English Dictionary

wrench

/ɹɛnt͡ʃ/

noun

A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug. / An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. / (obsolete) A trick or artifice. / (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.

He used a wrench to tighten the bolt.

意味（1）

A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.

With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us.

意味（2）

An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A trick or artifice.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.

意味（6）

(archaic) A winch or windlass.

意味（7）

(obsolete) A screw.

意味（8）

A distorting change from the original meaning.

意味（9）

(US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.

意味（10）

(UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.

意味（11）

A violent emotional change caused by separation.

意味（12）

(physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.

意味（13）

(obsolete) means; contrivance

But weighing one thing with another he gave Britain for lost; but resolved to make his profit of this business of Britain, as a quarrel for war; and that of Naples, as a wrench and mean for peace

意味（14）

In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.