Word Meanings - GEARING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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 locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in
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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 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 transmitted 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 of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc. (more info) 1. Harness.
Related words: (words related to GEARING)
- VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - TRANSMITTER
One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver. - CONSIDERINGLY
With consideration or deliberation. - ENGINER
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak. - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - ENGINERY
1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone. - MOTIONER
One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall. - MOTIONIST
A mover. - PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - COLLECTIVELY
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly. - TRAINING
The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training - IMPARTIAL
Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay. - TRAINABLE
Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - IMPARTIALIST
One who is impartial. Boyle. - TRANSMITTIBLE
Capable of being transmitted; transmissible. - CONSIDER
consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to - GEAR
See RELATION (more info) fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garawi, garwi ornament, 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser. 2. Goods; property; household - MOTION PICTURE
A moving picture. - INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster. - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - AIR ENGINE
An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight. - UNGEAR
To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - OLIVARY
Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.