to pedal
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6.0
- verb
- /ˈpɛdəl/
- Specialized
:
pisar el pedal
- Once on campus, the cyclists will pedal around Rim Drive and around Hillcrest Golf Club to Goeglein Gulch Road.
Examples
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You know, you don't pedal with your feet anymore, right?
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When Sam remonstrated with her, citing the marking and general performance practice, she smiled her little cat smile as though to say, "At last I've got him," then said sweetly, "But Tchaikovsky told Mr. Lhevinne to pedal there."
Academic text (1996) -
An easy way to find out is to turn the bike upside down and pedal it.
Blog text (3) -
On the way home, he made a game of seeing how slowly he could pedal and still keep his bike upright.
Fiction book (1997) -
I heard that it was possible to rent a bike there and pedal there, but after biking all over Siem Reap while viewing the Angkor Temples, I had had enough of sweating to the tourist sites of Cambodia.
Blog text (22) -
To create beautiful music, she learned how to pedal the organ skillfully.
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He carefully practiced the technique of pedaling the piano's foot pedals during his lessons.
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The musician demonstrated how to pedal effectively to sustain the chords during the performance.
Idioms
- Informal
7
6.3
To drive or work as fast as possible, often to finish something
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.9
A pedal in a car you press to disconnect the engine so you can change gears
- Specialized
An electronic device that makes one electric instrument sound like several by adding short echoes and small pitch changes
- Specialized
A curve formed by points where perpendiculars from a fixed point meet a curve's tangents
- Specialized
A piano pedal that lifts the pads on the strings so notes keep sounding after you release the keys
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pedal used for a piano or organ comes from ped- 'foot' because you operate those controls with your feet, so to pedal an instrument means to press its foot pedals to change or sustain the sound.