pulley

English

A fixed pulley assembly

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊli

Etymology

From Middle English polley, pullie, from Old French poulie, polie (“a pulley”), (compare Medieval Latin polea, polegia, polegium; Middle Dutch puleye), of Germanic origin, from or related to Middle Low German pulen (“to pull”), Old English pullian (“to pull”) . More at pull.

Noun

pulley (plural pulleys)

1. One of the simple machines; a wheel with a grooved rim in which a pulled rope or chain will lift an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).

Translations

one of simple machines

• Armenian: ճախարակ (hy) (č̣axarak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑車 (cmn), 滑车 (cmn) (huáchē), 滑輪 (cmn), 滑轮 (cmn) (huálún)

• Czech: kladka (cs) f
• Dutch: katrol (nl)
• Finnish: väkipyörä
• French: poulie (fr) f
• Georgian: ჭოჭონაქი (ka) (čočonak'i)
• German: Rolle (de) f
• Greek: τροχαλία (el) (trochalía) f
• Hebrew: גלגלת (he) (galgelet)
• Icelandic: trissa (is) f

• Japanese: 滑車 (ja) (かっしゃ, kassha)
• Papiamentu: katròl
• Portuguese: roldana (pt) f
• Romanian: scripete (ro) m
• Russian: блок (ru) (blok) m, шкив (ru) (škiv) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чекрк (sh) m

  Roman: čekrk (sh) m

• Slovene: škripec (sl) m
• Spanish: polea (es) f, roldana (es) f
• Swahili: kopi (sw)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can

References

See also

• inclined plane
• lever
• polyspast
• block and tackle
• screw
• wedge
• wheel
• Wikipedia article on the simple machines

Verb

pulley (third-person singular simple present pulleys, present participle pulleying, simple past and past participle pulleyed)

1. (transitive) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

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