gear lever

English

A typical 5-speed stickshift pattern.

A typical column shifter for an automatic transmission.

Noun

gear lever (plural gear levers)

1. (especially UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The lever used to change gears in a motor vehicle.

   Synonyms: (British) gear stick, gear shift; (US, Canada) shifter, shift lever, stick, stickshift

   Hypernym: shifter

2. The lever used to change gears on other types of machines, such as a machine tool.

Related terms

• gearbox

Translations

lever used to change gears

• Afrikaans: rathefboom
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: gearstang (da) c
• Dutch: versnellingspook (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: gervisstong f, girstong f
• Finnish: vaihdekeppi (fi), vaihteenvalitsin
• French: levier de vitesses m
• German: Schalthebel (de) m, Schaltknüppel (de) m
• Icelandic: gírstöng f
• Italian: leva del cambio
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: girspak m, girstang

  Nynorsk: girspak m, girstang

• Polish: dźwignia zmiany biegów f
• Romanian: schimbător (ro) n, schimbător de viteze n, levier de viteze
• Spanish: palanca de cambios f, cambio de marchas m
• Swedish: växelspak (sv) c
• Tagalog: kambyo
• Turkish: kol (tr), vites (tr), vites kolu (tr)

See also

• manual transmission
• stickshift
• automatic transmission
• downshift
• upshift
• bottom gear
• low gear
• creeper gear
• first gear
• second gear
• third gear
• fourth gear
• fifth gear
• overdrive
• top gear

 

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