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Rotating circular machine part with teeth that mesh with another toothed part
A gear or gearwheel, also called a toothed wheel, is a rotating machine part typically used to transmit rotational motion or torque by means of a series
Gear
Topics referred to by the same term
up gear in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A gear is a toothed wheel designed to transmit torque to another gear or toothed component. Gear or gears may
Gear_(disambiguation)
Video game franchise
Metal Gear (Japanese: METAL GEAR(メタルギア), Hepburn: Metaru Gia) is a Japanese franchise of action-adventure stealth games created by Hideo Kojima. Developed
Metal_Gear
Topics referred to by the same term
top gear in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Top Gear may refer to: "Top gear", the highest gear available in a vehicle's manual transmission Top Gear (1977
Top_Gear
British motoring TV show (2002–2022)
Top Gear is a British motoring-themed magazine television programme. It is a revival of the 1977–2001 show of the same name for the BBC, devised by Jeremy
Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)
Handheld game console by Sega
The Game Gear is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sega. It was released in Japan on October 6, 1990, in North America and Europe in April
Game_Gear
The Metal Gear franchise, created by Hideo Kojima and featuring character and mecha designs by Yoji Shinkawa, features a large cast of characters, several
Characters of the Metal Gear series
Characters_of_the_Metal_Gear_series
1998 video game
Metal Gear Solid is a 1998 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation. Directed, produced, and written by Hideo
Metal_Gear_Solid_(video_game)
Three-shaft planetary gearset
epicyclic gear train (also known as a planetary gearset) is a gear reduction assembly consisting of two gears mounted so that the center of one gear (the "planet")
Epicyclic_gearing
Fictional weapon
Metal Gears (Japanese: メタルギア, Hepburn: Metaru Gia) are the mecha in the Metal Gear series. In the series, a Metal Gear is a bipedal, nuclear weapons-equipped
Metal_Gear_(mecha)
Auxiliary engine to slowly rotate big engines
jacking gear (also known as a turning gear or barring gear) is a device placed on the main shaft of an engine or the rotor of a turbine. The jacking gear rotates
Jacking_gear
Mechanical transmission using multiple gears
gear train or gear set is a machine element of a mechanical system formed by mounting two or more gears on a frame such that the teeth of the gears engage
Gear_train
Metal Gear video game compilation
franchise: Metal Gear (1987), Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990), Metal Gear Solid (1998), Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001), Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection
Metal_Gear_Solid:_Master_Collection
Undercarriage of aircraft or spacecraft
Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for engaging the surface — typically land, but may also be the surface of a
Landing_gear
Drivetrain transmitting propulsion power
invented by Louis Renault (who founded Renault) which uses a gear set—two or more gears working together—to change the speed, direction of rotation, or
Transmission (mechanical device)
Transmission_(mechanical_device)
Motor vehicle transmission
vehicle transmission system where gear changes require the driver to manually select the gears by operating a gear stick and clutch (which is usually
Manual_transmission
Series of fighting video games
Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998
Guilty_Gear
1987 video game
Metal Gear is a 1987 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the MSX2. Originally released in Japan and parts of Europe in
Metal_Gear_(video_game)
Lever used for shifting gears manually
A gear stick (rarely spelled gearstick), gear lever (both UK English), gearshift or shifter (both US English), more formally known as a transmission lever
Gear_stick
2001 video game
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is a 2001 action-adventure stealth game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and published by Konami for
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal_Gear_Solid_2:_Sons_of_Liberty
Matching of warplane's gun and propeller
A synchronization gear (also known as a gun synchronizer or interrupter gear) was a device enabling a single-engine tractor-configuration aircraft to fire
Synchronization_gear
Topics referred to by the same term
5th Gear may refer to: Fifth Gear, a British television show formerly known as "5th Gear" 5th Gear (album), an album by Brad Paisley 5th Gear (video game)
5th_Gear
Gear with mirrored helical teeth
herringbone gear, a specific type of double helical gear, is a side-to-side, rather than face-to-face, combination of two helical gears of opposite hands
Herringbone_gear
Vietnamese video game developer
.Gears (DotGears Company Limited) is a Vietnamese video game developer based in Hanoi that specialises in hypercasual mobile games. The company was founded
.Gears
American shoe company based in California
