Pry
Part of speech: verb
Definition: Looking where one is not welcome; being nosey. To look closely and curiously at, peep To use leverage to open or widen. (See also prise and prize.)
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of prying An excessively inquisitive person A lever. Leverage.
Example sentence: When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
Lever
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: Rather.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.# Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button)A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To move with a lever.To use, operate like a lever.To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
Example sentence: In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more thinking and understanding, and it brings us together.