Leaver vs Fulcrum - What's the difference?
leaver | fulcrum |
One who leaves.
:He's a leaver , not a stayer: he'll never be happy tied down in one place.
(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.
* It is possible to flick food across the table using your fork as a lever and your finger as a fulcrum .
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As nouns the difference between leaver and fulcrum
is that leaver is one who leaves while fulcrum is the support about which a lever pivots.As a proper noun Fulcrum is
nATO code name for the Soviet MiG-29 aircraft.leaver
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*fulcrum
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(wikipedia fulcrum)Noun
(en-noun)Bad Machinery
- MILDRED: Archimedes said give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I will move the world.
- CHARLOTTE: Yeah she said that twaddle eight or nine times.
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