gear

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
All of this gear is available at both The Hundreds locations and will make its way to key accounts in the weeks to come.

View all »
Definitions (65)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (17)

  1. noun A toothed machine part, such as a wheel or cylinder, that meshes with another toothed part to transmit motion or to change speed or direction.
  2. noun A complete assembly that performs a specific function in a larger machine.
  3. noun A transmission configuration for a specific ratio of engine to axle torque in a motor vehicle.
14 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (40)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (3)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (5)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • The Jazz also has the option of an I-Shift light on the dash to tell you when to change gear, which is a great innovation. —  getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed
  • One type is like a gear, another is like a pulley, another is like a funnel, etc. etc. —  Wired Top Stories
  • So many times pilots forget to extend the landing gear, and if you're conditioned to initiate descent with a power reduction, on the day you forget the landing gear you'll have nothing to directly remind you at this point (in all fairness, almost no gear-up landings happen out of an instrument approach).
  • The addictive part of the game comes into play when you collect enough items to start crafting your own gear, which is both fun and rewarding to see on your in-game character. —  PC World
  • I obliged, not knowing why, since all of the gear was there. —  Do you have an Extra Large in this?
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 192 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

equipment ·  clothe ·  engine ·  wheel ·  cable ·  kit ·  apparatus ·  vehicle ·  machine ·  drive ·  supply ·  weapon

Used in the same contextWord Family

gear:   gears ·  gearing ·  geared
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English gere, equipment, from Old Norse gervi; akin to gera, to do, make, make ready.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. Early modern English also geer; from Middle English gere, ger (never with initial palatal, ʒ or y, as in the related ʒare, yare, modern English yare, the orig. g being preserved by the frequent alliteration with gay, good, golden, graith, etc., or, as in the related verb garen, garren, modern English gar, by Scandinavian influence), from Anglo-Saxon gearwe, plural, preparation, dress, ornament, gear, = Old Saxon garuwi = Old High German garawi, Middle High German garwe (later Old French garbe, later English garb, q. v.) = Icelandic görvi, gjörvi, gear, from Anglo-Saxon gearu, gearo (gearw-), ready, yare: see yare.
  2. from gear, n.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/gir/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a week.

Recently looked up

megachurch · oozy · sartain · chicanery · nonvolatile

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

autotruncate · rimshot · qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake