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lever | fever |

As nouns the difference between lever and fever

is that lever is (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 or lever can be (rare) a levee while fever is fever.

As a verb lever

is to move with a.

As an adverb lever

is (obsolete) rather.

lever

English

(wikipedia lever)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) leveor, ; see levant. Compare alleviate, elevate, leaven.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}
  • (mechanics)   An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
  • Verb

  • To move with a .
  • ''With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
  • (figuratively) To use, operate like a .
  • To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
  • *
  • Derived terms

    * leverage * compound lever * lever escapement * lever jack * lever watch * universal lever

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) comparative of of Germanic origin (compare German lieb) or lief.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Rather.
  • * 1530 , , The Four PP
  • for I had lever be without ye / Then have suche besines about ye
  • * 1537 ,
  • Now therefore take my life from me, for I had lever die then live.
  • * 1590 ,
  • For lever had I die than see his deadly face.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lever.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A levee.
  • * 1742 , Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters , II.191:
  • We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér .
  • * 2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep 2011:
  • Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    fever

    English

    (wikipedia fever)

    Alternative forms

    * fevre (qualifier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
  • "I have a fever . I think I've caught a cold."
  • (usually, in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
  • scarlet fever
  • A state of excitement (of a person or people).
  • * Shakespeare
  • an envious fever
  • A group of stingrays.
  • Synonyms

    * (higher than normal body temperature): high temperature, pyrexia (medical term ), temperature * (state of excitement): excitation, excitement, passion

