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High Gear

Definition: High Gear

High Gear

Noun

1. A forward gear with a gear ratio giving high vehicle velocity for a given engine speed.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: High Gear

Synonym: high (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: High Gear

English words defined with "high gear": high ♦ overdrive. (references)

Specialty definitions using "high gear": inching starter ♦ PRINTING-ROLLER POLISHER ♦ VACUUM-METALIZER OPERATOR, vapor coater. (references)

Modern Usage: High Gear

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

In High Gear (1946)

High Gear (1933)

Love in High Gear (1932)

High Gear (1931)

In High Gear (1924)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: High Gear

Domain	Title
Books	Heaven in High Gear (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	High Gear Techtrail 3 Digital Compass and LED Flashlight (reference) High Gear Traildrop II Digital Compass and Thermometer (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: High Gear

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Currently, the Canadian economy is in high gear, with moderate mortgage rates (6.5 to 7.5 percent for one-year rates; seven to eight percent for three-year rates; and 7.25 to eight percent for five-year rates), strong job creation and high consumer confidence. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: High Gear

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
high gear	24
high gear cyclery	8
high gear compass	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: High Gear

Language		Translations for "high gear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		nagy sebesség (clip, high speed, top gear). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		高速 (high speed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うそく (best student, block, high speed, infarction, leading disciple, luminous flux, restraint, restriction, school regulations, speed of light, stoppage, tightness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ighhay eargay

Romanian		viteza a patra (top gear). (various references)

Russian		высшая передача (top gear). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		viši stepen. (various references)

Turkish		büyük vites (high). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: High Gear

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-h-i-r"
	-2 letters: hegari, hegira, higher.
	-3 letters: agger, aggie, eggar, gager, gerah, gighe, heigh.
	-4 letters: ager, gage, gear, giga, grig, hair, hare, hear, heir, high, hire, rage, ragi, rhea.
	-5 letters: age, air, are, ear, egg, era, erg, gae, gag, gar, ghi, gie, gig, hae, hag, hah, heh, her, hie, ire, rag, rah, reg, rei, ria, rig.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-h-h-i-r"
	+4 letters: hagiographer, hemorrhaging.
	+5 letters: hagiographers, hagiographies, hectographing, heliographing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: High Gear

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 67 68 47 65 61 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00100000 01000111 01100101 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#32 &#71 &#101 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068 0047 0065 0061 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42757374241716784

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern

5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern

9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography

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