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Another word for gear

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Noun

  1. Things needed for a task, journey, or other purpose

    See also:

    means

Verb

  1. To supply what is needed for some activity or purpose

    See also:

    give

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Another word for gear

Noun

  1. Equipment

    See also:

    equipment

  2. A geared wheel

  3. Clothes or other personal belongings

    See also:

    property

    clothes

    baggage

Verb

  1. To prepare

    See also:

    provide

    prepare

  2. To regulate

    See also:

    regulate

    adjust

Idioms:

    high gear

    2. in gear

    3. low-gear

    4. out of gear

    5. shift-gears

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • I guess your gear is back in your car.

  • I'll just leave most of my ice climbing gear in the car.

  • He stu­diously perused the biking catalogs for the additional gear he would need for the trek and crossed his fingers he'd chosen cor­rectly.

  • The collection was made up of Shipton's newly purchased, barely used, ice climbing gear, ropes, ice axes, pitons and various garments.

  • The gate guards were doubled, armed and wearing tactical gear, the perimeter lit by intense floodlights.

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