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Second Gear

Definition: Second Gear

Second Gear

Noun

1. The gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; "he had to shift down into second to make the hill".

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

Synonym: Second Gear

Synonym: second (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Second Gear

English words defined with "second gear": second. (references)

Use in Literature: Second Gear

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Tom kept the truck in second gear over the rough road, to protect the springs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translations: Second Gear

Language		Translations for "second gear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		vaihtaa ykkösestä kakkoseen (change over from first to second gear). (various references)

French		seconde (second). (various references)

Pig Latin		econdsay eargay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Second Gear

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-n-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: coarsened, renegados.
	-2 letters: acrogens, ascender, censored, cordages, decagons, deranges, encoders, endosarc, grandees, grenades, necrosed, reascend, reasoned, renegado, seconder.
	-3 letters: acerose, acnodes, acrogen, angered, arenose, cadgers, candors, careens, cargoes, caserne, coarsen, codgers, congaed, congeed, congees, congers, cordage, corneae, corneas, corsage, creased, dancers, dangers, deacons, decagon, decanes, decares, decerns, derange, dogears, dragees, dragons, encaged, encages.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-n-o-r-s"
	+3 letters: nondecreasing.
	+4 letters: deconsecrating, discouragement.
	+5 letters: discouragements, grandiloquences, pseudopregnancy.
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Alternative Orthography: Second Gear

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

53 65 63 6F 6E 64 47 65 61 72

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

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

01010011 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000111 01100101 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#71 &#101 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0063 006F 006E 0064 0047 0065 0061 0072

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

537169818070241716784

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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