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Geared   /gɪrd/   Listen
Geared

adjective
1.
Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.



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"Geared" Quotes from Famous Books



... men, Save for the thousandth man, deny themselves And live in meagreness to make sure a life Of meagreness by hearth stones long since stale; And live in ways, companionships as fixed As the geared figures of the Strassburg clock. You wonder at war? Why war lets loose desires, Emotions long repressed. Would you stop war? Then let men live. The moral equivalent Of war is freedom. Art does not suffice— Religion is not life, but life is living. And painted cherries to the hungry ...
— Toward the Gulf • Edgar Lee Masters

... that lifts the exhaust valve. C, having twice as many teeth as A, revolves at half its rate. This ensures that the valve shall be lifted only once in two revolutions of the crank shaft to which it is geared. The cogs are timed, or arranged, so that the cam begins to lift the valve when the piston has made about seven-eighths of its explosion stroke, and closes the valve at the end of ...
— How it Works • Archibald Williams

... is how we train, organize, and educate our combat officers and key enlisted personnel. Command must be geared to achieving the best of the best-not the best among the good. Assimilating in real time the vast amount of information and putting information to use will no doubt lead to major changes in the composition, ...
— Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance • Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade



Words linked to "Geared" :   engaged, ungeared, in gear, intermeshed, meshed



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