gear

Definitions

1. 1noun

   Clothing; garments; ornaments.

2. 2noun

   Goods; property; household stuff.

3. 3noun

   Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

4. 4noun

   The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

5. 5noun

   Warlike accouterments.

6. 6noun

   Manner; custom; behavior.

7. 7noun

   Business matters; affairs; concern.

8. 8noun

   A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

9. 9noun

   An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

10. 10noun

    Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

11. 11noun

    See 1st Jeer (b).

12. 12noun

    Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

13. 13transitive verb

    To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

14. 14transitive verb

    To provide with gearing.

15. 15intransitive verb

    To be in, or come into, gear.

16. 16noun

    a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

    Synonyms

    cogwheel
17. 17noun

    equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

    Synonyms

    appurtenanceparaphernalia
18. 18noun

    a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)

19. 19noun

    wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed

    "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain"

    Synonyms

    gearinggeartraintrain
20. 20verb

    set the level or character of

    "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"

    Synonyms

    pitch