What's the difference between gear and geer?

Gear


Definition:

  • (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.
  • (n.) Goods; property; household stuff.
  • (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
  • (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
  • (n.) Warlike accouterments.
  • (n.) Manner; custom; behavior.
  • (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.
  • (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
  • (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
  • (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
  • (n.) See 1st Jeer (b).
  • (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
  • (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
  • (v. t.) To provide with gearing.
  • (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
  • (2) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
  • (3) We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC.” Clarkson, May and Hammond have signed up to launch a rival show on Amazon’s TV service , while Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of the BBC’s Top Gear show with fellow presenters Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.
  • (4) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
  • (5) The modified CIRS was operationalized with a manual of guidelines geared toward the geriatric patient and for clarity was designated the CIRS(G).
  • (6) The allegations come weeks after Top Gear executives expressed regret over a remark made by Clarkson on the show's Burma special, broadcast in March.
  • (7) This information will allow for efficient utilization of time and resources in planning continuing education programs geared toward mammographic screening.
  • (8) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
  • (9) Turing to hypnosis, it is made clear that a trance is the execution of a momentarily proposed programme; it is not the result of a generalised mechanical action, but is preordained and geared to various situations.
  • (10) Snapchat is also thinking about new devices, launching a Snapchat Micro app for Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch in September, capable of shooting pics and videos with the device's camera, then sharing them.
  • (11) Curiously, actual modelling conducted by the Housing Industry Association suggests that limiting negative gearing could actually cause house prices to go up.
  • (12) "It's horrible and brutal to be that far back and searching for those gears and they're not there," O'Hare admitted.
  • (13) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
  • (14) However, Ofcom concluded that the word was capable of causing offence and the context did not justify its broadcast, finding Top Gear in breach of section 2.3 of the broadcasting code, which covers generally accepted standards.
  • (15) The commonest causes of death were pneumonia and entanglement in fishing gear.
  • (16) When accused of muttering it while reciting Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo, during filming of BBC2s Top Gear, he said he had not, that he would absolutely never use "the most racist word of them all".
  • (17) Hampton added: "[Hester's] pay is strongly geared to the recovery of RBS, which he was recruited to turn around, having played no part in its collapse.
  • (18) As Hillary gears up for a possible presidential run in 2016, women are already lining up to rally by her side.
  • (19) James May: ‘We are not in a race with Chris Evans’ Top Gear’ Read more The new series is expected to air towards the end of May and may be shorter than its original intended run of eight episodes.
  • (20) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".

Geer


Definition:

  • () Alt. of Geering

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From electricians and carpenters, everyone should be able to take card and make money,” said de Geer.
  • (2) Effects of infestation by Sarcoptes scabiei (De Geer) on pruritus and other behaviors of pigs for 9-13 wks after weaning were evaluated.
  • (3) Bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1) was detected in Musca autumnalis De Geer after feeding on virus suspensions in bovine albumin or sucrose.
  • (4) We go to bed early,” says Chotelal Gupta, who runs the nearest thing Geer has to a shop.
  • (5) (Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire) Henry Richard Geers Cotterell.
  • (6) There was also a significant association between dental anxiety and general fearfulness measured by the Fear Survey Schedule II (Geer, 1965) (r = 0.31; p less than 0.001).
  • (7) The prevalence of bedbugs (Cimex hemipterus L.), chicken ticks (Argas persicus Oken) and headlice (Pediculus capitis De Geer) was surveyed in a rural area of The Gambia.
  • (8) The acarofauna in 124 samples of house dust from beds and carpets in seventy-four homes in Glasgow, Scotland, comprised thirty-one species of which the most abundant were Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Trouessart) (64.3%), Glycyphagus domesticus (De Geer) (16.7%), Euroglyphus maynei (Cooreman) (11.6%), Tarsonemus sp.
  • (9) Trap perches were utilised to quantify mite recoveries during efficacy tests of pyrethrin formulations against experimental infestations of Dermanyssus gallinae (De Geer, 1778) in budgerigars and pigeons, and to monitor mite recoveries from untreated canaries.
  • (10) Variability of the total number of type A median neurosecretory cells in the protocerebrum was studied in Micapoda elongata Linn., Elima securigera Brunn., Holochlora indica Kirby, Neoconocephalus pallidus Reclt., Latana inflata Brunn., Gryllotalpa africana Chopard, Gryllus bimaculatus De Geer, Chrotogonus oxypterus Blanchard, Aeolopus affinis Bol., Spathosternum prasiniferum Walker, Hieroglyphus furcifer Ser., Acrida exaltata Walker, Altrastomorpha cranulata Fab., Pyrgomorpha bispinosa Walker, Cyrtacanthacris ranacea Stoll and Poecilocerus pictus Fab.
  • (11) The dominant species of Culicidae trapped were 39% Aedes communis (De Geer), 21% Ae.
  • (12) 118 children, aged 10-12, also answered a shortened version of the Geer Fear Scale (GFS), scoring 15 to 60 in the direction of increasing general fear.
  • (13) The banks have done a great job with the card infrastructure so that it is so robust, secure and trusted, that people don’t really mind where they use their cards these days with the chip,” said de Geer.
  • (14) communis (De Geer) group mosquitoes, collected in an Ockelbo (OCK) virus enzootic area in central Sweden, to transmit this virus.
  • (15) Speaking to an audience at this year’s BlackHat security conference in Las Vegas, Geers declared cyberwar a real and present danger.
  • (16) British bad boy novelist Jimmy (Chris Geere) goes to his ex-girlfriend’s wedding and tells her off on the dance floor.
  • (17) As the recent hacks of the Democratic National Committee and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign have shown, cyberwarfare has reached US shores – and it’s likely to get much worse, says Kenneth Geers, a senior research scientist with cyber security firm C omodo.
  • (18) The 2007 attacks on Estonia were about availability – denying its citizens access to essential services, says Geers, who is also the editor of Cyberwar in Perspective, a collection of essays by experts about Russian aggression the Ukraine.
  • (19) Feces from animals treated with boluses were tested with face fly larvae, Musca autumnalis De Geer, to demonstrate fecal activity of moxidectin.
  • (20) The keynote speaker of Black Hat, which begins on Saturday, is Dan Geer, a highly respected information security expert who currently serves as security chief of In-Q-Tel, the technology-investment arm of the CIA and the broader intelligence community.

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