gear /gēr/

1. Equipment
2. Accoutrements
3. Tackle
4. Clothes, esp (informal) young people's fashion clothes
5. Personal belongings (informal)
6. Illicit drugs (slang)
7. Armour (obsolete)
8. A harness
9. An apparatus
10. A set of tools or a mechanism for some particular purpose
11. Household stuff
12. Stuff, matter (archaic)
13. An affair, business, doings (often contemptuous) (obsolete)
14. Any moving part or system of parts for transmitting motion, eg levers, gearwheels
15. Connection by means of such parts
16. The actual gear ratio in use, or the gearwheels involved in transmitting that ratio, in an automobile gearbox, first gear being the lowest
17. Landing gear
18. Working connection
19. Working order
20. The diameter in inches of a wheel whose circumference equals the distance a bicycle would go for one turn of the pedals

1. To harness
2. To put (eg machinery) in gear
3. To connect in gear
4. To adjust in accordance with the requirements of a particular plan, etc (with to)

1. To be in gear
2. To have a (high or low) gearing (economics)

Unusually good, or (later) very up to date

geared adjective

gearˈing noun

1. Harness
2. Working implements
3. Means of transmission of motion, esp a series of toothed wheels and pinions
4. (in a company's capital) the proportion of debt finance to equity finance (economics)

gearˈless adjective

gearˈbox noun

1. The box containing the apparatus for changing gear
2. (in a motor vehicle) the apparatus itself

gearˈ-case noun

A protective case for the gearing of a bicycle, etc

gearˈ-change or gearˈchange noun

1. A change of gear
2. The mechanism with which one changes gear

gear-lever, gearˈ-stick or (N American) gearˈshift noun

A device for selecting or engaging and disengaging gears

gear ratio noun

The ratio of the driving to the driven members of a gear mechanism

gear train noun

Two or more gearwheels, transmitting motion from one shaft to another

gearˈwheel noun

A wheel with teeth or cogs which impart or transmit motion by acting on a similar wheel or a chain

change gear

To select a higher or lower gear

gear down

1. To make the speed of the driven part lower than that of the driving part
2. To prepare for decreased production, fewer demands, etc

gear up

1. To make the speed of the driven part higher than that of the driving part
2. To prepare for increased production, new demands, etc
3. To raise the gearing of (a company)

high gear

1. A gear ratio giving a high number of revolutions of the driven part relative to the driving part (highˈ-gear adjective)
2. Maximum speed and efficiency, peak performance (figurative)

highly geared

(of a company or its capital) having a high ratio of borrowing in relation to owners' capital, or of debt to equity

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