different between pulley vs funic

English

Etymology

From Middle English polley, pullie, from Old French poulie, polie (“a pulley, windlass”), (compare Medieval Latin polea, polegia, polegium, Middle Dutch puleye, modern Dutch poelie), of obscure origin. Perhaps connected to Middle Low German pulen (“to pull”), Old English pullian (“to pull”) . More at pull.

Alternatively, perhaps connected to Ancient Greek ????? (pólos, “pivot, hinge, axis”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?el- (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Noun

pulley (plural pulleys)

1. (engineering, countable) One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).

Derived terms

• pulley block

Translations

References

Verb

pulley (third-person singular simple present pulleys, present participle pulleying, simple past and past participle pulleyed)

1. (transitive) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
   • March 30 1620, James Howell, "To Capt. Francis Bacon" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     [a mine]is digg'd out with ease, being soft, and is between a white Clay and Chalk at first; but being pulley'd up with the open Air, it receives a crusty kind of hardness

Hypernyms

• hoist
• simple machine, Simple machine

Hyponyms

• polyspast
• block and tackle
• winch

Meronyms

• bearing
• chain
• rigging
• rope
• wheel

Coordinate terms

• crane
• inclined plane
• lever
• screw
• wedge

English

Adjective

funic (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) funicular