different between gear vs overdrive

gear

English

Etymology

From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijan? (to prepare). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: gîr, IPA(key): /???(?)/
  • (US) enPR: gîr, IPA(key): /???/
  • Rhymes: -??(r)

Noun

gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)

  1. (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
  2. Clothing; garments.
  3. (obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
    • 1551, Ralph Robinson (sometimes spelt Raphe Robynson) (translator), Utopia (originally written by Sir Thomas More)
  4. (countable) A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.
    Synonyms: cog, cogwheel, gearwheel
  5. (countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
  6. (countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
  7. (aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.
  8. (slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
    • 2003, Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)
  9. (uncountable, archaic) Stuff.
    • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
  10. (obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
  11. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
    • March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gear (third-person singular simple present gears, present participle gearing, simple past and past participle geared)

  1. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
  2. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
  3. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
  4. (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
    This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.
    They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.
  5. (finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

gear (comparative more gear, superlative most gear)

  1. (chiefly Liverpudlian) great or fantastic

Anagrams

  • Ager, GRAE, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, rage

Manx

Alternative forms

  • geayr, geyre

Etymology

From Old Irish gér.

Verb

gear (verbal noun gearey)

  1. to laugh, chuckle

Adjective

gear

  1. sharp, keen
  2. sour, acid

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Alternative forms

  • ??r, ??rAnglian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *j?r?, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?r-. Cognate with Old Frisian j?r (West Frisian jier), Old Saxon j?r (Middle Low German jâr), Dutch jaar, Old High German j?r (German Jahr), Old Norse ár (Danish/Norwegian/Swedish år, Icelandic/Faroese ár), Gothic ???????????? (j?r). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra, season), Russian ??? (jara), Czech jaro, Lithuanian jore (springtime).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jæ???r/

Noun

??ar n (nominative plural ??ar)

  1. year
  2. the runic character ? (/j/)

Declension

Derived terms

  • ??ardagas
  • ??arl??
  • ?e?ra (uncertain)

Descendants

  • Middle English: yeer, here, yere, ?ere
    • English: year
    • Scots: year

Portuguese

Etymology

From an Old Portuguese *gear (compare geo), from Latin gel?re, present active infinitive of gel?. Doublet of the borrowing gelar. Compare also Galician xear.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?i?a?]

Verb

gear (first-person singular present indicative geio, past participle geado)

  1. (impersonal) to frost (weather)

Conjugation

Related terms


West Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /????r/

Adverb

gear

  1. together

Further reading

  • “gear (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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overdrive

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English overdriven, from Old English oferdr?fan, equivalent to over- +? drive. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurdrieuwe (to overdo, overstate), Dutch overdrijven (to exaggerate), German Low German overdrieven, överdrieven (to overdo, exaggerate), German übertreiben (to overdo, exaggerate), Norwegian overdrive (to exaggerate).

Verb

overdrive (third-person singular simple present overdrives, present participle overdriving, simple past overdrove, past participle overdriven)

  1. (transitive) To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.

Etymology 2

From over- +? drive From the gear over "D" (drive) in an automatic transmission vehicle.

Noun

overdrive (countable and uncountable, plural overdrives)

  1. (dated) A gear, on an automobile, higher than the normal top gear.
  2. A state of heightened activity.
Synonyms

(abbreviation)

  • OD
  • O/D
  • O.D. / O. D.
Coordinate terms
  • 4th gear (in an automatic transmission vehicle)
  • 5th gear (in a manual transmission vehicle)
Derived terms
  • (abbreviation) O. D. / O.D. / O/D / OD
Translations

See also

  • hyperdrive
  • understeer
  • oversteer

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

over- +? drive; after German übertreiben

Verb

overdrive (imperative overdriv, present tense overdriver, simple past overdrev or overdreiv, past participle overdrevet, present participle overdrivende)

  1. to exaggerate (overstate, to describe more than is fact)

Derived terms

  • overdrivelse

Related terms

  • overdreven

References

  • “overdrive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

overdrive

  1. neuter of overdriven

Verb

overdrive (present tense overdriv, past tense overdreiv, supine overdrive, past participle overdriven, present participle overdrivande, imperative overdriv)

  1. Alternative form of overdriva

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