Gear

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     2. (Mach.) To provide with gearing.


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     3. To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared
        their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.
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     {Double geared}, driven through twofold compound gearing, to
        increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser.
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     2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer.
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              Homely gear and common ware.          --Robynson
                                                    (More's
                                                    Utopia).
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     3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff
        or material.
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              Clad in a vesture of unknown gear.    --Spenser.
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     4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
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     5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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     6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.]
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              Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser.
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     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.
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     9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st {Jeer}
        (b) .
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     10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or
         Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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               That servant of his that confessed and uttered this
               gear was an honest man.              --Latimer.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gear \Gear\, v. i. (Mach.)
     To be in, or come into, gear.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gear
       n 1: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in
            order to change the speed or direction of transmitted
            motion [syn: {gear wheel}, {cogwheel}]
       2: a mechanism for transmitting motion by gears for some
          specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) [syn:
           {gear mechanism}]
       3: equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a
          particular operation or sport etc. [syn: {paraphernalia},
          {appurtenances}]
       v : set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to
           the teenagers in the audience" [syn: {pitch}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  166 Moby Thesaurus words for "gear":
     Hydromatic, accessories, accommodate, accouter, accouterments,
     action, adapt, adjust, apparatus, apparel, appendages, appliances,
     appoint, appointments, appurtenances, arm, armament, array, attire,
     automatic transmission, bag and baggage, baggage, bedizenment,
     belongings, chattels, clobber, clockworks, clothes, clothing, cog,
     cogwheel, conveniences, cordage, cording, costume, differential,
     differential gear, drapery, dress, dressing, drive train, duds,
     duffel, dunnage, effects, equip, equipage, equipment, facilities,
     facility, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, fit, fit out, fit up,
     fittings, fixtures, freewheel, furnish, furnishings, furniture,
     garb, garments, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel,
     goods, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habit, heel, high,
     impedimenta, implements, innards, installations, intermediate,
     investiture, investment, junk, kit, linen, livery, low, luggage,
     machinery, man, materials, materiel, means, mechanism, motion,
     movement, movements, munition, munitions, neutral, outfit,
     overdrive, panoply, paraphernalia, plant, plumbing, possessions,
     power train, prepare, rack, rags, raiment, regalia, reverse, rig,
     rig out, rig up, rigging, robes, ropework, roping, running rigging,
     service, serving, servomechanism, shit, sportswear, staff,
     standard transmission, standing rigging, stick shift,
     stock-in-trade, stuff, style, suit, supplies, synchromesh, tack,
     tackle, tackling, tailor, things, threads, togs, toilette, tools,
     transmission, trappings, traps, trim, turn out, uniform, utensils,
     vestment, vestments, vesture, watchworks, wear, wearing apparel,
     wheels, wheels within wheels, whipping, workings, works