Gear word meaning and definition

[noun] a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
[noun] equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
[noun] a mechanism for transmitting motion by gears for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
[verb] set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"

\Gear\, n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[=i], garw[=i] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf. {Garb} dress.] 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser. 2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. --Spenser. 4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. 5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson. 6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser. 8. (Mech.)
(a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
(b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
(c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. 9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st {Jeer}
(b) . 10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. --Latimer. {Bever gear}. See {Bevel gear}. {Core gear}, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See {Mortise wheel}, under {Mortise}. {Expansion gear} (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under {Expansion}. {Feed gear}. See {Feed motion}, under {Feed}, n. {Gear cutter}, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting. {Gear wheel}, any cogwheel. {Running gear}. See under {Running}. {To throw} {in, or out of}, {gear} (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.
\Gear\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Geared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gearing}.] 1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness. 2. (Mach.) To provide with gearing. {Double geared}, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.
\Gear\, v. i. (Mach.) To be in, or come into, gear.

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