Sentence examples for lifting a lever from inspiring English sources

The battery can usually be accessed from the underside of the laptop, and may have a lock you can turn with a coin, or release by lifting a lever.

We lift a lever here and feel 10 pounds of resistance — the weight of the crutches.

In a master clock system, electricity is used to give direct impulses to the pendulum, which in turn causes the clock's gear train to move, or to lift a lever after it has imparted an impulse to the pendulum.

Thorndike's experiments initially probed, e.g., how cats learned to lift a lever to escape the "puzzle boxes" (the forbearer to "Skinner boxes") that they were trapped in.

The cats' behaviors, such as attempting to lift a lever, were not themselves instinctual behaviors like the URs of Pavlov's experiments.

For example, to gain access to the rear buckets you have to first lift a lever that allows the front seat-backs to tilt forward, then push a button to electrically slide the seat bottoms forward.

The pivoted piece (which in a modern piano would be called a jack and should not be confused with the jack in a harpsichord) lifts an intermediate lever when the key is depressed.

Fundamentally, democracy is not a finely tuned mechanism that can be used to direct economic policy as a lever might lift a pulley.

For Thorndike it was because lifting the lever caused the door to open that the cats learned the connection between the lever and the door.

Attempting to lift the lever on an old pen with a hardened ink sac may break the lever or the barrel.

A downward force exerted on one end of the lever can be transferred and increased in an upward direction at the other end, allowing a small force to lift a heavy weight.