LA Gear (or L.A. Gear) is an American shoe company based in Los Angeles. Founded in 1983, it is part of Frasers Group brands. LA Gear was started by Robert
LA_Gear
2013 video game
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by PlatinumGames and published by Konami. It was released for the PlayStation
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Metal_Gear_Rising:_Revengeance
Japanese manga series
Air Gear (Japanese: エア・ギア, Hepburn: Ea Gia) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Oh! great, serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine
Air_Gear
Top Gear is a British television series that focuses on various motor vehicles, primarily cars, in which its hosts conduct reviews on new models and vintage
List of Top Gear (2002 TV series) episodes
List_of_Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)_episodes
Topics referred to by the same term
Metal Gear is a video game franchise created by Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear may also refer to: A gear, a rotating machine part Metal Gear (mecha), bipedal
Metal_Gear_(disambiguation)
2025 video game
Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a 2025 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami. It is a remake of the 2004 game Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
Metal_Gear_Solid_Delta:_Snake_Eater
Device for changing gear ratio on bikes
A hub gear, internal-gear hub, internally geared hub or just gear hub is a gear ratio changing system commonly used on bicycles that is implemented with
Hub_gear
2015 video game
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a 2015 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami. Directed, written, and produced by Hideo
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Metal_Gear_Solid_V:_The_Phantom_Pain
American television sitcom
Shifting Gears is an American television sitcom created by Julie Thacker Scully and Mike Scully for ABC through 20th Television. The series stars Tim
Shifting_Gears_(TV_series)
Bicycle that has a drivetrain with no freewheel mechanism
A fixed-gear bicycle or fixie is a bicycle that has a drivetrain with no freewheel mechanism, meaning the pedals always spin together with the rear wheel
Fixed-gear_bicycle
Third-person shooter video game series
Gears of War (also referred to as Gears) is a media franchise centered on a series of video games created by Epic Games, developed and managed by The
Gears_of_War
Gear with teeth whose profile is an involute of a circle
The involute gear profile is the most commonly used system for gearing today, with cycloid gearing still used for some specialties such as clocks. In
Involute_gear
2004 video game
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a 2004 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. It was released in late
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal_Gear_Solid_3:_Snake_Eater
Cone- or frustum-shaped gears for shafts whose axes intersect
Bevel gears are gears where the axes of the two shafts intersect and the tooth-bearing faces of the gears themselves are conically shaped. Bevel gears are
Bevel_gear
Toothed gear based on epicycloids and hypocycloids
cycloidal gear is a toothed gear with a cycloidal profile. Such gears are used in mechanical clocks and watches, rather than the involute gear form used
Cycloid_gear
Fictional character from the Metal Gear series
also known as Naked Snake or simply Snake, is a character in Konami's Metal Gear, an action-adventure stealth game series created by Hideo Kojima. A major
Big_Boss_(Metal_Gear)
Manufacture of machine parts
Gears can be manufactured by a variety of processes, including casting, forging, extrusion, powder metallurgy, and blanking, shaping, grinding, and Computer
Gear_manufacturing
Ancient Greek analogue astronomical computer
Athens, it was noticed by Greek politician Spyridon Stais as containing a gear, prompting the first study of the fragment by his cousin, Valerios Stais
Antikythera_mechanism
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
director, producer, and internet personality. He is best known for the Metal Gear franchise, which remains his most famous and acclaimed work, as well as Death
Hideo_Kojima
Segment of the Top Gear television programme
Top Gear challenges is a segment of the Top Gear television programme where the presenters are tasked by the producers, or each other, to prove or accomplish
Top_Gear_challenges
Mechanical device
spur gear, where a gear may rotate freely until in contact with the next gear, the magnetic gear has a springy backlash. As a result, magnetic gears are
Magnetic_gear
Type of pump which uses the meshing of gears to push fluids
A gear pump uses the meshing of gears to pump fluid by displacement. They are one of the most common types of pumps for hydraulic fluid power applications
Gear_pump
Character in Metal Gear
as the main player character of the 2001 game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. In Metal Gear Solid 2, he appears to be a member of the U.S. special
Raiden_(Metal_Gear)
Mechanical part
A spiral bevel gear is a bevel gear with helical teeth. The main application of this is in a vehicle differential, where the direction of drive from the
