SkyfireDict

gear   (TTS Sound)

The noun gear has 4 senses

• 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)


• 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")


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


• gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance -- (equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.)

The verb gear has 1 sense

• gear, pitch -- (set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience")