Crossword-Solution: DETENTS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DETENTS | anagram | STENTED |
We have 10 clues for the answer “DETENTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Catch mechanisms. | 1 answer |
| Catches, in machinery. | 1 answer |
| Clicks or pawls. | 1 answer |
| Movement-locking catches of clocks | 1 answer |
| Ratchet mechanisms | 1 answer |
| Ratchet-wheel pins. | 1 answer |
| Pawls. | 2 answers |
| Watchmaker's parts | 2 answers |
| Typewriter parts | 4 answers |
| Catches | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETENTS (1)
However delicately a machine may be constructed, with the most exquisitely contrived detents to release a weight or spring by the exertion of the smallest possible amount of force, _some_ external force will always, be required; so, in the animal machine, however minute may be the changes required in the cells or fibres of the brain, to set in motion the nerve currents which loosen or excite the pent up forces of certain muscles, _some force_ must be required to effect those changes.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1951–1998).