Spiral_bevel_gear
2010 video game
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is a 2010 stealth game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami. It is the seventh Metal Gear game written
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metal_Gear_Solid:_Peace_Walker
Type of motor vehicle transmission
any input from the driver other than throttle position to change forward gears under normal driving conditions. The 1904 Sturtevant "horseless carriage
Automatic_transmission
English television presenter, journalist, author and farmer (born 1960)
best known for hosting the motoring television programmes Top Gear (1988–2000) and Top Gear (2002–2015) and The Grand Tour (2016–2024) alongside Richard
Jeremy_Clarkson
Measure of mechanical advantage in bicycle gears
Gear inches is one way of measuring the gear ratio(s) of a bicycle, so that different gears and different bicycles can be compared in a consistent manner
Gear_inches
Virtual reality headset by Samsung
The Samsung Gear VR is a virtual reality headset developed by Samsung Electronics, in collaboration with Oculus VR, and manufactured by Samsung. The headset
Samsung_Gear_VR
Cable used to rapidly decelerate an aircraft as it lands
An arresting gear, or arrestor gear, is a mechanical system used to rapidly decelerate an aircraft as it lands. Arresting gear on aircraft carriers is
Arresting_gear
Fictional character
appearing in Guilty Gear X and Guilty Gear XX as a playable character. They did not appear in any other Guilty Gear games until Guilty Gear Strive. They originally
Testament_(Guilty_Gear)
Television series
Fifth Gear is a British motoring television magazine series which has been broadcast since 2002. Originally shown on Channel 5 from 2002 to 2011 (and branded
Fifth_Gear
Gear shaping is a specific machining process for creating teeth on a gear using a reciprocating cutter. Gear shaping is a convenient and versatile method
Gear_shaping
2000 video game
Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, released in North America and Europe as Metal Gear Solid, is a 2000 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by
Metal_Gear:_Ghost_Babel
Aircraft undercarriage
Conventional landing gear, also known as tailwheel-type landing gear or taildragger, is a type of aircraft undercarriage (landing gear) consisting of two
Conventional_landing_gear
2021 video game
Guilty Gear Strive (stylized as GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-) is a 2021 fighting game developed and published by Arc System Works. It is the seventh mainline installment
Guilty_Gear_Strive
Gear whose teeth project at right angles
A crown gear (also known as a face gear or a contrate gear) is a gear which has teeth that project at right angles to the face of the wheel. In particular
Crown_gear
Set of applications and supporting libraries
The KDE Gear is a set of applications and supporting libraries that are developed by the KDE community, primarily used on Linux-based operating systems
KDE_Gear
Machine used to create teeth on gears
A gear shaper is a machine tool for cutting the teeth of internal or external gears, it is a specialised application of the more general shaper machine
Gear_shaper
Bicycle drivetrain aspect which relates cadence to wheel speed
there is only one gear and, therefore, the gear ratio is fixed, but most modern bicycles have multiple gears and thus multiple gear ratios. A shifting
Bicycle_gearing
English journalist, television presenter, and author (born 1969)
author. He is best known for co-hosting the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May. From 2016 to 2024
Richard_Hammond
Topics referred to by the same term
up Gearing or gearing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gearing may refer to: Gear ratio Mechanical advantage Gear train, an arrangement of gears Gearing
Gearing
Mechanical transmission system with flexing
Strain wave gearing (also known as harmonic gearing) is a type of mechanical gear system that uses a flexible spline with external teeth, which is deformed
Strain_wave_gearing
Line of wearable computing devices
Samsung Gear was a line of wearable computing devices produced by Samsung Electronics. The first device in the series, the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, was
Samsung_Gear
Simplest type of gear
Spur gears or straight-cut gears are the simplest type of gear. They consist of a cylinder or disk with teeth projecting radially. Viewing the gear at 90
Spur_gear
Smartwatch
Samsung Gear Sport is a smartwatch developed by Samsung Electronics. The Gear Sport was released at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked in 2017. "Smartwatches Gear". Archived
Samsung_Gear_Sport
American middle-distance runner
Krissy Gear (born July 20, 1999) is an American professional middle distance and World Championship steeplechase runner from Fort Myers, Florida. Gear placed
Krissy_Gear
English squash player (born 1998)
Grace Gear (born 2 July 1998 in Welwyn Garden City) is an English professional squash player. Gear reached a career high ranking of 40 in the world during
Grace_Gear
