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Gear   /gɪr/   Listen
noun
Gear  n.  
1.
Clothing; garments; ornaments. "Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear."
2.
Goods; property; household stuff. "Homely gear and common ware."
3.
Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. "Clad in a vesture of unknown gear."
4.
The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
5.
Warlike accouterments. (Scot.)
6.
Manner; custom; behavior. (Obs.)
7.
Business matters; affairs; concern. (Obs.) "Thus go they both together to their gear."
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.
9.
pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b).
10.
Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man."
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.


verb
Gear  v. t.  (past & past part. geared; pres. part. gearing)  
1.
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
2.
(Mach.) To provide with gearing.
3.
To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.
Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; said of a machine.


Gear  v. i.  (Mach.) To be in, or come into, gear.





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"Gear" Quotes from Famous Books



... she left me to don the war gear for the last time, as she told me. She would dress herself even as she had been clad for the funeral and as we had ...
— A Sea Queen's Sailing • Charles Whistler
... couple of "comrades" with automobiles then took up the work of delivering the paper in the nearby towns; so Peter was sent to get acquainted with these fellows, and in the night time some of Guffey's men entered the garage, and fixed one of the cars so that its steering gear went wrong and very nearly broke the driver's neck. So yet ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair
... a sleeping-car on the Boston and Albany Road. The curtains are drawn before most of the berths; from the hooks and rods hang hats, bonnets, bags, bandboxes, umbrellas, and other travelling gear; on the floor are boots of both sexes, set out for THE PORTER to black. THE PORTER is making up the beds in the upper and lower berths adjoining the seats on which a young mother, slender and pretty, with a baby asleep on the seat beside her, and a stout old lady, sit confronting ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... of the Fairport Guard who had not had the precaution to tie on their head-gear, might be seen breaking rank and running indecorously in various directions in pursuit of hat or cap, while the skirts of the captain's time-honored coat flapped in the wind, like the signal of a ship ...
— The Boy Patriot • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... of mating, which may be classed as sex-promiscuity, such, for example, as exist among the Esquimaux, and also among the Dyaks, of Borneo, where a "contract" is made for a night by the simple expediency of the man and the woman exchanging head-gear, we come to one of the earliest and most general forms of marriage among primitive peoples, where the parents arranged a marriage between their children for reasons of personal profit. In these instances, neither the youth nor the girl was consulted and generally did not ...
— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad


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