pulley en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈpʊli/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpʉle/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
- /-li/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
- (US) audio
- /ˈpɵlɪj/ (British, Southern, Standard)
- /-lɪ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
Etymology
From Middle English puly, poley, from Old French poulie, polie (“a pulley, windlass”), from Medieval Latin polidia, plural mistaken for the feminine of neuter polidium, from Ancient Greek πολίδιον (polídion, “little pivot”), diminutive of πόλος (pólos, “pivot, hinge, axis”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”). Associated with pull (verb) by folk etymology.
Meanings
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(countable) One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).
Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 20:The steel haulage ropes have a breaking strain of 50 tons, and another pair passing around a pulley at the bottom connect the lower ends of the cars and act as tail or balance ropes.
1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 515:These pulleys […] placed collaterally.
1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
- Annular ligament of the finger.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pulleys | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| pullies | Number=Plur | obsolete | lexicographic |
Coordinates
screw · lever · inclined plane · crane · wedge
Deriveds
micropulley · pulleylike · rubbish pulley · motor pulley · pulley-plough · pulley bone · speed pulley · pulleyless · pulley shell · pulley block · mule pulley
Descendants
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
winch · block and tackle · polyspast
Meronyms
bearing · rigging · wheel · chain · rope
Translations (84)
tl tangkalag (one of simple machines) · mk скри́пец (one of simple machines) · nb trisse (one of simple machines) · es garrucha (one of simple machines) · cmn 滑車 /滑车 (one of simple machines) · gl trócola (one of simple machines) · is talía (one of simple machines) · ro scripete (one of simple machines) · it carrucola (one of simple machines) · sh чекрк (one of simple machines) · th รอก (one of simple machines) · sl škripec (one of simple machines) · it puleggia (one of simple machines) · ca corriola (one of simple machines) · de Rolle (one of simple machines) · is trissa (one of simple machines) · te గిలక (one of simple machines) · de Seilscheibe (one of simple machines) · gl roudana (one of simple machines) · grc τροχιλεῖον (one of simple machines) · vi ròng rọc (one of simple machines) · eu polea (one of simple machines) · fi väkipyörä (one of simple machines) · km រ៉ក (one of simple machines) · gl carradeixo (one of simple machines) · de Riemenscheibe (one of simple machines) · ka ჭოჭონაქი (one of simple machines) · da trisse (one of simple machines) · es carrucha (one of simple machines) · tr kasnak (one of simple machines) · af katrol (one of simple machines) · mk ма́кара (one of simple machines) · tl kalo (one of simple machines) · cs kladka (one of simple machines) · ar مَنْجُور (one of simple machines) · mnw ရံက် (one of simple machines) · ja 滑車 (one of simple machines) · ko 도르래 (one of simple machines) · es roldana (one of simple machines) · ru блок (one of simple machines) · ca politja (one of simple machines) · de Seilrolle (one of simple machines) · nb trinse (one of simple machines) · ga ulóg (one of simple machines) · de Laufrolle (one of simple machines) · fi pylpyrä (one of simple machines) · eo pulio (one of simple machines) · ota مقره (one of simple machines) · te కప్పీ (one of simple machines) · sk kladka (one of simple machines) · sv trissa (one of simple machines) · sh čekrk (one of simple machines) · pl blok (one of simple machines) · es trocla (one of simple machines) · ru шкив (one of simple machines) · fr poulie (one of simple machines) · gl rinchadeira (one of simple machines) · gl cadeixo (one of simple machines) · es carrillo (one of simple machines) · bg макара́ (one of simple machines) · de Riemenrad (one of simple machines) · bg скрипе́ц (one of simple machines) · id katrol (one of simple machines) · hy ճախարակ (one of simple machines) · de Talje (one of simple machines) · la trochlea (one of simple machines) · he גלגלת (one of simple machines) · cmn 滑輪 /滑轮 (one of simple machines) · es motón (one of simple machines) · ga puilín (one of simple machines) · pap katròl (one of simple machines) · el τροχαλία (one of simple machines) · pt roldana (one of simple machines) · hu csiga (one of simple machines) · eu txirrika (one of simple machines) · pt polia (one of simple machines) · mi tauru (one of simple machines) · tr makara (one of simple machines) · es monospastos (one of simple machines) · nl katrol (one of simple machines) · de Flaschenzug (one of simple machines) · uk блок (one of simple machines) · hi घिरनी (one of simple machines) · es polea (one of simple machines)