2008 video game
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a 2008 action-adventure stealth game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami for the PlayStation
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal_Gear_Solid_4:_Guns_of_the_Patriots
New Zealand video game developer company
Grinding Gear Games is a video game developer and the largest video game company in New Zealand. Founded in 2006, the Auckland company has produced two
Grinding_Gear_Games
Fictional character from the Metal Gear series
name David, is a character and one of the protagonists of Konami's Metal Gear series, created by Hideo Kojima. He is depicted as a former Green Beret and
Solid_Snake
Personal protective equipment used by firefighters
Bunker gear (also known as turnout gear, fire kit and incident gear[original research?]) is the personal protective equipment (PPE) used by firefighters
Bunker_gear
External audio processing electronics
Musical outboard equipment or outboard gear is used to process or alter a sound signal separately from functionality provided within a mixing console or
Outboard_gear
Landing gear extenders are devices used on conventional or tailwheel-equipped aircraft. They move the wheels forward of the landing gear leg by 2-3 inches
Landing_gear_extender
Internal combustion engine component
A starter ring gear is a part attached to an internal combustion engine that is part of the assembly which transfers the torque from the starter motor
Starter_ring_gear
1990 stealth action game
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is a 1990 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the MSX2. The second mainline installment in the
Metal_Gear_2:_Solid_Snake
Fictional character from Metal Gear series
is a fictional character from Konami's Metal Gear series who made her first appearance in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater as the anti-villainous secondary
The_Boss_(Metal_Gear)
A gear bearing is a type of rolling-element bearing similar to epicyclic gearing. Gear bearings consist of a number of smaller 'satellite' gears which
Gear_bearing
Aircraft undercarriage
Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage (i.e. landing gear) that is arranged in the fashion of a tricycle, with a single one/two-wheeled front
Tricycle_landing_gear
Inuit Canadian multidisciplinary artist
Glenn Gear (born 1970) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Gear's animations and installations have
Glenn_Gear
Process used to create a gear
Gear cutting is any machining process for creating a gear. The most common gear-cutting processes include hobbing, broaching, milling, grinding, and skiving
Gear_cutting
Mechanism for controlling steam flow in a reciprocating steam engine
The valve gear of a steam engine is the mechanism that operates the inlet and exhaust valves to admit steam into the cylinder and allow exhaust steam to
Valve_gear
American clothing store chain
City Gear was an American company that operates over 130 stores in the central region of the US. City Gear was founded in 1978 under the name Shelmar
City_Gear
Smartwatch
Samsung Gear S is a smartwatch designed and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It was announced on August 28, 2014, as the successor to the Samsung Gear 2 and
Samsung_Gear_S
Japanese fighting game developed by Arc System Works
Guilty Gear Xrd is a fighting video game sub-series by Arc System Works and part of the Guilty Gear series. Guilty Gear Xrd was developed using Unreal
Guilty_Gear_Xrd
All Elite Wrestling pay-per-view event
The 2025 Full Gear, also promoted as Full Gear presented by DC, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW)
Full_Gear_(2025)
Japanese metal band
Fate Gear (stylized as FATE GEAR) is a Japanese female heavy metal band from Tokyo, formed in 2015 by guitarist Mina. Five months after leaving Destrose
Fate_Gear
Tabletop role-playing game and video game
Heavy Gear is a mecha science fiction game universe published since 1994 by Canadian publisher Dream Pod 9. It includes a tabletop tactical wargame, a
Heavy_Gear
American writer and archaeologist
William Michael Gear, better known as W. Michael Gear, (born May 20, 1955) is an American writer and archaeologist. He is the author of North America's
W._Michael_Gear
British online television series
Top Gear: Extra Gear, known simply as Extra Gear, is a British online television series, broadcast by BBC Three, which is online only and is available
Extra_Gear
The British motoring-themed television programme Top Gear was often the focus of criticism. The criticism has ranged from minor viewer complaints to serious
Top_Gear_controversies
2018 video game
Metal Gear Survive is a 2018 survival game developed by Konami Digital Entertainment and published by Konami. The game was released for PlayStation 4,
Metal_Gear_Survive
English television presenter and journalist (born 1963)
alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, of the motoring programme Top Gear from 2003 until 2015 and the television series The Grand Tour for Amazon
James_May
2008 video game
