Crossword-Solution: FULCRUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fulcrum | n. | A prop or support. |
| Fulcrum | n. | That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body. |
| Fulcrum | n. | An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like. |
| Fulcrum | n. | The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects. |
| Fulcrum | n. | One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes. |
| Fulcrum | n. | The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “FULCRUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lever support | 1 answer |
| the pivot about which a lever turns | 1 answer |
| pivot about which a lever turns | 1 answer |
| Thole, for one. | 1 answer |
| Support on which a lever rests. | 1 answer |
| Seesaw support | 1 answer |
| Seesaw pivot | 1 answer |
| Seesaw part | 1 answer |
| Point of leverage | 1 answer |
| Leverage point | 1 answer |
| LEVER, part of | 2 answers |
| PIVOTAL point | 6 answers |
| Leverage | 16 answers |
| Purchase | 16 answers |
| swivel | 18 answers |
| Bobbin | 18 answers |
| prop | 35 answers |
| Grip | 50 answers |
| Pivot | 56 answers |
| Turning Point | 58 answers |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with FULCRUM (5)
MENO II A CONTINUATION OF SOCRATES' DIALOGUE WITH MENO IN WHICH THE BOY PROVES ROOT 2 IS IRRATIONAL By Socrates A Millennium Fulcrum Edition [Copyright 1995] Socrates: Well, here we are at the appointed time, Meno.
This is the base and essence of our union; each had need of the other; each recognised, master and servant, lever and fulcrum, the complement of his endowment.
THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 I A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.
Her methods consisted in utilizing the principles of the lever and fulcrum in a manner so cleverly disguised that it appeared to the audience that some supernatural power must be at work.
Instead of fulfilling its normal function of preventing displacement, the coraco-acromial arch acted as a fulcrum.
Quotes with FULCRUM (3)
Outside, she thought that there ought to be a word for it: the air temperature that was perfectly neither hot nor cold. One degree lower, and she might have felt a faint misgiving about not having brought a jacket. One degree higher, and a skim of sweat might have glistened at her hairline. But at this precise degree, she required neither wrap nor breeze. Were there a word for such a temperature, there would have to be a corollary for the particular ecstasy of greeting it - t…
The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.
Long before being artists, we are artisans; and all fabrication, however rudimentary, lives on likeness and repetition, like the natural geometry which serves as its fulcrum. Fabrication works on models which it sets out to reproduce; and even when it invents, it proceeds, or imagines itself to proceed, by a new arrangement of elements already known. Its principle is that “we must have like to produce like.” In short, the strict application of the principle of finality, like …
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1952–2015).