meaning of gear
1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.
2. Goods; property; household stuff.
3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
5. Warlike accouterments.
6. Manner; custom; behavior.
7. Business matters; affairs; concern.
8. A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
9. An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
10. Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
11. See 1st Jeer (b).
12. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
13. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
14. To provide with gearing.
15. To be in, or come into, gear.
16. a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
Related Words
gear | gear case | gear lever | gear mechanism | gear up | gear wheel | gearbox | geared | gearing | gears | gearset | gearshift | gearstick | geartrain |
