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GEARS
Noun
gears
plural of gear
Verb
gears
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gear
Anagrams
• Agers, GRASE, Regas, SEGRA, Segar, agers, gaser, rages, regas, sager, sarge, segar
Source: Wiktionary
GEAR
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.
GEAR
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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