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gear

gɪr
WordNet
The main gears are numbered: AF. Page 6 from series of title page and 28 pages.
The main gears are numbered: AF. Page 6 from series of title page and 28 pages.
  1. (v) gear
    set the level or character of "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"
  2. (n) gear
    a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
  3. (n) gear
    equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
  4. (n) gear
    a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
  5. (n) gear
    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"
Illustrations
A number of objects from the nineteenth century, including a gear and a factory.
A number of objects from the nineteenth century, including a gear and a factory.
Model of a workshop with lathe and drill. On the top floor there is a gear for the drive. It is driven from below with an endless rope that runs up through the ceiling over the large gear and down again on the other side; the large sprocket has a flywheel on either side in the form of three arms with weights at the ends. There is a lathe and a drill on the ground floor. The drill is in the corner and is set in motion by a rope at the top. A three-jaw is mounted on a carriage in a frame opposite the drill; the carriage can be pulled completely towards the drill bit. A drive belt runs from the drill to the lathe; the axle of a gun carriage is suspended here, over which the drive wheel is slid. Along the lathe is a bench that offers the turner protection and support points. Not all details of the model are understood.
Model of a lathe and drilling rig
Model of a lead gear, depicting a queen and knight on horseback. Perhaps Mary Stuart and Darnley. Belonging to a set of fourteen lead models of transmission.
Model of a lead gear, depicting a queen and knight on horseback. Perhaps Mary Stuart and Darnley. Belonging to a set of fourteen lead models of transmission.
Truss model of the port half of a stern above the waterline, demonstrating the steering gear. The stern has an elliptical stern and three decks, all marked with their webs; the top deck is open. It has a large cross-shaped screw sleeve between stern and screw stem. Just in front of the propeller shaft, the drum of the steering wheel is on the top deck. The steering gear, which runs just below the top deck, is a mixture of Rapson slide and idler. The lower rudder pin, which is moved by the steering gear, is curved to move in the port space of the propeller shaft; it is not directly connected to the rudder stock, but rotates on its own axis and the movement is transferred to the rudder stock with two joints. Between rails, which are arranged between the screw tube and the ship's hull, a plate goes back and forth with a bracket loosely around the stem, driven by the handlebar that goes over two discs on top of this plate. The play in the bracket allows the stem to follow the movement of the plate, without being hindered in the arc movement it describes. The tension of the handlebar can be adjusted with a tensioning screw. The rudder is of the type described under NG-MC-1064. Scale 1:20.
Truss model of the port half of a stern above the waterline, demonstrating the steering gear. The stern has an elliptical stern and three decks, all marked with their webs; the top deck is open. It has a large cross-shaped screw sleeve between stern and screw stem. Just in front of the propeller shaft, the drum of the steering wheel is on the top deck. The steering gear, which runs just below the top deck, is a mixture of Rapson slide and idler. The lower rudder pin, which is moved by the steering gear, is curved to move in the port space of the propeller shaft; it is not directly connected to the rudder stock, but rotates on its own axis and the movement is transferred to the rudder stock with two joints. Between rails, which are arranged between the screw tube and the ship's hull, a plate goes back and forth with a bracket loosely around the stem, driven by the handlebar that goes over two discs on top of this plate. The play in the bracket allows the stem to follow the movement of the plate, without being hindered in the arc movement it describes. The tension of the handlebar can be adjusted with a tensioning screw. The rudder is of the type described under NG-MC-1064. Scale 1:20.
Black iron plaque in the shape of a gear on a (loose) tripod stand with inscription and a soldered letter 'A' in the middle.
Black iron plaque in the shape of a gear on a (loose) tripod stand with inscription and a soldered letter 'A' in the middle.
Caricature portrait of the painter Theophile de Bock (1851-1904), hiding in rain gear (south-west and wide cape).
Caricature portrait of the painter Theophile de Bock (1851-1904), hiding in rain gear (south-west and wide cape).
