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gear

English

  1. 🔊 a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
  2. 🔊 equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
  3. 🔊 a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
  4. 🔊 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”
  5. 🔊 set the level or character of
    “She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 velocidad gear
  2. 🔊 aparejo gear, equipment
  3. 🔊 enseres gear, equipment
  4. 🔊 pertrechos gear, equipment
  5. 🔊 engranaje gear, gear wheel, cog, cog wheel (wheel with grooves)
  6. 🔊 engranaje gear, gearing (combination or choice of interlocking gears)

Similar words

gear wheel geared wheel cogwheel paraphernalia appurtenance gear mechanism gearing geartrain power train train pitch hydromatic accessories accommodate accouter accouterments action adapt adjust apparatus apparel appendages appliances appoint