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gear

See also: géar, gèar, and Gear

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

 
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gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)

  1. (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
  2. Clothing; garments.
  3. (obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
  4. (countable) A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.
    Synonyms: cog, cogwheel, gearwheel
  5. (countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
  6. (countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
  7. (aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.
    gear-up landing
    Get the gear down quick!
  8. (uncountable, slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
    • 2003, Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)
      "Have you got any gear? Dominic, have you got any acid?" Emma kept running her hands nervously through her hair. "Not LSD, man; that last trip freaked me out."
  9. (uncountable, archaic) Stuff.
    • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
      When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose.
  10. (obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
  11. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
    • March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward
      That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

gear wheel — see gear wheel

VerbEdit

gear (third-person singular simple present gears, present participle gearing, simple past and past participle geared)

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  1. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
  2. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
  3. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
  4. (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
    This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.
    They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.
  5. (finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

gear (comparative more gear, superlative most gear)

  1. (chiefly Liverpudlian) great or fantastic

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Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Irish gér, from Old Irish gér.

VerbEdit

gear (verbal noun gearey)

  1. to laugh, chuckle

AdjectiveEdit

gear

  1. sharp, keen
  2. sour, acid

Further readingEdit

Old EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

 
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From Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁r-.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ġēar n

  1. year
    • c. 9-12 AD, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:
      Þis wæs fēorþes ġēares his rīċes
      This was in the fourth year of his reign.
  2. the runic character ᛄ (/j/)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of gear (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative ġēar ġēar
accusative ġēar ġēar
genitive ġēares ġēara
dative ġēare ġēarum

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle English: yeer, here, yere, ȝere
    • English: year
    • Scots: year

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From an Old Galician-Portuguese *gear (compare geo), from Latin gelāre. Doublet of the borrowing gelar. Compare also Galician xear.

PronunciationEdit

 

  • Hyphenation: ge‧ar

VerbEdit

gear (impersonal, third-person singular present geia, third-person singular preterite geou, past participle geado)

  1. (impersonal) to frost (weather)

ConjugationEdit

    Conjugation of gear (impersonal; e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Singular Plural
First-person
(eu) 		Second-person
(tu) 		Third-person
(ele / ela / você) 		First-person
(nós) 		Second-person
(vós) 		Third-person
(eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal gear
Personal — — gear — — —
Gerund
geando
Past participle
Masculine geado —
Feminine — —
Indicative
Present — — geia — — —
Imperfect — — geava — — —
Preterite — — geou — — —
Pluperfect — — geara — — —
Future — — geará — — —
Conditional
— — gearia — — —
Subjunctive
Present — — geie — — —
Imperfect — — geasse — — —
Future — — gear — — —
Imperative
Affirmative — — — — —
Negative (não) — — — — —

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West FrisianEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

gear

  1. together

Further readingEdit

  • “gear (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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