English Dictionary

gear

/ɡɪə(ɹ)/

noun

(uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. / Clothing; garments. / (obsolete) Goods; property; household items.

I need to buy some new gear for my camping trip.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.

意味（2）

Clothing; garments.

Aray thy selfe in her most gorgeous geare

意味（3）

(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.

Wo was his coke , but if his sauce were / Poinant and sharpe , and redy all his gere

意味（4）

(countable) A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.

意味（5）

(countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.

意味（6）

(countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.

意味（7）

(aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.

gear-up landing

意味（8）

(uncountable, slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.

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.

意味（9）

(uncountable, archaic) Stuff.

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.

意味（10）

(obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.

goe they both together to their geare.

意味（11）

(obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.

That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.