gear
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪə(r)
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse gervi.
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia gear (countable and uncountable; plural gears)
- (uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
- (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.
- (countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
- (countable) A configuration of the transmission of an motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque
- (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."
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
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[edit] Translations
equipment of paraphernalia
a wheel with grooves
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a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears
motor car transmission
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[edit] Verb
gear (third-person singular simple present gears, present participle gearing, simple past and past participle geared)
- To fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
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- Spanish: engranar
[edit] Interjection
gear
- (mostly British (Scouse)) great or fantastic
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[edit] Manx
[edit] Alternative forms
[edit] Etymology
From Old Irish gér.
[edit] Adjective
gear
[edit] Old English
[edit] Alternative forms
[edit] Etymology
Proto-Germanic *jēran, from Proto-Indo-European *yōr-. Cognate with Old Frisian jēr, Old Saxon jār (Dutch jaar), Old High German jār (German Jahr), Old Norse ár (Danish/Norwegian/Swedish år, Icelandic/Faroese ár), Gothic 𐌾𐌴𐍂 (jer). The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek ὡρα ‘season’, Russian яра, Czech jaro, Lithuanian jore ‘springtime’.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /jæːɑr/, /jɑːr/
[edit] Noun
ġēar n. (nominative plural ġēar)
- year
- Ðis wæs feorþes geares his rices: this was in the fourth year of his reign. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
- the runic character ᛄ (/j/)
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- English: year
[edit] Portuguese
[edit] Etymology
Latin gelare
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [ʒɨˈaɾ]
[edit] Verb
gear (present participle geando)
- to frost (weather)
[edit] Conjugation
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb gear
Notes:
- This is an irregular defective verb of the -ar group.
- Verbs with this conjugation include: gear.
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele/ela/você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles/elas/vocês) |
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| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | gear | |||||
| Personal | - | - | gear | - | - | - |
| Present participle | ||||||
| geando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | geado | geados | ||||
| Feminine | geada | geadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | - | - | geia | - | - | - |
| Imperfect | - | - | geava | - | - | - |
| Preterite | - | - | geou | - | - | - |
| Pluperfect | - | - | geara | - | - | - |
| Future | - | - | geará | - | - | - |
| Conditional | - | - | gearia | - | - | - |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | - | - | geie | - | - | - |
| Imperfect | - | - | geasse | - | - | - |
| Future | - | - | gear | - | - | - |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Negative (não) | - | - | - | - | - | - |
[edit] West Frisian
[edit] Adverb
gear
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