gear

Noun

• equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

• a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)

• 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
    

• a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

Verb

• set the level or character of
  • She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  paraphernalia , appurtenance , gear mechanism , gearing , geartrain , power train , train , gear wheel , geared wheel , cogwheel , pitch