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Geared vs Drove - What's the difference?

geared | drove |

As verbs the difference between geared and drove

is that geared is (gear) while drove is (drive).

As a noun drove is

a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

geared

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gear)

    • Anagrams

    *

    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

    * * * * ----

    drove

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) drove, drof, draf, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
  • (usually, in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
    • 2009', Erik Zachte: ''New editors are joining English Wikipedia in '''droves !
  • A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven

    • Derived terms

    * in droves

    Etymology 2

    From earlier drave, from (etyl) drave, draf, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (drov)
  • (drive).
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
  • To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.

    • Anagrams

    * * English irregular simple past forms