gear

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Tear apart a Kwikset keypad lock and see how few gears it has.

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Quick take

a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gear gathered in one view.

noun

a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

noun

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"

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gear.

noun

a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

noun

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"

noun

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

noun

equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

verb

set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"

Example sentences

Tear apart a Kwikset keypad lock and see how few gears it has.

At worst you'd have to get a custom designed output gear.

Even then there are many Chinese vendors who make gears.

We'd pull up with nine eighteen-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max.

The worm gear drives the flat gear, naturally, which catches the snail-cam and drives it forward.

The guards came in riot gear to tackle him, but he was so slippery it was like trying to catch an eel.

Why wrench and a screwdriver, when a gear is a visually simpler icon that is widely understood?

Simpler to just build a piece of gear that looks and operates exactly like the original but is your own design.

If you plotted the announcements of new generation mining gear against those charts in the same way Google News does you'd likely find that each big spike is equal to in time as new_mining_gear_announcement_date + new_mining_grear_delivery_date4.

On the one hand I'm very excited by this; I see Marco as an interesting writer/speaker, when it comes to iOS development or when he geeks out about whatever gear he's recently bought.

Your muscle memory tells you how to reach the wiper stalk or the gear shift, which is why it's sometimes disconcerting to get into a car with the gears on the steering column if you normally shift in the center console.

But to the consumer, the forward facing arguments are exactly the same: "Buy what you need, each separately, and link them all, as needed rather than a huge AIO - one size fits all".The Mac Pro is requires you to bring your own HDs, bring your own expansion cards, bring your own network gear.

Why is the letter A transmitting, when it's actually about receiving?So not to sound like a complete ass, here's what I would've used instead - a gear for preferences, a "power off/on" symbol for logout, a simple blank page with a plus sign for "new", some sort of inbox or even an envelope for "notifications".

And there were many, many technical errors — whether it was the girders couldn't support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren't big enough to move the gear through.> The contract rider read like a version of the Chinese Yellow Pages because there was so much equipment, and so many human beings to make it function.