ratchet

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
2. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
3. A ratchet wrench.
4. (broadly) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
5. A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of full ratchet.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To increment or decrement; especially, to offer controlled motion that can increment while resisting decrement, or vice versa.
2. (transitive) To cause (something) to become incremented or decremented.

Adj

Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.

Sinonieme

rachet

pawl

ratch

toothed wheel

ratchet down

rachet up

click

get around

hoop

mill

noisemaker

ratchet wheel

ratchet wrench

revolve

ring

💍

roller

rotate

run

safety catch

spin

sprocket

swirl

trigger

troll

🧌

tumble

turn

twiddle

twirl

wheel

🛞

whirl

whirlpool

mill about

whirl around

notch wheel

ratchet effect

locking device

paw wheel

click pulley

catch

buss toy

clew

clue

cog

cogwheel

detent

gear

⚙️

Vertalings

Ratsche

matraca

matraca

trinquete

Knarre

chiave a cricchetto

trinquet

Schaltrad

rochet

cliquet

ruota a cricchetto

carrau

pal

nottolino

cricchetto

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɹæt͡ʃɪt/

Etimologie (Engels)

From French rochet (“bobbin, spindle, ratchet”), from Italian rocchetto (“spool, ratchet”).