(n.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
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".
Glaring
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glare
(a.) Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) What is shocking is the number of them on NGO boards, and the glaring absence of so many other kinds of expertise.
(2) The Heliomat film viewer offers impressive reproductions of 100 mm film on a glare-free glass screen.
(3) On the other hand, the greater diastolic response and appearance of VES in night driving subgroups during glare suggest a greater sensitivity to the glare pressor test in these subjects.
(4) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.
(5) When Donald Trump takes the Japanese prime minister , Shinzo Abe, to his resort at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend, eyebrows will rise – and not just because of the glaring conflict of interest in hosting a state visit at a flagship Trump property.
(6) In the course of this teamwork the deficiencies and drawbacks of hospitalisation legislation have become glaringly evident.
(7) The glaring inconsistency now so prevalent in the management of children must be countered by clear positive guidelines and by 'unifying principles' which are embodied in legislation.
(8) "Every bit of good news sends that team into decline," he said as he glared at the opposition leader "but I can tell him the good news is going to keep coming."
(9) Summer targets Our squad has the same glaring gaps as always.
(10) The most glaring outcome is that all the houses pay less tax in real terms today than they did in local rates a third of a century ago.
(11) Night and day glare sensitivity were each associated only with increased severity of posterior subcapsular cataracts (P less than or equal to 0.003) and with decreased visual acuity (P less than 0.001).
(12) With Altidore's lack of movement glaringly apparent, the crowd agitated for Steven Fletcher's liberation from the bench and, taking the hint, Sunderland's manager threw him on.
(13) Increased glare sensitivity diminishing the ability to drive under mesopic conditions can be due to scattered light produced by artificial lenses.
(14) But given its popularity, it is little wonder that negotiating "Facebook divorce" status updates has become another unhappy event for failed romances, over when to launch the site's broken-heart icon out into the glare of the world's news feed.
(15) Ofsted said its inspectors had raised "glaringly serious" problems in Haringey's child protection regime with Shoesmith, despite her insistence that they were "never made clear" to her before the publication of the inspectors' report.
(16) As for Countryfile, Hunt personally oversaw the revamp: "Yes, we did change the presenting line-up, editorially, moving it from daytime to the glare of peak time.
(17) LogMAR visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and glare sensitivity measurements were made on 39 eyes of 18 cataractous subjects and compared against normative data.
(18) And it's that grizzly commitment to glaring and bone-crunching that's made him so internationally bankable.
(19) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(20) Athlete Oscar Pistorius will be back in the glare of the world's media when his murder trial resumes on Monday but, in an unorthodox legal move, he will not be the first witness for his own defence.