gear

Speech parts

1. gear - Noun

2. gear - Adjective

3. gear - Verb

4. Gear - Proper noun

Meaning

Clothing; garments; ornaments.

Goods; property; household stuff.

Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

Warlike accouterments.

Manner; custom; behavior.

Business matters; affairs; concern.

A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

See 1st Jeer (b).

Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

To provide with gearing.

To be in, or come into, gear.

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To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. Ralph Bunche

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant. Indro Montanelli

I don't need to prove the worthiness of my existence to some fuckin' cunts wearing the coolest gear at the moment. Ville Valo

Boden gear stinks. Scottish Proverb

Forget the fishing gear as soon as the fish is caught. Chinese Proverb

God keep ill gear out o' my hands; for if my hand ance get it, my heart winna part wi't, sae prayed the gude earl of eglinton. Scottish Proverb

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