Found 1 items, similar to loose pulley.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Loose pulley Loose \Loose\ (l[=oo]s), a. [Compar. Looser (l[=oo]s"[~e]r); superl. Loosest.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. le['a]s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. l["o]s, Goth. laus, and E. lose. [root]127. See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood.] 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. [1913 Webster] Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; -- with from or of. [1913 Webster] Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts ? --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment. [1913 Webster] 4. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture. [1913 Webster] With horse and chariots ranked in loose array. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning. [1913 Webster] The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation. --Whewel. [1913 Webster] 6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. [1913 Webster] The loose morality which he had learned. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 7. Unconnected; rambling. [1913 Webster] Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. [1913 Webster] Loose ladies in delight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. Fast and loose. See under Fast. To break loose. See under Break. Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty. [1913 Webster] Pulley \Pul"ley\, n.; pl. Pulleys. [F. poulie, perhaps of Teutonic origin (cf. Poll, v. t.); but cf. OE. poleine, polive, pulley, LL. polanus, and F. poulain, properly, a colt, fr. L. pullus young animal, foal (cf. Pullet, Foal). For the change of sense, cf. F. poutre beam, originally, a filly, and E. easel.] (Mach.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. [1913 Webster] Note: The pulley, as one of the mechanical powers, consists, in its simplest form, of a grooved wheel, called a sheave, turning within a movable frame or block, by means of a cord or rope attached at one end to a fixed point. The force, acting on the free end of the rope, is thus doubled, but can move the load through only half the space traversed by itself. The rope may also pass over a sheave in another block that is fixed. The end of the rope may be fastened to the movable block, instead of a fixed point, with an additional gain of power, and using either one or two sheaves in the fixed block. Other sheaves may be added, and the power multiplied accordingly. Such an apparatus is called by workmen a block and tackle, or a fall and tackle. See Block. A single fixed pulley gives no increase of power, but serves simply for changing the direction of motion. [1913 Webster] Band pulley, or Belt pulley, a pulley with a broad face for transmitting power between revolving shafts by means of a belt, or for guiding a belt. Cone pulley. See Cone pulley. Conical pulley, one of a pair of belt pulleys, each in the shape of a truncated cone, for varying velocities. Fast pulley, a pulley firmly attached upon a shaft. Loose pulley, a pulley loose on a shaft, to interrupt the transmission of motion in machinery. See Fast and loose pulleys , under Fast. Parting pulley, a belt pulley made in semicircular halves, which can be bolted together, to facilitate application to, or removal from, a shaft. Pulley block. Same as Block, n. 6. Pulley stile (Arch.), the upright of the window frame into which a pulley is fixed and along which the sash slides. Split pulley, a parting pulley. [1913 Webster]