Metal Gear Online, also known as Metal Gear Online 2, was a stealth third-person shooter video game for the PlayStation 3. Released in 2008, it was an
Metal_Gear_Online
Ways that gears can fail
Sources of gear failure are varied, and are often based on the rotational speed and the load applied to the gear. It is possible that more than one of
Gear_failure
American actor (born 1967)
Award and received four additional Emmy Award nominations. He co-hosted Top Gear from 2016 to 2019. From 2016 to 2020, he played patriarch Adam Burns in the
Matt_LeBlanc
GEAR
GEAR
Boy/Male
Irish
Means “â€brave with a spearâ€â€ or “â€spear carrier.â€â€ The name is associated with Gearoid Fitzgerald, the 3rd Earl of Desmond (1338-98) and leader of the most powerful Norman family in late medieval Ireland. It was believed he had magical powers and is reputed to protect the environment at Lough Gur, where he had a castle in County Limerick. In one story, when a local landowner planned to drain the lake or forbid local people access to it Gearoid made his horse bolt, fatally injuring the landowner. Some even say that he is sleeping at the bottom of Lough Gur, waiting to return to the land of the living.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Gear.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English gere ‘fit of passion’ (see Geary 3).German : possibly an altered spelling of Gier.
Male
Irish
Irish Gaelic form of French Gérald, GEARÓID means "spear ruler."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from a Germanic personal name beginning with the element gÄ“r, gÄr ‘spear’ (see Geary 2).Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gehring.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Geary 2.Irish : reduced form of McGary.Respelling of Swiss German Gehri or Gehry, variants of Gehr.
Surname or Lastname
Americanized form of German Gehr.English
Americanized form of German Gehr.English : perhaps a variant of Geary 3.Hungarian : from a reduced form of the personal name Gergely, Latin Gregorius (see Gregory).
Surname or Lastname
Southern French
Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived by an
oak tree or oak grove, from Occitan garric (masculine) ‘kermes
oak’ or garrique (feminine) ‘grove of kermes oaks’.English (Norfolk) : variant of Geary 2.A bearer with the secondary surname
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : from a pet form (with the suffix -ot) of the medieval personal name Herry, Harry (a variant of Henry).Scottish : habitational name from a place, as for example Heriot to the south of Edinburgh, named with Middle English heriot, which denoted a piece of land restored to the feudal lord on the death of its tenant. The Middle English word is from Old English heregeatu, a compound of here ‘army’ + geatu ‘equipment’, referring originally to military equipment that was restored to the lord on the death of a vassal.English : habitational name from Herriard in Hampshire, which may have been named as ‘army quarters’ (Old English here ‘army’ + geard ‘enclosure’), or possibly from the Celtic terms hyr ‘long’ + garth ‘ridge’.
Boy/Male
Irish
Means “â€brave with a spearâ€â€ or “â€spear carrier.â€â€ The name is associated with Gearoid Fitzgerald, the 3rd Earl of Desmond (1338-98) and leader of the most powerful Norman family in late medieval Ireland. It was believed he had magical powers and is reputed to protect the environment at Lough Gur, where he had a castle in County Limerick. In one story, when a local landowner planned to drain the lake or forbid local people access to it Gearoid made his horse bolt, fatally injuring the landowner. Some even say that he is sleeping at the bottom of Lough Gur, waiting to return to the land of the living.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a fisherman, Middle English fischer. The name has also been used in Ireland as a loose equivalent of Braden. As an American family name, this has absorbed cognates and names of similar meaning from many other European languages, including German Fischer, Dutch Visser, Hungarian Halász, Italian Pescatore, Polish Rybarz, etc.In a few cases, the English name may in fact be a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from the Old English term fisc-gear ‘fish weir’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a fisherman, Yiddish fisher, German Fischer.Irish : translation of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden.Mistranslation of French Poissant, meaning ‘powerful’, but understood as poisson ‘fish’ (see Poisson), and assimilated to the more frequent English name.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure of some kind, Middle English yard(e) (Old English geard; compare Garth).English : nickname from Middle English yard ‘rod’, ‘stick’ (Old English (Anglian) gerd), probably with reference to a rod or staff carried as a symbol of authority.English : from the same word as in 2, used to denote a measure of land. The surname probably denoted someone who held this quantity of land, and as it was quite a large amount (varying at different periods and in different places, but generally approximately 30 acres, a quarter of a hide), such a person would have been a reasonably prosperous farmer.
