Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
GEAR
gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel
(noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance
(noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
gear, gear mechanism
(noun) a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
gearing, gear, geartrain, power train, train
(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”
gear, pitch
(verb) set the level or character of; “She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)
(uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
Clothing; garments.
(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
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(countable) A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.
Synonyms: cog, cogwheel, gearwheel
(countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
(countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
(slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
(uncountable, archaic) Stuff.
(obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
Verb
gear (third-person singular simple present gears, present participle gearing, simple past and past participle geared)
(engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
(engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
(usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
(finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.
Adjective
gear (comparative more gear, superlative most gear)
(mostly, Scouse) great or fantastic
Anagrams
• Ager, GRAE, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, rage
Source: Wiktionary
Gear, n. Etym: [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garawi, garwi ornament, dress. See Yare, and cf. Garb dress.]
1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser.
2. Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)
3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. Spenser.
4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] Jamieson.
6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] Chaucer.
7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] Thus go they both together to their gear. Spenser.
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.)
Definition: See 1st Jeer (b).
10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. 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, or out of, gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.
Gear v. t. [imp. & p. p. Geared; p. pr. & vb. n. Gearing.]
1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
2. (Mach.)
Definition: To provide with gearing. Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.
Gear, v. i. (Mach.)
Definition: To be in, or come into, gear.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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