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Definition: Gearing |
GearingNoun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gearing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | The debts of a company shown as a percentage of its equity plus loan capital ; the relationship between the amount of loan and preference capital on the one hand, and the nominal amount of ordinary capital on the other. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A mechanism which allows the transmission of energy; e. g. a transmission shafting, a belt drive, or a gearing. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A transmission consisting of several toothed elements(gears)which are in mesh with one another, i. e. in which one member is driven by another by contact between their teeth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GearingSynonyms: gears (n), geartrain (n), power train (n), train (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: drive-in (mechanical engineering). |
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 | In formation with destroyers and aircraft of Anti-submarine Task Group Bravo, in the Mediterranean Sea, 19 August 1961. All escorts are Gearing class DDEs. Planes overhead include ten S2F and two AD-5Ws. Two HSS-1 helicopters are flying just above the ships. Credit: NAVY. |  | Noses through scattered sea ice in March 1946, during her Arctic experimental cruise. Photographed looking forward from the carrier's island, with SB2C "Helldiver" and F4U "Corsair" planes parked on her flight deck. A "Gearing" class destroyer is steaming past in the background. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Reviews WAVES officers during a visit to the Naval Training Station, San Diego, California, in June 1943. He is seen here chatting informally with Ensign Margaret Campbell. Ensign Bertha Shoves is at right, and Ensign Mary Cave is in the photograph's center. The Training Station's Commanding Officer, Captain Henry C. Gearing, USN, is at left. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Telkom is gearing up to take on competition. (references) | |
Chongqing Machine Tool captures 60% of China's gearing machine market. (references) | ||
Large public sector companies like Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, and Indian Oil Corporation are gearing up for major expansion and modernization projects. (references) | ||
Economic History | Uzbekistan | The Uzbek telecommunications industry is gearing up for the new era. (references) |
Hong Kong | Of these, KCRC is moving rapidly with West Rail Phase I, and gearing up for extensions of its existing East Rail. (references) | |
Russia | Much work still lies ahead in gearing up the tax authorities, and the accounting profession to operate within the new legal structure. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Kathy Bates | The first time it was like you're gearing up for it. I know it's coming. I know it's coming and then I saw it and I thought oh, that's great you know. It looked good to me and I felt comfortable with it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Gearing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 68.33% of the time. "Gearing" is used about 180 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 68.33% | 123 | 28,925 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.67% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.22% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.78% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 180 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gearing" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gearing | Last name | 400 | 21,569 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Capital Gearing Trust Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "gearing": compensating gearing ♦ cycloidal gearing ♦ Differential gearing ♦ double helical gearing ♦ epicyclic gearing ♦ Frictional gearing ♦ Gearing chain ♦ Hooke's gearing ♦ hourglass worm gearing ♦ Intermittent gearing ♦ planetary gearing ♦ quick change gearing ♦ ratchet gearing ♦ skew bevel gearing ♦ skew gearing ♦ spiral gearing ♦ spur gearing ♦ toothed gearing ♦ wedge gearing ♦ worm gearing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gearing": gearing-up. | |
Ending with "gearing": over-gearing, reverse-gearing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "gearing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grup ingranazhesh, pajisje me ingranazh. (various references) | |
Arabic | التتريس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | зъбно предаване, зацепване (engagement, mesh). (various references) | |
Chinese | 连动. (various references) | |
Czech | pohon (drive, gear, propulsion, traction). (various references) | |
Danish | gear (gear), gældsrate (debt ratio, solvency ratio), gældsgrad (debt ratio, solvency ratio), transmissionssystem (drive, gear, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system), tandhjulsudveksling (gear, gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, wheelwork), soliditetsgrad (debt ratio, solvency ratio), reduktion (reduction), nedgearing (gearing down, low gearing, stepping down). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorschakeling (stepping down), terugschakelen (gearing down, low gearing, switch back), tandwieloverbrenging (cluster, counter gear, gear, gear drive, gear transmission, geared power, gears, gear-system, intermediate wheel, toothed gearing, wheelwork), solvabiliteitsratio (debt ratio, solvency ratio), solvabiliteitscoëfficiënt (debt ratio, solvency ratio), krachtoverbrenging (drive, gear, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system), debt ratio (debt ratio, solvency ratio). (various references) | |
Finnish | voimansiirtolaite (drive, gear, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system), voimansiirtojärjestelmä (drive, gear, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system), voimansiirto (transmission), velkaisuusaste (debt ratio, solvency ratio), velkaantumisaste (debt ratio, solvency ratio), vakavaraisuusaste (debt ratio, solvency ratio), pyörästö, pienennys (decrease, reduction), hidastusvaihde (stepping down), hammaspyörävoimansiirto (gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, wheelwork), hammaspyörävaihde (gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, wheelwork), hammaspyörävälitys (gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, wheelwork). (various references) | |
French | engrenage (gears). (various references) | |
German | getriebe (bustle, drive, gear, gear unit, gearbox, gearboxs, gears, hurly burly, mechanism, movement, transmission, works). (various references) | |
