Gear vs Intended - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between gear and intended

is that gear is business matters; affairs; concern while intended is made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.

As nouns the difference between gear and intended

is that gear is equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor while intended is fiancé or fiancée.

As verbs the difference between gear and intended

is that gear is to provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio while intended is past tense of intend.

As adjectives the difference between gear and intended

is that gear is (mostly British (Scouse)) great or fantastic while intended is planned.

gear

English

Noun

(wikipedia gear)

(uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.

Clothing; garments.

* Spenser

Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear .

(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.

(Chaucer)

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

Homely gear and common ware.

(countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.

(countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.

(countable) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque

(slang) recreational drugs

* 2003 , Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)

Have you got any gear ? Dominic, have you got any acid?

(uncountable, archaic) stuff.

* 1662 , , Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:

"When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose."

(obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.

* Spenser

Thus go they both together to their gear .

(obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.

(Wright)

* Latimer

That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.

Synonyms

* cog, cogwheel, gearwheel

Derived terms

* change gear * change gears * high gear * gear lever * gear shift * gear up * shift gear * shift gears * up a gear

Verb

(en verb)

(engineering) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.

(engineering) To be in, or come into, gear.

to dress; to put gear on; to harness.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(mostly British (Scouse) ) great or fantastic

Anagrams

* * * * ----

intended

English

Adjective

(-)

Planned.

* 2002', United States General Accounting Office, ''Report to congressional committees: Foreign assistance'' read at on 14 May 2006 - Funds were spent for ' intended purposes and not misused.

(obsolete) Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.

(Spenser)

Antonyms

* unintended

Noun

(en noun)

*1899 ,

*:His mother had died lately, watched over, as I was told, by his Intended .

* 2005', Mori, on ''In Passing'' messageboard read at [ on 16 May 2006, ''Pffft'' - We both hated using that word [fiancé, and were constantly trying to use alternatives such as "betrothed" and "' intended "

Verb

(head)

(intend)

* 1917', Joseph Conrad, ''Victory'' read at on 14 May 2006 - His purpose was to discover how long these guests ' intended to stay.