Goblet, silver with lid, decorated with gearing, on the cuppa the allegories of War, Peace and Justice with appropriate poems. The cuppa rests on three child figures with bunches of grapes. On the base six coats of arms with the captions: Gerryt Kloecken; Pieter Jansen, Swarte Suis; Roelof Stroombergh, Jan van Steenwijck, Fransisalana. On the lid the coat of arms of Oranje and the portraits of the princes Willem I, Maurits, Fred. Hendrik, William II and Willem III. As a crowning achievement, Neptune riding a hippocampus. On the inside a portrait with the caption Henderick Bentinck Heer van Diepenheim, Drost van Vollenhoven and Heerlijckheyt Kuynder. Silver mark and illegible. The points of Neptune's trident are missing
Goblet, silver with lid, decorated with gearing, on the cuppa the allegories of War, Peace and Justice with appropriate poems. The cuppa rests on three child figures with bunches of grapes. On the base six coats of arms with the captions: Gerryt Kloecken; Pieter Jansen, Swarte Suis; Roelof Stroombergh, Jan van Steenwijck, Fransisalana. On the lid the coat of arms of Oranje and the portraits of the princes Willem I, Maurits, Fred. Hendrik, William II and Willem III. As a crowning achievement, Neptune riding a hippocampus. On the inside a portrait with the caption Henderick Bentinck Heer van Diepenheim, Drost van Vollenhoven and Heerlijckheyt Kuynder. Silver mark and illegible. The points of Neptune's trident are missing
Copper medal. Obverse: helmeted coat of arms inside legend. Reverse: man pulling rope of hoisting gear within outline
Copper medal. Obverse: helmeted coat of arms inside legend. Reverse: man pulling rope of hoisting gear within outline
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Gear
    (Mech) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
  2. Gear
    Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. "That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man."
  3. Gear
    Business matters; affairs; concern. "Thus go they both together to their gear ."
  4. Gear
    Clothing; garments; ornaments. "Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear ."
  5. Gear
    Goods; property; household stuff. "Homely gear and common ware."
  6. Gear
    Manner; custom; behavior.
  7. Gear
    (Naut) See 1st Jeer.
  8. Gear
    The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
  9. Gear
    To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.
  10. Gear
    (Mach) To be in, or come into, gear.
  11. Gear
    To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
  12. Gear
    (Mach) To provide with gearing.
  13. Gear
    Warlike accouterments.
  14. Gear
    Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. "Clad in a vesture of unknown gear ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) gear
    A state of preparation or fitness; a suitable or fitting condition: as, to be out of gear; to bring anything into gear.
  2. (n) gear
    Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material; hence, habit; dress; ornaments; armor.
  3. (n) gear
    Any special set of things forming essential parts or appurtenances, or utilized for or connected with some special act, occupation, etc.: as, hunting-gear. Specifically— The harness or furniture of working animals; whatever is used in equipping horses or cattle for draft or other use; tackle.
  4. (n) gear
    Naut.. the ropes, blocks, etc., belonging to any particular sail or spar: as, the mainsail-gear, the foretop-mast-gear.
  5. (n) gear
    In machinery, the appliances or furnishings connected with the acting parts of any piece of mechanism: as, expansion-gear, valve-gear. More particularly— Toothed wheels collectively. The connection of toothed wheels with each other; gearing: as, to throw machinery into or out of gear.
  6. (n) gear
    A coal-miners' set of tools.
  7. (n) gear
    plural In coal-mining, staging and rails for shipping coal on wharves.
  8. (n) gear
    Goods; property in general.
  9. (n) gear
    A matter; an affair; affairs collectively.
  10. (n) gear
    Ordinary manner; behavior; custom; practice.
  11. gear
    To put into gear; prepare for operation; fit with gear or gearing: as, to gear up a wagon; to gear a machine or an engine.
  12. gear
    In machinery, to fit into another part, as one part of gearing into another. See gearing.
  13. (n) gear
    The diameter of an imaginary wheel whose circumference is equal to the distance traversed by a safety-bicycle during a single revolution of the pedals: as, a 72-inch gear.
  14. (n) gear
    A toothed wheel in which the axial lines of any one tooth are made up of two helical lines of equal pitch, one right-handed and one left-handed, which meet at the center of the face or breadth of the toothed surface. Such gears are called herring-bone gears, from the V-shape which each tooth receives. In this latter form they can only be used when the shafts are parallel.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Gear
    gēr a state of preparation: dress: harness: tackle: :
  2. (v.t) Gear
    to put in gear, as machinery
  3. (n) Gear
    gēr (mech.) connection by means of toothed wheels
  4. (n) Gear
    gēr (obs.) a matter, affair
Quotations
C. O. Jackson
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
C. O. Jackson
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Barbara Johnson
Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.
Source Unknown
There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
C. C. Phelps
Idioms

