Meaning of gear | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
   uncountable
2. A surname.
3. speed
4. Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor
5. Clothing; garments.
   countable, uncountable
6. velocity
7. Clothing; garments
8. Goods; property; household items.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
9. Goods; property; household items
10. A wheel, wheel segment, or bar with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.
    countable
11. A wheel, wheel segment, or bar with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other
12. A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved; often selected via a shifter.
    countable
13. A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved; often selected via a shifter. A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque
14. A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
    countable
15. Ellipsis of landing gear.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
16. Recreational drugs, including steroids.
    slang, uncountable
17. Stuff.
    archaic, uncountable
18. Business matters; affairs; concern.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
19. Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
    UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Aray thy selfe in her most gorgeous geare”

“Those Eastern winters, ⁠I can't endure 'em / So every year I pack my gear and come out here till Purim / Rosh Hashanah, I spend in Arizona”

“Homely gear and common ware.”

“Near-synonyms: (wheel types) cog, cogwheel, gear wheel, gearwheel”

“gear-up landing”

“Get the gear down quick!”

“getting on gear”

“"Have you got any gear? Dominic, have you got any acid?" Emma kept running her hands nervously through her hair. "Not LSD, man; that last trip freaked me out."”

“When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose.”

“goe they both together to their geare.”

“March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.”

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