Crossword clues for gearing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gearing \Gear"ing\, n.
Harness.
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(Mach.) 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 a locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
Frictional gearing. See under Frictional.
Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel.
Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.
Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Geared (g[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gearing.]
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
(Mach.) To provide with gearing.
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To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.
Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.
Wiktionary
n. The ratio of a system of gears. vb. (present participle of gear English)
WordNet
n. 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" [syn: gears, geartrain, power train, train]
Wikipedia
Gearing may refer to: __NOTOC__
Usage examples of "gearing".
Down below the transmission gearing gets out of order, and this prevents the mechanician from sending the trap up again.
Lo Manto said, moving slowly toward the assault from above, gearing up for his dash through the streets of the East Bronx.
In the early stages of the Deathwatch, there was a definite high in watching the Congress reluctantly gearing up for a titanic battle with Richard Nixon and his private army of fixers who had taken over the whole executive branch of the government by the time he sailed triumphantly into his second term.
The base of the farther gunhouse was stamped down as if drop-forged over the gearing below.
The kites swing over Union Square and come back towards Washington Square, gearing up to begin the race when they cross Washington Square.
Most of the time had been devoted to gearing up their land and air forces for the anticipated strike on Panama.
Speed control and gearing was going to be tricky, so he approached it mechanically with a v-belt drive.
This was the cold that Bulgarians were gearing up for, as they faced the economic aftershocks of the Gulf crisis—which had begun the previous August when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait—and the collapse of Communism.
Genie herself had overcome many faults in a forty-year, twenty-step program of her own design, and was thinking about gearing up for another pass soon, to clear up the leftovers and start in on a new set of faults.
The two remaining International Sanctions Enforcement Teams and the ISEG headquarters were gearing up for the move to Djibouti aboard the MD-80.
This prognosis held for about 72 hours, which was time enough for almost everybody in Washington to start gearing down for an endless summer -- a humid nightmare of booze, sweat and tension, of debate in the House, delay in the courts and finally a trial in the Senate that might drag on until Christmas.
To carry out his idea, Clement invented his screw-engine lathe, with gearing, mandrill, and sliding-table wheel-work, by means of which he first cut the inside screw-tools from the left-handed hobs—.
They were loaded for bear, Gearing saw, lots of personal weapons evident here and others loaded into the cargo area below.
It was four-thirty in the afternoon and everyone was gearing up for the news at seven.
Some time afterwards, caught in the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthelemy was hanged.