(n.) A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.
Example Sentences:
(1) Insert cliched Stairway to Heaven-crowbarring-in headline here.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: GUARDIAN Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk Ukip could easily crowbar this into its campaign, albeit with the line “Julio – get the stretch!” altered to include a name more in keeping with the party’s ideologies.
(3) The Newcastle boss has previously crowbarred his way into talks at outdoorwear retailer Blacks Leisure, and now defunct rival sports chain JJB Sports, by snapping up chunks of shares in the businesses which were both formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.
(4) Stinchcombe took the decision to remove the piece, using a crowbar, on Tuesday afternoon, when he heard its authenticity had been confirmed.
(5) Ben-David asked where the crowbar was, and said that they (the Arabs) have seven souls, then he gave him two blows to the head with the crowbar.
(6) A penetrating injury to the left hemisphere of the brain with a crowbar is presented.
(7) In Bristol in April a new Banksy – Mobile Lovers, painted on a wooden panel in a doorway, showing a couple embracing while surreptitiously checking their smartphones – was crowbarred off the Broad Plain boys' club almost as soon as it appeared.
(8) Tjanpi helps them make their money go further by providing bush gear such as crowbars and blankets at cost price.
(9) Seeing what was going on, Mr Jamrach (or so he later claimed) rushed out of his shop and saved the boy with the aid of a colleague with a crowbar.
(10) These two had in their grasp for a golden moment the potential to crowbar open South Africa’s race-dominated political logjam.
(11) A couple of youths in masks smashed in the windows with crowbars; then the masses poured in.
(12) The officer leading the investigation, DCI Paul Johnson, told reporters: “The vault is covered in dust and debris and the floor is strewn with discarded safety deposit boxes and numerous power tools, including an angle grinder, concrete drills and crowbars.” Detectives are tracing where the power tools were bought or hired from, though some of the serial numbers have been scratched off.
(13) He had pried open the front door with a crowbar, and was confronted by police on the sidewalk when he came out.
(14) Rescue efforts have relied heavily on volunteers using crowbars, picks and bare hands to clear debris and reach survivors.
(15) They used angle grinders and crowbars to open 70 boxes.
(16) A youth club in Bristol hopes to raise £100,000 by selling a Banksy artwork it removed from a wall with a crowbar.
(17) Power tools, including an angle grinder, the Hilti drill and crowbars, were abandoned on the floor, having been wiped clean of any incriminating evidence.
(18) When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they’re not protesting,” Obama said.
(19) A 39-year-old man was impaled by a crowbar which penetrated the brain.
(20) To her detractors – of which there seem to be a growing number – she's the perfect example of the dichotomy of the globe-straddling megastar spouting empty signifiers with the meaning crowbarred in afterwards.
Lever
Definition:
(a.) More agreeable; more pleasing.
(adv.) Rather.
(n.) 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. Specif., 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.
(n.) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
(n.) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this experiment animals were trained to lever press in two distinctive contexts.
(2) Orientation and lever responding were not functionally related.
(3) In older stages, the cervical joints rotate according to geometric and lever arm principles.
(4) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(5) Cats were trained to press a lever for 0.5--1.0 ml of milk reward both in the presence and absence of ambient light.
(6) Setting out how Britain would have a lever over the rest of the EU to demand repatriation of UK competences, Cameron said: "What's happening in Europe right now is massive change being driven by the existence of the euro.
(7) When lever pressing was established, the 2-kHz signal was presented through a speaker adjacent to the response lever according to a different set of variable intertrial intervals.
(8) Officials said the changes to the planning rules will mean it is possible to lever in billions of private sector development in low-cost housing.
(9) Rats were allowed to bar press on either of two levers (left and right).
(10) Knee flexion is synchronized with ankle dorsiflexion by a synchronizer rod and lever.
(11) In order to study the interactions between serotonergic mechanism and electrical stimulation of the mesencephalic central gray substance, rats were trained to lever-press for terminating aversive electric stimuli applied at the Periaqueductal gray and adjoining tectum of the mesencephalon.
(12) Rats were trained to press a lever to obtain a brief burst of pulses to the lateral hypothalamus.
(13) But its original meaning is the practice of using the levers of the state and of government to get difficult things done that otherwise wouldn't happen.
(14) Intact rats and rats bearing lesions of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCNX rats) were trained to obtain food by pressing either of two levers located on opposite sides of a cylindrical cage.
(15) We found that attenuation of lever-pressing and water intake by raclopride were not more separated in dose than after, for example, haloperidol.
(16) Young rats weaned at 16 days were taught to press a lever by shaping at 18 days and trained for 11 days (from 20 to 30 days of age) on a fixed-interval 60-sec schedule, at a rate of 5 half-hour sessions per day.
(17) In contrast, the selective norepinephrine uptake inhibitors, desipramine and talsupram, and the selective serotonin uptake inhibitor, citalopram, occasioned averages of only 13 to 19% drug-lever responding.
(18) When reinforcement was not available, each lever response produced a 0.5-sec green light on the key.
(19) Rats implanted with placebo pellets and given access to morphine reestablished lever pressing, while those given access to isotonic saline extinguished their lever pressing.
(20) Levels of acetylcholine were significantly elevated in the telencephalon and diencephalon + mesencephalon of rats killed by near-freezing during conditioned suppression of food-reinforced lever pressing, whereas levels of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine were not altered.