pulleys
Meaning of pulleys
noun
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).
verb
To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
Information about pulleys
- The singular form of pulleys is: pulley.
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Hyphenation of pulleys
pul-leys
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- pulleys is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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