gear

gear / gÇǝ(r) / n

၁။ [U] (အားကစားခြင်း၊ အပျော်ခရီး ထွက်ခြင်း စသည်တို့အတွက်) တန်ဆာပလာ၊ ပစ္စည်း၊ အသုံး အဆောင်။ All his camping gear was packed in the rucksack. ❍ We're only going for two days ^__ you don't need to bring so much gear! ❍ She was wearing her party gear.
၂။ [U] (esp in compounds) စက်အစိတ်အပိုင်း။ winding-gear for lifting heavy loads. See also Landing-Gear
၃။ (က) (C often pl ) ဂီယာ။ Careless use of the clutch may damage the gears. ❍ The car started with a crashing of gears (ie a noise made by operating them badly). ❍ BICYCLE
(ခ) [U] ဂီယာ အနေအထား။ engage bottom/ first gear ❍ change/ shift gear ❍ The car is in/ out of gear.
၄။ [U] အရှိန်။ The party organization is moving into top gear as the election approaches. ❍ The runner at the back suddenly changed gear (ie got faster) and overtook the others.
❏ gear-change n ဂီယာပြောင်းခြင်း။ a smooth gear-change.
❏ gearing /'gÇǝrÇŋ / n [U]
၁။ ဂီယာအုံ တည်ဆောက်ပုံ။ The gearing of this machine is unusual.
၂။ (Brit finance ) ကုမ္ပဏီတစ်ခုမှ ငွေချေးယူခြင်းနှင့် ကုမ္ပဏီအစုရှင်များ ၏ ငွေပေးသွင်းခြင်း ဆက်နွှယ်ပုံ။
❏ gear lever (US usu gear shift ) n ဂီယာတံ။ ❍ BICYCLE, CAR
❏ gear sth to/ towards/ for sth [PHRV ] လိုက်လျော ညီထွေ ရှိစေသည်။ Our effort is geared to a higher level of production. ❍ clothes geared for a particular market.
❏ gear up (for/to sth) ; gear sb/sth up (for/to sth) [PHRV ] အဆင်သင့်ဖြစ်သည်။ အသင့်ပြင်သည်။ The company's gearing (itself) up for a big export drive. ❍ I was all geared up (ie excited and ready) to give a talk and now the conference has been cancelled.