gearing Definition

gear
noun

1. A toothed wheel or disc that engages with another wheel or disc having a different number of teeth, and turns it, so transmitting motion from one rotating shaft to another.

Thesaurus: cog, pinion, spur wheel, sprocket, rag wheel, lantern wheel.
Form: gearwheel (also)
2. The specific combination of such wheels or discs that is being used.

Example: second gear
Example: low gear
Example: to change gear
3. colloq
The equipment or tools needed for a particular job, sport, etc.
Thesaurus: equipment, material, tackle, accessories, trappings, accoutrements, instruments, machinery, rigging, apparatus.
4. aeronautics.
Landing gear.
5. colloq
Personal belongings.
6. colloq
Clothes, especially young people's current fashion.
7. slang
Drugs.

verb

geared, gearing
1. To supply something with, or connect it by, gears.

Idiom: in gear

Said especially of a motor vehicle: with a gear selected.

Idiom: out of gear

Said of a motor vehicle: with no gear selected.

Not working properly.

Etymology: 13c as gere in obsolete sense ‘arms' or ‘equipment': from Norse gervi.

Phrasal Verb: gear something to or towards something else

To adapt or design it to suit (a particular need).

Phrasal Verb: gear oneself up

To become or make oneself ready or prepared.

Phrasal Verb: gear something up

To raise the gearing of (a company).

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gearing
noun

1. A set of gearwheels as a means of transmission of motion.
2. The arrangement of gears on a particular machine or device.
3a. finance.
The ratio of a company's ordinary shares to shares with fixed interest;
3b. finance.
The ratio of a company's equity to its debts.