Gears can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| gear - set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" | ||
Noun |
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| gear - a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | ||
| gear - a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) | ||
| gear - equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | ||
| gear - 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" |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | noun | Now my cars gears and brakes have never run so well... ever its like driving a new car. | |
| 2. | noun | When I speak to a Westerner, I have to shift mental gears, so to speak. | |
| 3. | noun | Tatsuo likes looking at aircraft landing gears. | |
| 4. | noun | Tom shifted gears. | |
| 5. | noun | Be careful or you'll strip the gears. | |
| 6. | noun | I don't oil their gears. | |
| 7. | noun | Never shift gears when you're crossing railroad tracks, as it could cause your car to stall straddling the tracks. | |
| 8. | noun | You may need hex keys to adjust the gears on your bike. | |
| 9. | noun | The gears had worn down over time. | |
| 10. | noun | I shifted gears. | |
| 11. | noun | You must engage low gears when you drive as these mountain roads are very uneven. | |
| 12. | noun | Ease up! You're grinding the gears. | |
| 13. | noun | Change gears. | |
| 14. | noun | Sami switched gears. | |
| 15. | noun | When the gears of a mill are ruined, what would its wheels be for? | |
| 16. | verb | We had to gear our lives to the new circumstances. | |
| 17. | verb | We had to gear our lives to the new circumstances. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| Now my cars gears and brakes have never run so well... ever its like driving a new car. |
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| When I speak to a Westerner, I have to shift mental gears, so to speak. | |
| Tatsuo likes looking at aircraft landing gears. | |
| Tom shifted gears. | |
| Be careful or you'll strip the gears. | |
| I don't oil their gears. | |
| Never shift gears when you're crossing railroad tracks, as it could cause your car to stall straddling the tracks. | |
| You may need hex keys to adjust the gears on your bike. | |
| The gears had worn down over time. | |
| I shifted gears. | |
| You must engage low gears when you drive as these mountain roads are very uneven. | |
| Ease up! You're grinding the gears. | |
| Change gears. | |
| Sami switched gears. | |
| When the gears of a mill are ruined, what would its wheels be for? | |
| verb | |
| We had to gear our lives to the new circumstances. | |
| We had to gear our lives to the new circumstances. | |