gear

gear
    n 1: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in
         order to change the speed or direction of transmitted
         motion [syn: {gear}, {gear wheel}, {geared wheel},
         {cogwheel}]
    2: 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" [syn:
       {gearing}, {gear}, {geartrain}, {power train}, {train}]
    3: a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose
       (as the steering gear of a vehicle) [syn: {gear}, {gear
       mechanism}]
    4: equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a
       particular operation or sport etc. [syn: {gear},
       {paraphernalia}, {appurtenance}]
    v 1: set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to
         the teenagers in the audience" [syn: {gear}, {pitch}]
    

Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r) v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Geared} (g[=e]rd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Gearing}.]
   1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
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   2. (Mach.) To provide with gearing.
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   3. To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared
      their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.
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   {Double geared}, driven through twofold compound gearing, to
      increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.
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Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing,
   adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG.
   garaw[imac], garw[imac] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf.
   {Garb} dress.]
   1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.
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            Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser.
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   2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer.
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            Homely gear and common ware.          --Robynson
                                                  (More's
                                                  Utopia).
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   3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff
      or material.
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            Clad in a vesture of unknown gear.    --Spenser.
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   4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
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   5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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   6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.]
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            Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser.
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   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.
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   9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st {Jeer}
      (b) .
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   10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or
       Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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             That servant of his that confessed and uttered this
             gear was an honest man.              --Latimer.
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   {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.
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Gear \Gear\, v. i. (Mach.)
   To be in, or come into, gear.
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