Pedal vs Penal - What's the difference?
pedal | penal |
A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano
(medicine) a foot or footlike part.
To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
To operate a bicycle.
Of or relating to punishment.
Subject to punishment; punishable.
Serving as a place of punishment.
As a noun pedal
is pedal.As an adjective penal is
penal, criminal.pedal
English
Noun
(en noun)- There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.
- A piano usually has two or three pedals .
- the pedal of a loom
Derived terms
* brake pedal * pedal pushers * soft pedal * sostenuto pedal * sustaining pedalVerb
- to pedal one's loom
- He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.
Coordinate terms
* , relating to the handAnagrams
* * * English heteronyms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Derived terms
* (l)References
* ----penal
English
Alternative forms
* * * (l) (obsolete) * (archaic) * (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- penal servitude
- a penal offence
- a penal colony