    Derived terms

    * abortus fever * absorption fever * acclimating fever * Aden fever * adynamic fever * aestivoautumnal fever, estivoautumnal fever * African Coast fever * African haemorrhagic fever, African hemorrhagic fever * algid pernicious fever * aphthous fever * ardent fever * arthropod-borne fever * artificial fever * aseptic fever * Assam fever * ataxic fever * autumn fever * barrel fever * Bay fever * beaver fever * benign tertian fever * biduoterian fever * biliary fever * bilious fever * bilious remittent fever * black fever * black fly fever * blackwater fever * blue fever * bouquet fever * boutonneuse fever * bovine ephemeral fever * bovine epizootic fever * bovine infectious petechial fever * bovine malignant catarrhal fever * bovine petechial fever * brain fever, brain-fever * brass founder's fever, brassfounder's fever * Brazilian purpuric fever * breakbone fever * buck fever, buck-fever * Bullis fever * bullous fever * Bunyamwera fever * Burdwan fever * Bwamba fever * cabin fever * cachectic fever, cachexial fever * California valley fever * camp fever, camp-fever * cane-cutter fever * cane-field fever, canefield fever * canicola fever * Cape Horn fever * * Carter's fever * cat-bite fever * catarrhal fever * cat fever * catheter fever * cat scratch fever, cat-scratch fever * central fever * cerebro-spinal fever, cerebrospinal fever * Chagres fever * channel fever * Charcot intermittent fever, Charcot's intermittent fever * Charcot's fever * chikungunya fever * childbed fever * childbirth fever * Choix fever * congestive fever * Congolian red fever * Congo red fever * continued fever, continuous fever * cotton fever * cotton-mill fever * country fever * Crimean fever * Cyprus fever * dance fever * dandy fever, dandy-fever * date fever * day-fever * deer fly fever, deer-fly fever * dehydration fever * dengue fever * desert fever * diary fever * digestive fever * diphasic milk fever * disfever * dock fever * double quotidian fever * drug fever * duck fever * dumdum fever * Dutch type periodic fever * East Coast fever * Ebola fever * Ebola virus fever * elephantoid fever * Elokomin fluke fever * enfever * enteric fever * entericoid fever * entrance fever * ephemeral fever * epimastical fever * eruptive fever * essential fever * exanthematous fever * exsiccation fever * falciparum fever * familial Hibernian fever * familial periodic fever * famine fever * farrowing fever * fatigue fever * * feverable * fever ague * fever and ague * fever-bark * fever blister, fever-blister * fever bush, feverbush * fever-chart * fever-cooling * fevered * feveress * feveret * fever-fly * fever grass * fever-heat * fever-hectic * feverish * feverite * fever lent * feverless * fever-lurdan, fever-lurgan * fever-lurden * fever-lurk * feverly * fever-nut * fever of unknown origin * feverous * fever pitch * fever powder, fever-powder * fever ring * * fever root, fever-root * fever-sick * fever sore, fever-sore * fever therapy * fever thermometer * fever-trap * fever treatment * fever tree, fever-tree * fever twig, fever-twig * fever-weakened * fever-weed * fever-wood * fever-wort, feverwort * fevery * field fever * five-day fever * flood fever * fog fever * Fort Bragg fever * food fever * Fort Bragg fever * Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever, Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome * foundryman's fever * Gambian fever * gaol fever, gaol-fever * gastric fever * gastric remittent fever * Gibraltar fever * glandular fever * gold fever, gold-fever * grain fever * green fever * haematuric bilious fever, hematuric bilious fever * haemoglobinuric fever, hemoglobinuric fever * haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever * Hankow fever * harvest fever * Hasami fever * Haverhill fever * hay fever, hay-fever * hectic fever * hempen fever * hepatic intermittent fever * herpetic fever * horse sickness fever * hospital fever * humidifier fever * icterohaemorrhagic fever, icterohemorrhagic fever * Ilheus fever * inanition fever * induced fever * inflammatory fever * intermittent fever * inundation fever * island fever * Jaccoud's dissociated fever * jail-fever, jail fever * Japanese flood fever * Japanese river fever * jungle fever, jungle-fever * jungle yellow fever * Junin fever * Katayama fever * Kedani fever * Kenya fever * Kew Gardens fever * Kinkiang fever * Korin fever * * land fever * Lassa fever * Lassa haemorrhagic fever, Lassa hemorrhagic fever * laurel fever * Lazaret fever * lechuguilla fever * Lombard fever * Lone Star fever * lung fever * malarial fever * malignant catarrhal fever * malignant tertian fever * Malta fever * Manchurian fever * Marseilles fever * marsh fever, marsh-fever * Mediterranean coast fever * Mediterranean erythematous fever * Mediterranean exanthematous fever * Mediterranean fever * meningotyphoid fever * metal fume fever * Meuse fever * Mexican fever * Mianeh fever * miliary fever * milk fever, milk-fever * mill fever * Monday fever * monoleptic fever * Mossman fever * mountain fever * mud fever * mumu fever * Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever * Murchison-Sanderson fever * nanukayami fever * Neapolitan fever * nervous fever * nine mile fever * nodal fever * Ohio River Valley fever * o'nyong-nyong fever * Oropouche fever * Oroya fever * Pahvant Valley fever * paludal fever * papataci fever, papatasi fever, pappataci fever * papular fever * paratyphoid fever * parenteric fever * parrot fever * parturient fever * Pel-Ebstein fever * periodic fever * petechial fever * Pfeiffer's glandular fever * pharyngoconjunctival fever * phlebotomus fever * pink-fever * pinta fever * pituitous fever * polka fever * polyleptic fever * polymer fume fever * Pomona fever * Pontiac fever * Potomac fever * Potomac horse fever * pretibial fever * prison fever, prison-fever * prison fever typhus * protein fever * puerperal fever * puking fever * purple fever * putrid fever * Pym fever, Pym's fever * pyogenic fever * Q fever * query fever * rabbit fever * rat-bite fever, ratbite fever * recrudescent typhus fever * recurrent fever * recurring fever * red fever * redwater fever * relapsing fever * remittent fever * rheumatic fever * Rhodesian fever, Rhodesian redwater fever * rice-field fever * Rift Valley fever * Rock fever, rock fever * Rocky Mountain fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever * Roman fever * rose fever, rose-fever * Ross River fever * rotanny fever * run a fever * sakushu fever * Salinem fever * salt fever * sand-fly fever, sandfly fever * San Joaquin fever, San Joaquin Valley fever * Santa Marta fever * Sao Paulo fever, * scarlet fever * Schamberg fever * * secondary fever * Sennetsu fever * septic fever * Shar Pei fever * shin bone fever * ship fever, ship-fever * shipping fever * shoddy fever * Sindbis fever * slime fever * slow fever * smelter's fever * snail fever * solar fever * Songo fever * South African tick-bite fever, South African tickbite fever * spelter's fever * spirillary fever * spirillum fever * splenic fever * spotted fever * spottled fever * spring fever * sthenic fever * stockyards fever * steroid fever * stranger's fever * streptobacillary fever * summer fever * sun fever * suppurative fever * surgical fever * swamp fever * swine fever * symptomatic fever * syphilitic fever * Texas cattle fever, Texas fever * therapeutic fever * thermic fever * thirst fever * threshing fever * tick-bite fever * tick-borne fever * tick fever * Tobia fever * traumatic fever * trench fever * trypanosome fever * tsutsugamushi fever * typhoid fever * typhus fever * undifferentiated type fever * undulant fever * undulating fever * upgrade fever * urethral fever * urinary fever * urticarial fever * uveoparotid fever * valley fever * verruga fever * vivax fever * war fever * Wesselsbron fever * West African fever * West Nile fever * Whitmore's fever * winter fever * Wolhynia fever * womb fever * worm fever * wound fever * Yangtze Valley fever * yellow fever * Zika fever * zinc fume fever

    See also

    * hyperthermia

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
  • a fevered lip
    The white hand of a lady fever thee. — Shakespeare.