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. |
Concho-spiral (n.) A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. |
Cone pulley () A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters |
Continuously (adv.) In a continuous maner |
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 |
Gearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gear |
Gear (v. t.) To dress |
Gear (v. t.) To provide with gearing. |
Gear (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear. |
Gearing (n.) Harness. |
Gearing (n.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively |
Head gear (n.) Alt. of Headgear |
Hooke's gearing () Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle. |
Machinery (n.) Machines, in general, or collectively. |
Machinery (n.) The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument |
Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe |
Machinery (n.) The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained |
Mechanism (n.) The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine |
Mechanism (n.) Mechanical operation or action. |
Mechanism (n.) An ideal machine |
Pulley (v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. |
Pulley (b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley. |
Sand (n.) Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust |
Sand (n.) A single particle of such stone. |
Sand (n.) The sand in the hourglass |
Sand (n.) Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa |
Sand (n.) Courage |
Sand (v. t.) To sprinkle or cover with sand. |
Sand (v. t.) To drive upon the sand. |
Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud. |
Sand (v. t.) To mix with sand for purposes of fraud |
Sand-blind (a.) Having defective sight |
Skew (adv.) Awry |
Skew (a.) Turned or twisted to one side |
Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place. |
Skew (v. i.) To walk obliquely |
Skew (v. i.) To start aside |
Skew (v. i.) To look obliquely |
Skew (adv.) To shape or form in an oblique way |
whole unit | an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity, how big is that part compared to the whole?, the team is a unit |
mechanism mechanics | the technical aspects of doing something, a mechanism of social control, mechanisms of communication, the mechanics of prose style |
transmission transmittal transmitting | the act of sending a message, causing a message to be transmitted |
spiral | flying downward in a helical path with a large radius |
escape mechanism | a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities |
sand tiger sand shark Carcharias taurus Odontaspis taurus | shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic, sometimes dangerous to swimmers |
bank martin bank swallow sand martin Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
side-blotched lizard sand lizard Uta stansburiana | one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States |
sand lizard Lacerta agilis | a common and widely distributed lizard of Europe and central Asia |
hognose snake puff adder sand viper | harmless North American snake with upturned nose, may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed |
sand snake | small North American burrowing snake |
banded sand snake Chilomeniscus cinctus | a sand snake of southwestern United States, lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims', banding resembles that of coral snakes |
horned viper cerastes sand viper horned asp Cerastes cornutus | highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye |
sandgrouse sand grouse | pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young |
beach flea sand hopper sandhopper sand flea | small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas, common on ocean beaches |
sand cat | a desert wildcat |
sand fly sandfly Phlebotomus papatasii | any of various small dipterous flies, bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis |
sand cricket Jerusalem cricket Stenopelmatus fuscus | large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States |
sand dollar | flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms |
sand rat Meriones longifrons | southern European gerbil |
sand rat | small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas |
hog badger hog-nosed badger sand badger Arctonyx collaris | southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig |
sand stargazer | small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head, they burrow in sand to await prey |
sand lance sand launce sand eel launce | very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches |
sand dab | small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America |
sand sole Psettichthys melanostichus | a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America |
action action mechanism | the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism, the piano had a very stiff action |
automatic transmission automatic drive | a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car |
bevel gear pinion and crown wheel pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
booster booster rocket booster unit takeoff booster takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
bunker sand trap trap | a hazard on a golf course |
Bunker Buster Guided Bomb Unit- GBU- | a , pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding, used to penetrate hardened underground facilities |
cable line transmission line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
central processing unit CPU C.P.U. central processor processor mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
chafing gear | covering (usually rope or canvas) of a line or spar to protect it from friction |
coil spiral volute whorl helix | a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops, a coil of rope |
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 |
fiber-optic transmission system fibre-optic transmission system FOTS | a communication system using fiber optic cables |
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 |
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 |
gunlock firing mechanism | the action that ignites the charge in a firearm |
high gear high | a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed |