What's the difference between gear and gnar?

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".

Gnar


Definition:

  • (n.) A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; -- written also gnarr.
  • (v. i.) To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then there's a figure like Bassnectar, who can play the big carnival-style festivals but also takes his gnarly-but-trippy version of dubstep to events like Electric Forest, where he'll play on the same bill as jam bands like String Cheese Incident.
  • (2) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
  • (3) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
  • (4) 9.59am GMT “This slopestyle is , as the kids say, gnarly,” says Guy Hornsby.
  • (5) Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney are sitting side by side in a booth, scoffing cheeseburgers while appreciating the gathering of gnarly boozers at the jukebox in the corner.
  • (6) Pursuing his father's Italian roots he lived there for three years learning to cook, and the food he serves - a lot of offal, sweet and sour sauces for meats, gnarly rustic pasta dishes - is, he says, the antithesis of the ersatz version of Italian served in New York's old-fashioned red-sauce restaurants.
  • (7) Replacement of the signal recognition particle (SRP) 7S gene (SCR1) on a replicating plasmid with scr1-1 (G to A at 129 and A to T at 131 in the consensus sequence -GNAR- in the loop of domain III) resulted in temperature sensitivity for growth of cells in which both chromosomal SRP 7S RNA genes were deleted.
  • (8) They are primary RNA binding proteins, recognize RNA tetranucleotide loops with a GNAR consensus motif, and require a helical region located adjacent to the tetraloop.
  • (9) This old chestnut has raised its gnarly weather-beaten head more than once since our plea for seasonally themed questions.
  • (10) Grid reference: 51.3001, 1.1513 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Kailpot Crag, Ullswater, Lake District Ullswater is one of the most popular and beautiful lakes in the Lake District, but to escape the crowds head for this high, gnarly crag.
  • (11) "Some gnarly jocks were trying to hump up on the girls," says Korine.
  • (12) Shoppers could and do argue that their waste is spurred by supermarket offers; farmers could and do argue that their waste is caused by factors outside their control, such as: "I cannot eat this parsnip because it looks like the gnarly hand of a wizard."
  • (13) Stay sick, my friends, no seriously, I'm liveblogging today with a pretty gnarly cold, but I also promise to make it through all of this game.
  • (14) He is also the only sound editor the Coen Brothers work with, which means that he is the person responsible for that gnarly wood chipper noise in Fargo, the peel of wallpaper in Barton Fink, the resonance of The Dude’s bowling ball in The Big Lebowski and the absolutely chilling crinkle of Javier Bardem’s gum wrapper in No Country for Old Men.
  • (15) "It's just so… gnarly," he tells the team in the footage from that time.
  • (16) We thought if we both get pregnant, well, that's a bit gnarly, but we can ride it out.
  • (17) 11.02am GMT “On the more, er ... gnarly events, the commentary should go the full WWE,” says Gary Naylor.
  • (18) I'd say to Russell, 'Oh try this…'" The turning point was when she nailed a gnarly Venetian staple called baccalà mantecato .
  • (19) Click here to watch There was a notable absence of rock at this year's Grammys, but thankfully Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor took centre stage for the gnarly closer, performing Copy of A from his 2013 album Hesitation Marks, joined on stage by Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme.
  • (20) The upstairs rooms have sweeping views of the dense urban environment, while the pretty garden of potted flowers and gnarly old trees provides a welcome escape from it.

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