Ratchet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A mechanism consisting of a pawl that engages the sloping teeth of a wheel or bar, permitting motion in one direction only.
  • n. The pawl, wheel, or bar of this mechanism.
  • v. To cause to increase or decrease by increments: "Some companies . . . may make things worse if they seek to ratchet down their medical expenses by limiting benefits for psychological or psychiatric care” ( Newsweek).
  • verb-intransitive. To increase or decrease by increments.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
  • n. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
  • n. A ratchet wrench.
  • n. A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
  • v. To cause to become incremented or decremented.
  • v. To increment or decrement.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
  • n. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A detent or pivoted piece designed to fit into the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, permitting the wheel to rotate in one direction, but not in the other.
  • n. In printing, a notched straight blade of brass which rotates the pinions attached to the movable clamps of an electrotype plate mounted upon a block.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. move by degrees in one direction only
  • n. mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
    • Verb Form
    ratchets   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    progress    pass on    move on    march on    go on   
    Variant
    ratch   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    hatchet   
     
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