Bevel gear () A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet. |
Gear (n.) Clothing |
Gear (n.) Goods |
Gear (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear |
Gear (n.) The harness of horses or cattle |
Gear (n.) Warlike accouterments. |
Gear (n.) Manner |
Gear (n.) Business matters |
Gear (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel |
Gear (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function |
Gear (n.) Engagement of parts with each other |
Gear (n.) See 1st Jeer (b). |
Gear (n.) Anything worthless |
Gear (v. t.) To dress |
Gear (v. t.) To provide with gearing. |
Gear (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear. |
Head gear (n.) Alt. of Headgear |
Tray-trip (n.) An old game played with dice. |
Trip (n. i.) To move with light, quick steps |
Trip (n. i.) To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion |
Trip (n. i.) To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance |
Trip (n. i.) Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep |
Trip (v. t.) To cause to stumble, or take a false step |
Trip (v. t.) Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support |
Trip (v. t.) To detect in a misstep |
Trip (v. t.) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. |
Trip (v. t.) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it. |
Trip (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent. |
Trip (n.) A quick, light step |
Trip (n.) A brief or rapid journey |
Trip (n.) A false step |
Trip (n.) A small piece |
Trip (n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing. |
Trip (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward. |
Trip (n.) A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. |
Trip (n.) A troop of men |
Trip (n.) A flock of widgeons. |
Trip hammer () A tilt hammer. |
Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc. |
trip trip-up stumble misstep | an unintentional but embarrassing blunder, he recited the whole poem without a single trip, he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later, confusion caused his unfortunate misstep |
trip | a light or nimble tread, he heard the trip of women's feet overhead |
trip | a journey for some purpose (usually including the return), he took a trip to the shopping center |
round trip | a trip to some place and back again |
scouting trip | an expedition undertaken to gain information |
excursion jaunt outing junket pleasure trip expedition sashay | a journey taken for pleasure, many summer excursions to the shore, it was merely a pleasure trip, after cautious sashays into the field |
field trip | a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination |
ocean trip voyage | an act of traveling by water |
self-aggrandizement self-aggrandisement ego trip | an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance |
power trip | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people |
self-gratification head trip | the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure |
bevel gear pinion and crown wheel pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
chafing gear | covering (usually rope or canvas) of a line or spar to protect it from friction |
differential gear differential | a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds, used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves |
epicyclic train epicyclic gear train | a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis |
first gear first low gear low | the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle, used to start a car moving |
fishing gear tackle fishing tackle fishing rig rig | gear used in fishing |
foul-weather gear | protective garment that is intended to keep the wearer dry and warm in bad weather |
Francis turbine | a type of hydroelectric turbine |
gas turbine | turbine that converts the chemical energy of a liquid fuel into mechanical energy by internal combustion, gaseous products of the fuel (which is burned in compressed air) are expanded through a turbine |
gas-turbine ship | a ship powered by a gas turbine |
gear gear wheel geared wheel cogwheel | a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion |
gear paraphernalia appurtenance | equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. |
gear gear mechanism | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) |
gearbox gear box gear case | the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed |
gearing gear geartrain power train train | 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 |
gearshift gearstick shifter gear lever | a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears, in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever |
high gear high | a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed |
hydroelectric turbine | turbine consisting of a large and efficient version of a water wheel used to drive an electric generator |
impulse turbine | a turbine that is driven by jets direct against the blades |
landing gear | an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground |
planetary gear epicyclic gear planet wheel planet gear | an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train |
reaction turbine | a turbine with blades arranged to develop torque from gradual decrease of steam pressure from inlet to exhaust |
reduction gear | gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speed |
reverse reverse gear | the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed |
second gear second | the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle, he had to shift down into second to make the hill |
spur gear spur wheel | gear wheels that mesh in the same plane |
stable gear saddlery tack | gear for a horse |
steam turbine | turbine in which steam strikes blades and makes them turn |
steering gear | a gear that couples the steering wheel to the steering linkage of a motor vehicle |
sun gear | the central gear in an epicyclic train |
third gear third | the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle, you shouldn't try to start in third gear |
trip line | a light rope used in lumbering to free a dog hook from a log at a distance |
tripper trip | a catch mechanism that acts as a switch, the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water |
trip wire | a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over |
turbine | rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate |
wind turbine | a turbine that is driven by the wind |
worm gear | gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel), changes the direction of the axis of rotary motion |
round-trip ticket return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
trip head trip | an exciting or stimulating experience |