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BELL CRANK

Definition: BELL CRANK

BELL CRANK

1. A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Specialty Definitions: BELL CRANK

DomainDefinitions

Mechanical Engineering

Base plate for motors which has been arranged to pivot freely at one end so as to tension the driving belt. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BELL CRANK

Specialty definitions using "BELL CRANK": beet flumerFLUMER IV-bob. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BELL CRANK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bell crank

8

bell crank steer super

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BELL CRANK

Language Translations for "BELL CRANK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vinkelarm, mellemarm. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tuimelaar (catch, counter gear, counter gearing, counter notion, pendular lever, pendulum, rocker, rocker arm, tripper device, valve rocker, weighing machine), haakse hefboom. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

polvivipu, kulmavipu. (various references)

   

French

  

basculeur, renvoi de sonnette, levier coudé, guignol de renvoi, guignol de commande, guignol d'angle. (various references)

   

German

  

Winkelhebel, Umlenkhebel (catch, tripper device), Steuerhebel (distributing lever, handlebar, joystick, stilt), Schwinge (grass rod, grass stick, pinion, rocker, shifting arm, swathing rod, tumbler gear frame, wave, wing), Kipphebel (catch, rocker, rocker arm, rocker lever, rocking, rocking level, tripper device, valve rocker), Glockenarm. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γωνιώδης μοχλός, γωνιωτός μοχλός ελέγχου, γωνιωτός μοχλός ανατροφοδότησης, γωνιωτός μοχλός, γωνιομοχλός ελέγχου, γωνιομοχλός ανατροφοδότησης, γωνιομοχλός, μοχλοβραχίονας, διάταξη εντατήρα. (various references)

   

Italian

  

squadretta di comando, rinvio a squadra, leva a squadra. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellbay ankcray

   

Portuguese

  

cotovelo (ancon, elbow, elbow pipe, ell, knee, node, sharp bend). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

balancín (balance pole, balancer, dandy, equalizer, equalizing bar, horn, lifting beam, lifting eyes of the heavier moulding boxes, outrigger, paternoster, rocker, rocker arm, seesaw, singletree, sling beam, sway-beam, valve rocker, yoke), transmisión (broadcast, broadcasting, conveyance, drive, drive line, emission, transmission, transmit), palanca acodada. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vinkelhävarm. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BELL CRANK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-k-l-l-n-r"

-2 letters: blacken, blacker, blanker, bracken, crankle.

-3 letters: backer, balker, baller, banker, calker, caller, canker, cellar, lacker, lancer, lanker, rackle, rankle, recall.

-4 letters: abler, acerb, ankle, baker, baler, black, blank, blare, bleak, blear, brace, brake, brank, break, caber, cable, caner, carle, cella, clank, clean, clear, clerk, crake, crane, crank, creak, kebar, knell, label, lacer, laker.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-k-l-l-n-r"
 

+4 letters: knuckleballer.

 

+5 letters: knuckleballers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BELL CRANK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 45 4C 4C      43 52 41 4E 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000101 01001100 01001100 00100000 01000011 01010010 01000001 01001110 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#32 &#67 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 004C 004C      0043 0052 0041 004E 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3639464623752354845

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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