dictionary definitions for "geared"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  geared
      adj : equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged
            [ant: ungeared]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Geared (g[=e]rd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. Gearing.]
     1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
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     2. (Mach.) To provide with gearing.
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     3. To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared
        their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.
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     Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to
        increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.
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