gear
Gear is defined as clothing or equipment needed for something specific.
(noun)An example of gear is a mask for hockey.
Gear means to make ready or prepare.
(verb)An example of gear is to prepare the home for a hurricane.
The definition of a gear is a simple machine with teeth that increases the force needed to push or pull something.
Functions of Gears
- Gears can increase speed, increase force or change direction.
- A gear is a simple, rotating machine which usually has teeth (cogs).
- When they connect to another gear, they transmit torque, which is like a twisting force.
- When two gears work together, it is called a transmission.
- Not all gears have teeth. In a rack and pinion gear, the pinion is the gear wheel and it meshes with the rack, which is a long bar with cogs.
An example of a gear is a bike chain.
See gear in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- Obsolete the clothing and equipment of a soldier, knight, etc.
- clothing; apparel
- movable property; esp., apparatus or equipment for some particular task, as a workman's tools, the rigging of a ship, a harness, etc.
- a toothed wheel, disk, etc. designed to mesh with another or with the thread of a worm
- a system of two or more gears meshed together so that the motion of one controls the speed and torque of another
- a specific adjustment of such a system
- any part of a mechanism performing a specific function: the steering gear
Origin: ME gere, prob. < ON gervi, preparation, ornament, akin to OE gearo, yare
adjective
transitive verb
- to furnish with gear; harness
- to adapt (one thing) so as to conform with another: to gear production to demand
- Mech.
- to connect by gears
- to furnish with gears
- to put into gear
intransitive verb
See gear in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A toothed machine part, such as a wheel or cylinder, that meshes with another toothed part to transmit motion or to change speed or direction.b. A complete assembly that performs a specific function in a larger machine.c. A transmission configuration for a specific ratio of engine to axle torque in a motor vehicle.
- Equipment, such as tools or clothing, used for a particular activity: fishing gear. See Synonyms at equipment.
- a. Clothing and accessories: the latest gear for teenagers.b. Personal belongings, including clothing: keeps her gear in a trunk.
- The harness for a horse.
- Nautical a. A ship's rigging.b. A sailor's personal effects.
- a. To equip with gears.b. To connect by gears.c. To put into gear.
- To adjust or adapt so as to make suitable: geared the speech to a conservative audience.
- To provide with gear; equip.
- To come into or be in gear.
- To become adjusted so as to fit or blend.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English gere, equipment
Origin: , from Old Norse gervi
Origin: ; akin to gera, to do, make, make ready
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