pulley : Idioms & Phrases

• a pulley with a broad face for transmitting power between revolving shafts by means of a belt, or for guiding a belt.

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• a pulley with depressions in the periphery of its wheel, or projections from it, made to fit the links of a chain.

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• . See in the Vocabulary.
• . See Cone pulley.

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• one of a pair of belt pulleys, each in the shape of a truncated cone, for varying velocities.

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• . (Mach.) (a) A portable hoisting apparatus, the same in principle as the differential windlass. (b) A hoisting pulley to which power is applied through a differential gearing.

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• an eccentric.

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• (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or diminished.

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• (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and reëngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa.

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• a pulley firmly attached upon a shaft.

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• (Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing the line of motion of belt; an idler. Knight.

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• noun a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it
  idle wheel; idle pulley.
  

WordNet

• (Mach.), a pulley that rests upon a belt to tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not used to transmit power.

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• noun a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it
  idle wheel; idle pulley.
  

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• . (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast.
• a pulley loose on a shaft, to interrupt the transmission of motion in machinery. See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast.

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• (Mach.), an idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel.

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• a belt pulley made in semicircular halves, which can be bolted together, to facilitate application to, or removal from, a shaft.

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• noun a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
  pulley; pulley block; block.
  

WordNet

• . Same as Block, n. 6.

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• (Arch.), the upright of the window frame into which a pulley is fixed and along which the sash slides.

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• noun a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
  pulley; pulley block; block.
  

WordNet

• . See Gin block, under Gin.

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• a cone pulley with steps.

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• a parting pulley.

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• (Mach.), a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.

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