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gear /gēr/ noun- Equipment
- Accoutrements
- Tackle
- Clothes, esp (informal) young people's fashion clothes
- Personal belongings (informal)
- Illicit drugs (slang)
- Armour (obsolete)
- A harness
- An apparatus
- A set of tools or a mechanism for some particular purpose
- Household stuff
- Stuff, matter (archaic)
- An affair, business, doings (often contemptuous) (obsolete)
- Any moving part or system of parts for transmitting motion, eg levers, gearwheels
- Connection by means of such parts
- The actual gear ratio in use, or the gearwheels involved in transmitting that ratio, in an automobile gearbox, first gear being the lowest
- Landing gear
- Working connection
- Working order
- The diameter in inches of a wheel whose circumference equals the distance a bicycle would go for one turn of the pedals
transitive verb- To harness
- To put (eg machinery) in gear
- To connect in gear
- To adjust in accordance with the requirements of a particular plan, etc (with to)
intransitive verb- To be in gear
- To have a (high or low) gearing (economics)
adjective (old slang)Unusually good, or (later) very up to date ORIGIN: ME gere, prob ON gervi; cf OE gearwe, OHGer garawi; yare, gar2 geared adjective gearˈing noun - Harness
- Working implements
- Means of transmission of motion, esp a series of toothed wheels and pinions
- (in a company's capital) the proportion of debt finance to equity finance (economics)
gearˈless adjective gearˈbox noun - The box containing the apparatus for changing gear
- (in a motor vehicle) the apparatus itself
gearˈ-case noun A protective case for the gearing of a bicycle, etc gearˈ-change or gearˈchange noun - A change of gear
- The mechanism with which one changes gear
gear-lever, gearˈ-stick or (N American) gearˈshift noun A device for selecting or engaging and disengaging gears gear ratio noun The ratio of the driving to the driven members of a gear mechanism gear train noun Two or more gearwheels, transmitting motion from one shaft to another gearˈwheel noun A wheel with teeth or cogs which impart or transmit motion by acting on a similar wheel or a chain change gear To select a higher or lower gear gear down - To make the speed of the driven part lower than that of the driving part
- To prepare for decreased production, fewer demands, etc
gear up - To make the speed of the driven part higher than that of the driving part
- To prepare for increased production, new demands, etc
- To raise the gearing of (a company)
high gear - A gear ratio giving a high number of revolutions of the driven part relative to the driving part (highˈ-gear adjective)
- Maximum speed and efficiency, peak performance (figurative)
highly geared (of a company or its capital) having a high ratio of borrowing in relation to owners' capital, or of debt to equity low gear A gear ratio giving a low number of revolutions of the driven part relative to the driving part (lowˈ-gear adjective) multiplying gearing A combination of cogwheels for imparting motion from wheels of larger to wheels of smaller diameter, by which the rate of revolution is increased straight gear The name given to a set of geared wheels when the planes of motion are parallel (cf bevel gear under bevel) three-speed gear, two-speed gear and variable gear - A contrivance for changing gear at will
- See also synchromesh
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