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Qué (quién) es RATCHET - definición
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Ratchet (disambiguation)
ratchet
n.
Click, catch, detent, pawl, ratch.
ratchet
(ratchets, ratcheting, ratcheted)
1.
In a tool or machine, a ratchet is a wheel or bar with sloping teeth, which can move only in one direction, because a piece of metal stops the teeth from moving backwards.
The chair has a ratchet below it to adjust the height...
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2.
If a tool or machine ratchets or if you ratchet it, it makes a clicking noise as it operates, because it has a ratchet in it.
The rod bent double, the reel shrieked and ratcheted...
She took up a sheet and ratcheted it into the typewriter.
VERB: V, V n
3.
If you describe a situation as a ratchet, you mean that it is bad and can only become worse. (mainly BRIT)
...another raising of the ratchet of violence in the conflict.
N-SING: with supp
Ratchet
·noun A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, ·etc.
II. Ratchet ·noun A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. ·see Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
Ejemplos de uso de RATCHET
1. It‘s to ratchet up the international pressure on Iran.
2. That probe could do much to ratchet down tensions.
3. The governor‘s proposal hinted that Schwarzenegger may try to ratchet down state employee pay.
4. Bush has said he has no intention of invading Iran, despite pledging to ratchet up pressure.
5. The ratchet will move further in the direction of control at the expense of liberty.