Plier vs. Wrench

Pliernoun

One who plies.

Pliernoun

someone who plies a trade

Wrenchnoun

A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.

Wrenchnoun

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

Wrenchnoun

(obsolete) A trick or artifice.

Wrenchnoun

(obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.

Wrenchnoun

(obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.

Wrenchnoun

(archaic) A winch or windlass.

Wrenchnoun

(obsolete) A screw.

Wrenchnoun

A distorting change from the original meaning.

Wrenchnoun

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

Wrenchnoun

(UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.

Wrenchnoun

A violent emotional change caused by separation.

Wrenchnoun

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

Wrenchnoun

(obsolete) means; contrivance

Wrenchnoun

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.

Wrenchverb

To violently move in a turn or writhe.

Wrenchverb

(transitive) To pull or twist violently.

Wrenchverb

To turn aside or deflect.

Wrenchverb

To slander.

Wrenchverb

To tighten with or as if with a winch.

Wrenchverb

(transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.

Wrenchverb

(transitive) To distort from the original meaning.

Wrenchverb

To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.

Wrenchverb

To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.

Wrenchverb

(transitive) To rack with pain.

Wrenchverb

(transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.

Wrenchverb

(transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench.

Wrenchnoun

Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

Wrenchnoun

A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.

Wrenchnoun

A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.

Wrenchnoun

Means; contrivance.

Wrenchnoun

An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.

Wrenchnoun

The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.

Wrenchverb

To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.

Wrenchverb

To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.

Wrenchnoun

a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments;

Wrenchnoun

a jerky pulling movement

Wrenchnoun

a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt

Wrenchverb

twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates;

Wrenchverb

make a sudden twisting motion

Wrenchverb

twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish;

Wrenchverb

twist suddenly so as to sprain;

Wrench

A wrench or spanner is a tool used to provide grip and mechanical advantage in applying torque to turn objects—usually rotary fasteners, such as nuts and bolts—or keep them from turning. In the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand spanner is the standard term.