Synonyms of the word

treadle

• n. A foot-operated pedal or lever that generates circular motion.
• n. (biology) Chalaza.
• v. (intransitive) To use a treadle.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

lever

• n. (obsolete, except in generalized senses below) A crowbar.
• n. (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which…
• n. A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
• n. (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
• n. (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
• v. (transitive) To move with a lever.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
• v. (chiefly Britain, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
• adv. (obsolete) Rather.
• n. (rare) A levee.

operate

• v. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical;…
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed…
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
• v. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner,…
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

pedal

• n. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
• n. (medicine) a foot or footlike part.
• n. (music) An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
• n. (equestrian, humorous) A stirrup.
• n. (music) The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.
• v. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
• v. To operate a bicycle.
• adj. Of or relating to the foot.

trample

• v. (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
• v. (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
• v. (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
• v. (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
• n. the sound of heavy footsteps.

tread

• v. (intransitive) To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
• v. (transitive) To step or walk upon.
• v. To beat or press with the feet.
• v. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
• v. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
• v. (transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with.
• n. A step.
• n. A manner of stepping.
• n. (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
• n. The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
• n. The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
• n. The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
• n. The sound made when someone or something is walking.
• n. (biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
• n. The act of copulation in birds.
• n. (fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
• n. A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.