单词 | geared |
释义 | gearedadj.ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] weaponedc1000 armedc1300 well-armedc1300 well-weaponeda1325 armed to the teethc1380 well-steeledc1390 warlikec1420 anarm1426 boden1429 well-harnesseda1450 geared1488 well-geared1488 well-boden1496 warly1508 enarmedc1540 burled1616 undisarmed1649 of (good) force1697 tooled up1959 weaponized1973 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 806 Twa hundreth haill off weill gerit Inglismen. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > provided or supplied with something > equipped or fitted out ygraitheda1225 armedc1300 attired1330 wrienc1330 seena1400 adubbed?1473 appointed1535 instructed1538 accoutredc1540 furnished1553 geared1588 appurtenanced1602 instruct?1614 garnished1705 equipped1838 outfitted1975 1588 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 329 vj geared yockes 4s., iiij yockes, vngeared, 16d., v geard forkes 20d., ij forkes, ungeared, 6d. 3. a. Machinery. Connected with the motor by gearing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [adjective] > types of cogs or gears > connected by gearing geared1831 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants iii. 288 Nine ox mills, on the inclined plane, five geared horse-mills. 1868 Gainsborough News 27 June (N.W. Linc. Gloss.) Six double-geared slide and break lathes. 1881 Eng. Mech. 27 May 1/2 Back Geared Lathe, 4½ in. centres, bed 3 ft. 6 in. long; per set £2 5s. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 396/1 Geared Locomotive, a locomotive in which the motion of the engine is conveyed by gearing to the travelling wheels. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 396/1 Geared Brace, a boring tool in which the drill or bit is rotated by hand crank and bevel gear. 1894 Ld. Albemarle & G. L. Hillier Cycling (rev. ed.) xii. 303 The Geared Ordinary. This, a relatively new type, has not secured that measure of success which its friends hoped for it. b. Finance. Of a company or its capital (see gearing n. 3b). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [adjective] > other types of company capitalless1837 merged1839 multinational1854 co-op1872 acquiring1880 syndicated1889 trustified1890 bottom-heavy1895 prospectusless1898 wholly-owned1906 semi-pro1908 not-for-profit1913 blue chip1924 mature1928 geared1930 liquid1930 footloose1939 monoline1958 boutique1968 greenfield1969 me-too1976 semi-professional1976 demerged1980 unbundled1980 multidomestic1982 unorganized1986 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > other attributes of investments or capital sound1601 unexchanged1618 discountable1771 defensive1857 uncalled1869 callable1874 pooled1888 unwatered1893 labile1894 aggressive1899 non-callable1902 geared1930 escrowed1946 undynamized1969 banded1987 1930 Economist 25 Oct. 768/2 Ordinary stocks..by reason of the ‘high geared’ capital structure of the companies..must always bear the jolts and jars of trade fluctuations. 1940 Economist 6 July 14/1 The relatively high income thus secured was indispensable for paying generous debenture interest and preference dividends on a highly geared paid-up capital. 1965 A. Seldon & F. G. Pennance Everyman's Dict. Econ. 193 Gearing, the proportion of a company's annual income allocated to ‘prior charges’ (interest on debentures and preference dividends), the remainder going to the ordinary shareholders. Where it is high the company is said to be highly geared, and conversely. 4. Harnessed. ΚΠ a1847 in H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio (1847) 138 We..fixed geared horses to the carriages, and moved for Fort Jefferson. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1488 |
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