What's the difference between gear and torque?

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".

Torque


Definition:

  • (n.) A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.
  • (n.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.
  • (n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
  • (2) The behaviour of these parameters with mean torque was found to follow two simple rules.
  • (3) There were no significant effects of training on the time-related contractile properties (time to peak torque, half-relaxation time), CSA, or %MUA of the elbow flexors or knee extensors.
  • (4) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
  • (5) The torques, although not large enough to dislodge the socket immediately, are repetitive and so may contribute to loosening.
  • (6) The purpose of this study was to test for differences in the maximal isometric hip abduction torque produced between hip sides across multiple hip abduction angles.
  • (7) Torque pulses (of 10 or 100 msec) injected randomly to load or unload the movements stretched or slackened the appropiate prime movers: biceps or triceps.
  • (8) The torque versus rotation curves can be divided into two straight regions and two transition zones.
  • (9) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
  • (10) This study compared the effect of varied training frequencies on the development of isometric lumbar extension torque (strength) over 12- and 20-week training periods.
  • (11) When maximal isometric trunk flexor or extensor torques were imposed upon a maximal Valsalva manoeuvre, transversus abdominis activity and intra-abdominal pressure remained comparable within and across conditions, whereas obliquus internus, obliquus externus and rectus abdominis activities either markedly increased (flexion) or decreased (extension).
  • (12) An 8-French right Judkins guiding catheter with a single side hole (USCI), a 3.0 mm balloon dilatation catheter (ACS), and a 0.018 high torque floppy guide wire (ACS) were used.
  • (13) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
  • (14) Both loadings of axial compression force and axial torque are considered.
  • (15) An artificial joint that articulates with full fluid film lubrication could greatly reduce wear and frictional torque and hence reduce the incidence of loosening and inflammatory tissue reaction.
  • (16) The relationship between semitendinosus muscle force and knee joint kinematics during isometric torque production was examined in the frog (Rana pipiens) hindlimb.
  • (17) Phasic-tonic MUs exhibited a phasic burst of activity during the torque ramp which exceeded the firing rate during the static hold period.
  • (18) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
  • (19) The torque was dependent on the physical distribution of the texture of the sole and slightly dependent on the frictional force.
  • (20) The rate-torque curves for most of these cells were curvilinear (plateau occurred at heavy torque loads), although some cells showed a linear relationship.

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