Definition for Ratchet:

• A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.

Synonyms for Ratchet:

• n.

  •Rachet Up (noun)
  • Rachet Up.
  •
  • carriage,
  • button,
  • belt,
  • ancillary,
  • ball bearing,
  • bearing,
  • chamber,
  • camshaft,
  • cam,
  • bucket.
  •bobbin (noun)
  • reel,
  • coil,
  • cylinder,
  • spindle,
  • quill,
  • braid,
  • cord,
  • pin.
  •catch (noun)
  • sprocket wheel,
  • sprocket,
  • cogwheel.
  •cog (noun)
  • fangs,
  • rack,
  • tooth,
  • tine,
  • cogwheels,
  • gear,
  • ratchets,
  • differentials,
  • fang,
  • tusk,
  • pinions,
  • prong,
  • transmission,
  • pinion,
  • differential.
  •rachet (noun)
  • rachet.
  •ratch (noun)
  • ratch.
  •ratchet (noun)
  • ratchet down.
  •spool (noun)
  • bobbin.
  •wheel (noun)
  • turn,
  • circulation,
  • twirl,
  • round,
  • pulley,
  • rotation,
  • circuit,
  • cycle,
  • pivot,
  • gyre,
  • ring,
  • disk,
  • hoop,
  • drum,
  • gyration,
  • whirl,
  • roll,
  • spin,
  • circumvolution.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • jack.
  •check
  • brake.

Paraphrases for Ratchet:

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    pawl.
  • Proper noun, singular
    pawl.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    pawl.

Antonyms for Ratchet:

• v.

  • Other antonyms:
    snowball, intensify, rise, balloon, soar, enlarge, show up, increase, mount, swell, blow up, escalate, lengthen, expand, build, distend, grow, emerge, accumulate, appear, elongate, wax, mushroom, burgeon.

Ratchet Sentence Examples:

• A pawl is a sort of catch that fits into a ratchet wheel and pushes it around, or it may be used as a catch to prevent the backward motion of a windlass or the wheel on a derrick.

• Another remarkable feature in these early gears is the use of ratchet - shaped teeth, sometimes even twisted helically so that the gears resemble worms intermeshing on parallel axles.

Homophones for Ratchet:

• roadstead, redcoat, redact, red dogwood, reduced, red-coated, rededicate, ridged, riot act, roadside, radio set, rotgut, reductio, readjust, ready-cooked, road test.

Hyponym for Ratchet:

• v.

  • motion
    march on, go on, advance, pass on, move on, progress.