Dictionary entry

Gear-change

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) ဂီယာပြောင်းခြင်း။

Definition

gear / gÇǝ(r) / n ၁။ [U] (အားကစားျခင္း၊ အေပ်ာ္ခရီး ထြက္ျခင္း စသည္တို႔အတြက္) တန္ဆာပလာ၊ ပစၥည္း၊ အသံုး အေဆာင္။ 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) စက္အစိတ္အပိုင္း။ 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 အေနအထား။ engage bottom/ first gear ❍ change/ shift gear ❍ The car is in/ out of gear. ၄။ [U] အရိွန္။ 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 ဂီယာေျပာင္းျခင္း။ a smooth gear-change. ❏ gearing /'gÇǝrÇŋ / n [U] ၁။ ဂီယာအံု တည္ေဆာက္ပံု။ The gearing of this machine is unusual. ၂။ ( Brit finance ) ကုမၸဏီတစ္ခုမွ ေငြေခ်းယူျခင္းႏွင့္ ကုမၸဏီအစုရွင္မ်ား ၏ ေငြေပးသြင္းျခင္း ဆက္ႏႊယ္ပံု။ ❏ gear lever ( US usu gear shift ) n ဂီယာတံ။ ❍ BICYCLE, CAR ❏ gear sth to/ towards/ for sth [ PHRV ] လိုက္ေလ်ာ ညီေထြ ရိွေစသည္။ 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 ] အဆင္သင့္ျဖစ္သည္။ အသင့္ျပင္သည္။ 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.

Examples

  1. [change gear] : Helen changed gear as she approached the junction.
  2. [first/second etc gear] : At forty miles an hour you should be in fourth gear.
  3. [low/high gear] : Always use a low gear when driving down a steep hill.
  4. [grind/crash the gears] : You’ll ruin the gearbox if you keep grinding the gears like that.
  5. [in gear] : The car won’t move unless you’re in gear.
  6. [out of gear] : Take the car out of gear.
  7. Don’t forget to bring walking gear.
  8. We took down the tent and packed all the gear away.
  9. Police dressed in riot gear
  10. Firefighters with heavy lifting gear battled to free the survivors from the wreckage.