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say it: gir
gear is a noun and verb meaning "a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion". It is pronounced /ˈɡɪɹ/ — gir. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
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 mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
set the level or character of
“She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gear come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.