Greek | κατέβασμα ταχύτητας (gearing down, low gearing), Μεταδότης κίνησης, σύστημα τροχών (gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, train, wheelwork), σύστημα οδοντοτροχών (gear train, gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, train, train of gears, wheelwork), μηχανισμός μετάδοσης (drive, gear, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system, transmitter), μετάδοση οδοντοτροχών (gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, wheelwork), μείωση ταχύτητας (gearing down, low gearing, slow down), μείωση (abatement, decrease, decrement, depletion, derogation, deterioration, detraction, diminution, discount, mitigation, reduction, shrinkage, slackening, understatement), ποσοστό δανειοδότησης (solvency ratio), υποβιβασμός (downgrading, relegation), αναλογία φερεγγυότητας (debt ratio), αλληλοσύνδεση μηχανισμών, οδοντώσεις (gear marks, gear streaks, gear transmission, gears, gear-system, serration, serrations, toothed gearing, wheelwork), οδοντοτροχοί (gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, wheelwork), debit ratio (debt ratio, solvency ratio). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תשלובת (combination, dovetailing, gear, linkage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fogaskerék-áttétel (gears, train). (various references) | |
Italian | trasmissione ad ingranaggi (gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, wheelwork), trasmissione (broadcast, conveyance, transmission), ruotismo (train), riduzione di velocit (gearing down, low gearing), meccanismo di trasmissione (drive, gear, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system), ingranaggio (cog, gear, mechanism), indice di indebitamento (debt ratio, solvency ratio), coefficiente di solvibilit (debt ratio, solvency ratio). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 連動 (linkage), 伝動 (drive, transmission). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | で"どう (conduction, drive, electric, evangelism, missionary work, palace, palatial building, proselytizing, transmission), れ"どう (linkage). (various references) | |
Manx | geerys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earinggay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | transmissão (broadcast, communication, conduction, convection, devolution, propagation, sending, transfer, transference, transfusion, transmitting), engrenagem (gear, mesh). (various references) | |
Romanian | transmisiune (drive, transmission), transmisie (transmission), mecanism (action, contrivance, device, engine, gear, gimmick, machine, machinery, mechanism, motion, technique, work), angrenare, angrenaj (gear). (various references) | |
Russian | зубчатая передача (gear, train), зацепление (engagement, mesh). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zupčana transmisija. (various references) | |
Spanish | transmisión por engranajes (gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, wheelwork), mecanismo de transmisión (drive, gear, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system), desmultiplicación de velocidades (gearing down, low gearing), desmultiplicación (stepping down), de transmisión (drive, gear, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system). (various references) | |
Swedish | utväxlingseffekt (debt ratio, solvency ratio), utväxling (exchange, interchange), transmissionselement (drive, gear, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system), nedväxling (kick down, kickdown), kuggväxel (gear train, gear transmission, gears, gear-system, toothed gearing, train, train of gears, wheelwork), hävstångseffekt (debt ratio, solvency ratio), förhållande mellan skulder och eget kapital (debt ratio, solvency ratio). (various references) | |
Turkish | düz dişli düzeni (spur gearing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự truyền động bánh răng (gear). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gearing": gearings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gearing": dogearing, regearing. (additional references) | |
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"Gearing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gagarino, gairing, Gavarni, gearn, Gehring, Gerling, Gerong, gerrin, Gerrings, gerung, Ghering, Greatrigg, Guarani, Guarino, guarning, Guerino, guiring, ogering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gearing" (pronounced gi"ring) |
| 4 | -i" r i ng | appearing, adhering, bioengineering, cheering, clearing, disappearing, domineering, earring, electioneering, engineering, fearing, hearing, interfering, nearing, overhearing, pioneering, premiering, profiteering, racketeering, rearing, reengineering, rehearing, searing, shearing, smearing, sneering, Spearing, steering, veering, volunteering. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, childbearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, during, endearing, enduring, ensuring, expiring, exploring, firing, flaring, flooring, glaring, Goring, haring, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, poring, pouring, preparing, procuring, quiring, reassuring, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, securing, sharing, shoring, snaring, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, squaring, staring, starring, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: naggier. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ageing, earing, gaeing, gainer, ganger, ginger, grange, nagger, raging, reagin, regain, regina. | |
-2 letters: agger, aggie, aging, anger, eggar, gager, garni, grain, range, regna, reign, renig. | |
-3 letters: ager, agin, airn, earn, gaen, gage, gain, gane, gang, gear, gien, giga, girn, gnar, gran, grig, grin, near, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rein, ring. | |
-4 letters: age, ain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: agreeing, angering, enraging, ganglier, gearings, greasing, lagering, regaling, snaggier, wagering. | |
+2 letters: averaging, badgering, beggaring, daggering, dangering, degrading, deranging, dogearing, engraving, enlarging, gandering, gardening, garnering, gartering, gathering, gheraoing, graveling, gregarine, intergang, laagering, niggarded, pargeting, presaging, rearguing, regaining, regarding, regauging, regearing, reglazing, regrading, regrating, rehanging, reimaging, restaging, retagging, saggering, targeting. | |
+3 letters: absterging, aggrandise, aggrandize, aggressing, aggression, aggrieving, begroaning, brigandage, caregiving, cragginess, degreasing, deraigning, derogating, desugaring, earwigging, embargoing, emigrating, engrafting, engrailing, engraining, engravings, estranging, gallerying, gangrening, garmenting, gatherings, gauffering, generating, gingersnap, graecizing, grangerism, gravelling, greatening, gregarines, leaguering, leveraging, margenting, operagoing, pargetting, realigning, rechanging, recharging, redamaging, redarguing, reengaging, regelating, regrafting, regranting, regulating, relegating, renegading, seignorage, staggering, swaggering, triggerman. | |
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