'Gear' definitions:

Definition of 'gear'

From: WordNet
noun
A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion [syn: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel]
noun
Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: gearing, gear, geartrain, power train, train]
noun
A mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) [syn: gear, gear mechanism]
noun
Equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. [syn: gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance]
verb
Set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" [syn: gear, pitch]

Definition of 'Gear'

From: GCIDE
  • Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[imac], garw[imac] ornament, dress. See Yare, and cf. Garb dress.]
  • 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. [1913 Webster]
  • Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Homely gear and common ware. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. [1913 Webster]
  • Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mech.) (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b) . [1913 Webster]
  • 10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Wright. [1913 Webster]
  • That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
  • Bever gear. See Bevel gear.
  • Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See {Mortise wheel}, under Mortise.
  • Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion.
  • Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n.
  • Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting.
  • Gear wheel, any cogwheel.
  • Running gear. See under Running.
  • To throw in gear or To throw out of gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gear'

From: GCIDE
  • Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Geared (g[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gearing.]
  • 1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mach.) To provide with gearing. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers. [PJC]
  • Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gear'

From: GCIDE
  • Gear \Gear\, v. i. (Mach.) To be in, or come into, gear. [1913 Webster]

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