along on wheels.
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The use of wheel clamps to penalize motorists.
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(automotive) The spinning of the wheels of a vehicle on the surface of the ground with greatly reduced friction and little movement of the vehicle, especially when starting.
adj
(of a tyre/tire) Having white sidewalls
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The application of a winch.
v
To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
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