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gear

See also: géar, gèar, and Gear

English

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Germanic *ga-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-der.
Proto-Germanic *arwaz
Proto-Germanic *garwaz
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *garwijanąder.
Old Norse gervibor.
Middle English gere
English gear

    From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.

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    gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)

    1. (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
    2. Clothing; garments.
    3. (obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
    5. (countable) A wheel, wheel segment, or bar with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.
      Near-synonyms: (wheel types) cog, cogwheel, gear wheel, gearwheel
    7. (countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved; often selected via a shifter.
      1. (countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
    8. (aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.
      gear-up landing
      Get the gear down quick!
    9. (uncountable, slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
      getting on gear
      • 2003, Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver, page 90:
        "Have you got any gear? Dominic, have you got any acid?" Emma kept running her hands nervously through her hair. "Not LSD, man; that last trip freaked me out."
    10. (uncountable, archaic) Stuff.
      • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
        When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose.
    11. (obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
    12. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
      • March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward
        That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.

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    • Tok Pisin: gia
    • → Japanese: ギア (gia)
    • → Samoan: kia

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    gear (third-person singular simple present gears, present participle gearing, simple past and past participle geared)

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    1. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
    2. (engineering, intransitive) To be in gear, come into gear.
    3. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
    4. (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
      This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.
      They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.
    5. (finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.

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    Adjective

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    gear (comparative more gear, superlative most gear)

    1. (chiefly Liverpool) great or fantastic

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    Manx

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    Etymology 1

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    From Old Irish gáirid.

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    gear (verbal noun gearey)

    1. to laugh, chuckle

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    From Middle Irish gér, from Old Irish gér.

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    gear

    1. sharp, keen
    2. sour, acid

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    Mutation of gear
    radical lenition eclipsis
    gear ghear ngear

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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    Old English

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      From Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁r-.

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      ġēar n (West Saxon)

      1. year
        • The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
          Ic þē secge, hēo wæs iii and sixtiġ ġēara eald, ðā hēo belȳfen wæs...
          I tell thee, she was three and sixty years old when she died...
        • c. 9-12 CE, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:
          Þis wæs fēorþes ġēares his rīċes
          This was in the fourth year of his reign.
        • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"
          Þa wurdon hi ealle þurh þæt wundor ablicgede and þæs þægnes gebedda ðe þa gebroþra heold wæs for six gearum for swiðlicre untrumnysse...
          Then they were all astonished at that miracle; and the wife of the officer, who had charge of the brothers, for six years, through a severe sickness...
      2. age, years old (+plural genitive)
        • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Passion of St. Julian and his Wife Basilissa"
          Þa wolde his fæder and his frynd ealle þæt he wifian sceolde þa ða he eahtetyne gæra wæs...
          Then his father desired, and all his friends likewise, that he should marry, when he was eighteen years old.
      3. (good) harvest
      4. the runic character ᛄ (/j/)

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      Strong a-stem:

      singular plural
      nominative ġēar ġēar
      accusative ġēar ġēar
      genitive ġēares ġēara
      dative ġēare ġēarum

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      Portuguese

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      Etymology

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      From an Old Galician-Portuguese *gear (compare geo), from Latin gelāre. Doublet of the borrowing gelar. Compare also Galician xear.

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      • Hyphenation: ge‧ar

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      gear (impersonal, third-person singular present geia, third-person singular preterite geou, past participle geado)

      1. (impersonal) to frost (weather)

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          Conjugation of gear (impersonal; e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
      Singular Plural
      First-person
      (eu)       		Second-person
      (tu)       		Third-person
      (ele / ela / você)       		First-person
      (nós)       		Second-person
      (vós)       		Third-person
      (eles / elas / vocês)
      Infinitive
      Impersonal gear
      Personal — — gear — — —
      Gerund
      geando
      Past participle
      Masculine geado —
      Feminine — —
      Indicative
      Present — — geia — — —
      Imperfect — — geava — — —
      Preterite — — geou — — —
      Pluperfect — — geara — — —
      Future — — geará — — —
      Conditional — — gearia — — —
      Subjunctive
      Present — — geie — — —
      Imperfect — — geasse — — —
      Future — — gear — — —
      Imperative
      Affirmative — — — — —
      Negative (não) — — — — —
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      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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      gear

      1. together

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      • “gear (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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