Synonym: equip, furnish, outfit, rig, wheel. Similar words: year after year, changeable, unchangeable, year, tear, wear, rear, hear. Meaning: [gɪr /gɪə] n. 1. a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion 2. wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed 3. a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) 4. equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.. v. set the level or character of.
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181. As ever: the gear change and clutch are heavy; the throttle response terrific.
182. The front porch which has various door openings gives excellent room for cooking and storing the rest of your gear.
183. The equipment manufactured and distributed by Mr Bowitz is far more complex than gear seized in previous investigations, the agencies said.
184. Grinning and waving, he puts the car into gear and steps on the accelerator.
185. I have an aggravating whine coming from my gearbox every time I decelerate in fourth gear.
186. In effect I reckon it will only take a slight upward change of gear and performances to become something special.
187. The Edinburgh side needed to move up a gear to jolt Celtic out of their rhythm.
188. They wore fatigues or business suits, and several came in full combat, gear.
189. Voice over For a world class decathlete it's something of a gear change.
190. The flashy gear turned you, however unwillingly, into a sort of pied piper of Western materialism.
191. With a 34-0 lead, top gear was no longer required.
192. The Dowty group will provide twenty five million pounds worth of fuel systems and landing gear for the Tornado.
193. While the sun dried our gear, Fields called us together for a briefing.
194. There was no fish ing gear nor any big guns, just a long, low, uncluttered deck.
195. Fishing gear was thrown off the deck and two of the crew were pitched violently backwards into the hold.
196. Only poor artisans, likewise, carried all their gear on their backs and wandered through towns and countryside looking for work.
197. During his speech police in riot gear watched over a boisterous crowd.
198. He awoke, forgetting he had left his car in gear, and switched on the engine.
199. Then a group of paras in full combat gear and blackened faces began firing at us.
199. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
200. I was never conscious that my attire was odd until I had my first normal boy's gear.
201. Trent rode in first gear, headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed.
202. Theft from truck: A gear box was stolen from a breakdown truck in Anchorage Lane, Northallerton.
203. The machinery in the walls whistles, sighs, drops into a lower gear.
204. In that wrong gear, he pressed the accelerator, ran over Harvey and broke both his legs.
205. The drive is transmitted into the adjacent mill building which houses two complete sets of grinding gear and allied crushers, etc.
206. Murdock's sun and planet gear to obtain rotary motion from Watt's beam engines.
207. A veteran of four deployments, Shuart listed such items as exercise gear and extra writing paper and envelopes.
208. A National Book Award nomination did nothing to kick the book into a higher gear.
209. There were boxes in the corner containing brand new gear still wrapped in stiff greaseproof paper and not yet assembled for use.
210. Legal troubles are piling up for President and Mrs Clinton just as his campaign for re-election is shifting into full gear.