Gear
[gɪə] or [ɡɪr]
Definition
(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 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'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Apparel, dress, furniture, accoutrements, ornaments, TOGGERY.[2]. Harness, caparison, rigging, trappings, equipments.[3]. Gearing, toothed wheels, series of cog-wheels.
Typist: Remington
Definition
n. a state of preparation: dress: harness: tackle: (mech.) connection by means of toothed wheels: (obs.) a matter affair.—v.t. to put in gear as machinery.—p.adj. Geared connected with the motor by gearing.—ns. Gear′ing harness: working implements: (mech.) a train of toothed wheels and pinions; Gear′-wheel a wheel with teeth or cogs which impart or transmit motion by acting on those of another wheel; Driv′ing-gear those parts in a machine most nearly concerned in imparting motion.—Multiplying gearing a combination of cog-wheels for imparting motion from wheels of larger to wheels of smaller diameter by which the rate of revolution is increased; Out of gear out of running order unprepared; Straight gearing the name given when the planes of motion are parallel—opposed to Bevelled gearing when the direction is changed (see Bevel).
Typist: Susan
Examples
- The cutter was driven by a pitman from a crank shaft operated through gear wheels from the main drive wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Next to the center comes the third pinion and wheel, and then the fourth, which is the last wheel in the train which has regular gear teeth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which has got out of gear. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The engine here employed was the Catch Me Who Can, and had a vertical cylinder and piston, without the toothed gear wheels shown in the illustration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We will not deal in this gear. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Some years later, also, Daft again tried friction gear in his historical experiments on the Manhattan Elevated road, but the results were attended with no greater success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On the circumference of the barrel are gear teeth, and those teeth engage corresponding teeth on the arbor of the center. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It geared into a unit drum, just as do speed-indicators and cyclometers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was driven by a double acting high pressure engine, and geared so as to rotate wagon wheels by which it was transported on land, as well as the paddle wheels when on the water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Well, anyhow, Mas'r wants Bill and Jerry geared right up; and you and I 's to go with Mas'r Haley, to look arter her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- This consisted of a regulation tandem bicycle on which was mounted a gasoline motor geared up to the rear wheel with a chain drive. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And I knew then that the First Born had stolen it from the ships of Helium, for only they are thus geared. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A brake was provided for in the specification, as were also variable gears for changing speed, and an automatic blower for the fire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As the waxed disc and pan are revolved, the stylus and diaphragm are gradually moved by gears toward the center of the disc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- All of the parts of the bicycle have come in for a share of attention at the hands of inventors, differential speed gears and brakes having received especial attention. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As the armature rotates, its motion is communicated by gears to the wheels, the necessary current reaching the motor through the overhead wires. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A large sulphate of copper battery was employed, which could through the agency of a train of gears give only a very slow speed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It consisted of a circular series of barrels mounted on a central shaft, and revolved by suitable gears and a hand crank. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This model was kept first at G?ttingen and afterward at Hanover, but it did not act efficiently, as the gears were not cut with sufficient accuracy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The fly-wheel carries forward the work at the outset and the gearing the rest of the time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- McCormick’s last named patent also covered the arrangement of the gearing and crank in front of the drive wheel, so as to balance the weight of the raker. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Clermont’s engines were coupled to the crank shaft by a bell crank, and the paddle wheel shaft was separated from the crank shaft, but connected with it by gearing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Everything worked to a charm, until, in starting up at one end of the road, the friction gearing was brought into action too suddenly and it was wrecked. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In one form of device this change of speed is altered by a system of cone gearing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- After some consideration of the gearing question, it was decided to employ belts instead of the friction-pulleys. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Again, an electric motor has been invented to be placed on the car itself, with connected gearing engaging rack bars in the well. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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