se leverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈliː.və/, /ˈlɛ.və/, SAMPA: /li:"v@/, /lE"v@/

• (CA, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈli.vɚ/, /ˈlɛ.vɚ/, SAMPA: /li:"v@`/, /lE"v@`/

• 韻: -ɛvə(r), -iːvə(r)

語源 1

From Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French かつ French levier)”) < Latin levator (“a lifter”) < levare, past part. levatus (“to raise”); see levant. Compare alleviate, elevate, leaven.

名詞

lever (複数形 levers)

1. (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.
   1. 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.
2. A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button)
3. (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
4. (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.

動詞

to lever (三人称単数 現在形 levers, 現在分詞 levering, 過去形および過去分詞形 levered)

1. (transitive) To move with a lever.

   With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.

2. (figuratively) (transitive) To use, operate like a lever.
3. (主に英国用法, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
   • 1989 Jun 26, “Corporate America wants its privacy”, Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

     "The equity holders want you to 'lever up,' use as much debt as you can," said David Stanley, chairman of Kansas City-based Payless Cashways,

派生語

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• leverage
• compound lever
• lever escapement
• lever jack
• lever watch
• universal lever

語源 2

From Middle English comparative of leve (“dear”) of Germanic origin (compare German lieb) or lief.

副詞

lever (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Rather.
   • 1530, John Heywood, The Four PP

     for I had lever be without ye / Then have suche besines about ye

   • 1537, William Tyndale et al, "Jonah", in The Byble

     Now therefore take my life from me, for I had lever die then live.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene

     For lever had I die than see his deadly face.

外部リンク

• lever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• lever in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• elver
• revel

Latin

動詞

lēver

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lēvō.