A blandly written, barely acted sitcom about high schoolers but geared toward adolescents?
The total is often geared to years served – for example, 14 days after five years.
If American life is geared to profit, Brazilian life is geared to goals.
Politics is not geared toward long-term thinking—far from it—but that is what complicated tech projects require.
geared toward both novices and up-and-coming competitors, classes include Sexy Pole Dance Basics or Pole Dance Workout Advanced.
I have it geared to a small motor, and it's been running steadily for some time.
It will be seen that the water-pump E is geared to the engine.
This, like the water-pump, is geared to the engine and driven by it.
Everything must be geared and geared at once to the Germans' being right.
The household was geared to the "bog," as they called the biography.
c.1200, "fighting equipment," probably from Old Norse gervi "apparel," related to gerr "ready," and gerva "make ready," from Proto-Germanic *garwin- (cf. Old English gearwe "clothing, equipment, ornament;" Old High German garawi "clothing, dress," garawen "to make ready;" German gerben "to tan"). Meaning "toothed wheel in machinery" first attested 1520s. Slang for "male sex organs" from 1670s. British adjective slang sense of "stylish, excellent" first recorded 1951, from earlier that's the gear, expression of approval, 1925.
c.1200, "to equip oneself for fighting; dress," probably from gear (n.). Related: Geared; gearing.
adjective
adjective
Excellent; wonderful; superb: The opposite of ''gear'' is ''grotty''
Related Terms
in high gear, shift into high gear
[1950s+ British; fr the WWI British Army phrase that's the gear, ''that's right'']
