The noun gear refers to several things. First, it’s the equipment we need for a sport or event. A gear is also a wheel with teeth that interlocks with another gear to transmit motion in a machine.
Clothing; garments; ornaments.
Noun
a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
Noun
equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Noun
a mechanism for transmitting motion by gears for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
Verb
set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"
n.
Clothing; garments; ornaments.
n.
Goods; property; household stuff.
n.
Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or
material.
n.
The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
n.
Warlike accouterments.
n.
Manner; custom; behavior.
n.
Business matters; affairs; concern.
n.
A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel
gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
n.
An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as,
the feed gear of a lathe.
n.
Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of
gear.
n.
See 1st Jeer (b).
n.
Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
v. t.
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
v. t.
To provide with gearing.
v. i.
To be in, or come into, gear.
Gear
Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear.2.
Homely gear and common ware.3.
Clad in a vesture of unknown gear.4.
Thus go they both together to their gear.8.
That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.
Gear
Gear
Clothing; garments; ornaments.
To be in, or come into, gear.
Usage Examples
The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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Other Usage ExamplesBefore you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.