gear

/giə/

Thân thiện

The hiker packed his gear into a large backpack before the trip.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • Equipment or apparatus: A set of tools, devices, or items needed for a specific activity or purpose.
   • A mechanical component: A mechanism, often involving toothed wheels, designed to transmit or change motion, force, or speed in a machine. This includes the specific settings in a vehicle's transmission (e.g., first gear).
   • Personal belongings: Informal term for one's possessions or clothing.

2. Verb:

   • To adjust or adapt: To prepare, organize, or tailor something to make it suitable for a particular purpose, person, or situation.
   • To equip with gears: To connect or fit with a mechanical gear system.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • We packed our camping gear for the weekend trip. (We packed our camping equipment.)
  • The car's gear was stuck, so we couldn't move. (The car's transmission mechanism was stuck.)
  • He shifted into a lower gear to climb the hill. (He changed the vehicle's transmission setting.)
  • She loves buying new hiking gear. (She loves buying new hiking equipment/clothing.)

• Verb:

  • The company geared its marketing campaign toward young adults. (The company tailored its campaign.)
  • The factory is geared for high-volume production. (The factory is organized and equipped for it.)
  • The lessons are geared to beginners. (The lessons are adapted for beginners.)

Advanced Usage

• "To be in gear": (Of a vehicle) to have the gears engaged and be ready to move; (figuratively) to be functioning effectively.

  • Make sure the car is in gear before you release the clutch.
  • After the holiday, it took me a while to get back in gear at work.

• "To be out of gear": (Of a vehicle) to have the gears disengaged; (figuratively) to not be functioning properly or smoothly.

  • The machine is out of gear and won't operate.
  • My thoughts feel completely out of gear today.

Variants and Related Words

• Gearing (n): The set or arrangement of gears in a machine; the process of adapting one thing to another.
• Geared (adj): Designed or adjusted for a specific purpose (e.g., ).
• Gearbox (n): A metal case containing the gears of a vehicle or machine.
• Gearshift (n): The lever used to change gears in a vehicle.

Synonyms

• Noun (for equipment): Equipment, apparatus, kit, tackle, paraphernalia.
• Noun (for mechanism): Cogwheel, sprocket, mechanism, works.
• Verb: Adapt, adjust, tailor, tune, prepare, equip.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Gear up (for/to): To prepare intensively for something.
  • The team is gearing up for the championship finals.
• Gear down: To reduce intensity, effort, or speed.
  • The company had to gear down production due to lower demand.

Related Idioms

• "Shift gears": To change one's approach, focus, or mode of operation.
  • After discussing the budget, we need to shift gears and talk about marketing.
• "Top gear": The highest level of performance, activity, or efficiency.
  • The project is now in top gear and should be finished soon.

Học thuật

Noun

1. equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
2. a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
3. 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
4. a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

Verb

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

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