WRENCH
Wrench
A wrench is a tool used to provide grip and mechanical advantage in applying torque to turn objects—usually rotary fasteners, such as nuts and bolts—or keep them from turning.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Wrench
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wrench
Noun
- A trick or artifice.
- Deceit; guile; treachery.
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A turn at an acute angle.
- A winch or windlass.
- A screw.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
- In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- means; contrivance
Verb
- To violently move in a turn or writhe.
- To pull or twist violently.
- With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.
- To turn aside or deflect.
- To slander.
- To tighten with or as if with a winch.
- To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
- Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones!
- To distort from the original meaning.
- To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
- To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
- To rack with pain.
- To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
- To use the tool known as a wrench.
- The plumber wrenched the pipes until they came loose.
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