Boy/Male
Irish
Means “â€brave with a spearâ€â€ or “â€spear carrier.â€â€ The name is associated with Gearoid Fitzgerald, the 3rd Earl of Desmond (1338-98) and leader of the most powerful Norman family in late medieval Ireland. It was believed he had magical powers and is reputed to protect the environment at Lough Gur, where he had a castle in County Limerick. In one story, when a local landowner planned to drain the lake or forbid local people access to it Gearoid made his horse bolt, fatally injuring the landowner. Some even say that he is sleeping at the bottom of Lough Gur, waiting to return to the land of the living.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for an unpredictable, wayward person, from Middle English gerysshe ‘wild’, ‘changeable’. Compare Geary.Possibly an altered spelling of German Gerisch, a variant of Giersch.
Boy/Male
Irish
Means “â€brave with a spearâ€â€ or “â€spear carrier.â€â€ The name is associated with Gearoid Fitzgerald, the 3rd Earl of Desmond (1338-98) and leader of the most powerful Norman family in late medieval Ireland. It was believed he had magical powers and is reputed to protect the environment at Lough Gur, where he had a castle in County Limerick. In one story, when a local landowner planned to drain the lake or forbid local people access to it Gearoid made his horse bolt, fatally injuring the landowner. Some even say that he is sleeping at the bottom of Lough Gur, waiting to return to the land of the living.
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra
‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O’Gara). See also McGeary.English : from a personal name derived from Germanic
gÄ“r, gÄr ‘spear’, a short form of any of various
compound names with this as a first element (see, for example
Garrett).English : nickname for a wayward or capricious
person, from Middle English ge(a)ry ‘fickle’, ‘changeable’,
‘passionate’ (a derivative of gere ‘fit of passion’, apparently
a Scandinavian borrowing).Possibly an altered spelling of
German Gehring or Gehrig.Most present-day Irish bearers of the name Geary and its variants
and derivatives are descended from a single 10th-century ancestor, a
nephew of Eadhra, who founded the family
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Geary.Possibly an altered spelling of German Gehri, a variant of Gehr 1.
Boy/Male
Irish
Means “â€brave with a spearâ€â€ or “â€spear carrier.â€â€ The name is associated with Gearoid Fitzgerald, the 3rd Earl of Desmond (1338-98) and leader of the most powerful Norman family in late medieval Ireland. It was believed he had magical powers and is reputed to protect the environment at Lough Gur, where he had a castle in County Limerick. In one story, when a local landowner planned to drain the lake or forbid local people access to it Gearoid made his horse bolt, fatally injuring the landowner. Some even say that he is sleeping at the bottom of Lough Gur, waiting to return to the land of the living.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Geary 2.Scottish : reduced and altered form of McGarry.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Geary 3.North German : from a personal name derived from gÄ“r, gÄr ‘spear’ (see Geary 2).Dutch : reduced form of van den Geer, a topographic name from geer ‘headland’.
GEAR
GEAR
Girl/Female
American, British, English, Greek
A Flowering Vine; The Name of a Flowering Vine Used in Folk Medicine
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Elixir Attained through Tranquility
Boy/Male
British, English
Boisterous; High-spirited
Girl/Female
German
Noble
Girl/Female
English
and Kayla, meaning: keeper of the keys; pure.
Boy/Male
Australian, Christian, French, German, Shakespearean
Elf Ruler; High-born and Bearlike
Boy/Male
Hindu
Grand
Boy/Male
Slavic
Universal ruler.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Full of Righteousness
Surname or Lastname
English (Devon)
English (Devon) : unexplained.
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n.
A segment gear.
v. t.
To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; as, to unharness horses or oxen.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gear
v. t.
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
n.
An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
n.
A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
imp. & p. p.
of Gear
n.
A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.
n.
Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
v. t.
To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear.
v. t.
To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.
v. i.
To be in, or come into, gear.
n.
The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
n.
A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
v. t.
To provide with gearing.
n.
Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
n.
Dress; gear; ornaments.