Grinds my gear - Something that is very annoying grinds your gear.

In high gear - (USA) If something is in high gear, it is in a quick-paced mode. If someone is in high gear, they are feverishly on the fast track.

Kick into gear - If something kicks into gear, it gets going or started.

Move up a gear - If you move up a gear, you start to perform in a clearly better way, especially in sport.

Step up a gear - If you step up a gear, you perform noticeably better, especially in sport.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe, clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garawī, garwī, ornament, dress. See Yare, and cf. Garb dress

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary M. E. gere, prob. Ice. gervi; cf. A.S. gearwe, Old High Ger. garawi, Eng. yare and gar, v.

Usage in the news

Oklahoma State University engineering students geared up for the 12th Annual Chem-E-Car Competition at Wes Watkins Center Tuesday afternoon. stwnewspress.com

Flux Pavillion's Santa Monica Dubstep Show Greeted By Police In Riot Gear. laweekly.com

'A Chorus Line ' Kicks Into High Gear at Plummer Auditorium. coastmagazine.com

The re-vamped location provides shoppers with two levels of designer gear, a VIP area and even a custom fireplace. hollywoodreporter.com

The gear and trailer belonged to Boy Scout Troop 127. macon.com

NASSAU'S Republican and Democratic leaders are already gearing up for what promises to be the mother of all town political campaigns on Long Island, although they do not know yet exactly when this year the election will be. nytimes.com

Campaigns are moving into high gear, the big dollars are flowing, and candidates are pulling out the stops — in one race, even resorting to competing music videos. nypress.com

Both vehicles inherit the Honda hallmark of a gear selector that slips from fifth to fourth where the detent starts. hispanicbusiness.com

Almost two months after an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, shortages of government-required protective gear and cleaning equipment are slowing work to remove the sticky mess and keep beaches along the coast safe and oil-free. marconews.com

Brazil is gearing up to host the 2014 football World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. prweek.com

BBC's 'Top Gear' Clocked at 220.5mph on America's Fastest Road. kodm.com

When SH130 in Austin, Texas opened last Tuesday – with the fastest speed limit in the western hemisphere – the guys from BBC's Top Gear were there to see just how fast they could go on the new toll road. kodm.com

"Gearing Up for Governor Tom," Kenny Be, August 5. estword.com

New clothing store geared toward (w)hole kid. planetjh.com

The legislative process is gearing up for a big finish as hundreds of bills made it by the crossover deadline between the two chambers. midweek.com

Usage in scientific papers

Since researchers in so many disparate fields are involved, this review is geared towards the non-expert/advanced graduate level, with descriptions of both theoretical frameworks and experimental/observational approaches.
Modern tests of Lorentz invariance

Pan-Starrs is gearing up for a two order of magnitude increase over this area, within the next five years.
Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP

See Jones for an introduction geared towards those new to NMR Quantum Computing. 5 In particular see where Knill, Laflamme, and Zurek justified the idea of an error location for the purpose of quantum error correction.
Fault Models for Quantum Mechanical Switching Networks

These fundamental domains are geared towards the detailed study of the spectral theory of X and the embedded subspace XR = ΓZ \GR/KR .
A fundamental domain of Ford type for $SO(3,Z[i])\backslash SO(3,C)/SO(3)$, and for $SO(2,1)_Z\backslash SO(2,1)/SO(2)$

These fundamental domains are geared towards the detailed study of the spectral theory of X and the embedded subspace XR = ΓZ \GR /KR .
A fundamental domain of Ford type for $SO(3,Z[i])\backslash SO(3,C)/SO(3)$, and for $SO(2,1)_Z\backslash SO(2,1)/SO(2)$

Usage in literature

In less than an hour they were jogging along the road at pretty lively gait for their slow-geared outfit. "Oswald Langdon" by Carson Jay Lee

It coughed and spluttered on a powerful, old-fashioned low gear, while its engine throbbed like a weary heart. "Danger! and Other Stories" by Arthur Conan Doyle

If you have to be endlessly speculating, watching, and making mental notes, your brain-gears soon get a hot box. "Pipefuls" by Christopher Morley

Ezekiel Gear of Galena. "Old Fort Snelling" by Marcus L. Hansen

Prithee, let such gear a-be. "Clare Avery" by Emily Sarah Holt

Their saddle-cloths and saddles were richly worked, and the head-gear of their horses was adorned with gay tassels. "A Voyage round the World" by W.H.G. Kingston

I shall give thee thy gear and thy wedding-feast. "A Forgotten Hero" by Emily Sarah Holt

He was returning for the remainder of the boat's gear, when he met Eban with it on his shoulders. "Michael Penguyne" by William H. G. Kingston

If it be not wicked to say the same," added she timidly, "I would God were not angered with us for such like small gear. "The White Rose of Langley" by Emily Sarah Holt

The spindles are fitted with self-acting motions O 1 and O 2, which are easily thrown in and out of gear. "Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught" by Joshua Rose

Usage in poetry
"God bless ye, frien'," the guid man said,
"Sae muckle gear afore
Has seldom lain within my luif,
Or yet within my door."
"Ballad of The Monkland Cottar" by Janet Hamilton
"Would I not give my gold and gear,
Yea, unto seven times seven,
So I might hope to grasp again
My comrade's hand in heaven?"
"The Comrade" by Cicely Fox Smith
Now Jamie Telfer's heart was sair,
The tear aye rowing in his e'e;
He pled wi' the captain to hae his gear,
Or else revenged he wad be.
"Jamie Telfer" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
And who did pay for all this geare,
That thou didst spend when pleased thee,
Even I that am rejected here
And thou disdainst to love me.
"Greensleeves" by Anonymous British
Lord Hafbur lets his hair wax long,
And will have the gear of mays,
And he rideth to King Siward’s house
And will well learn weaving ways.
"Hafbur And Signy" by William Morris Author object (714)
O what are they doing with all that gear,
What are they doing this morning, morning?
Only their usual manoeuvres, dear,
Or perhaps a warning.
"O What Is That Sound" by W H Auden Author object (678)