Definition of gear

Overview of noun gear

The noun gear has 4 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel

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

2. gearing, gear, geartrain, power train, train

(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")

3. gear, gear mechanism

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

4. gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance

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

Overview of verb gear

The verb gear has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (3) gear, pitch

(set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience")