reverse gear

Questions about reverse gear

What is another word for reverse gear?

It depends which reverse gear you mean. In the sense “the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed”, the synonyms are reverse. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of reverse gear?

WordNet records no antonym for reverse gear. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for reverse gear come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of reverse gear

• Full entry for reverse gearAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for reverse gearWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.