Neared vs Geared - What's the difference?
neared | geared |
(near)
Physically close.
* Dryden
Closely connected or related.
* Bible, Leviticus xviii. 12
Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
(of an event) Approaching.
Approximate, almost.
(dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
(obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.
* Milton
(obsolete, slang) Stingy; parsimonious.
Having a small intervening distance with regard to something.
(colloquial) nearly
* 1666 Samuel Pepys Diary and Correspondence (1867)
* 1825 David Hume, Tobias George Smollett The History of England p. 263
* 2003 Owen Parry Honor's Kingdom p. 365
* 2004 Jimmy Buffett A Salty Piece of Land p. 315, p. 35
* 2006 Juliet Marillier The Dark Mirror p. 377
Close to, in close proximity to.
* 1820 , (Mary Shelley), :
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(gear)
(uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
Clothing; garments.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(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)
(uncountable, archaic) stuff.
* 1662 , , Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
(obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
* Spenser
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
* Latimer
(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.
As verbs the difference between neared and geared
is that neared is past tense of near while geared is past tense of gear.neared
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*near
English
Synonyms
* near sideAntonyms
* off sideSee also
* nearsideAdjective
(er)- He served great Hector, and was ever near , / Not with his trumpet only, but his spear.
- She is thy father's near kinswoman.
- a near friend
- a version near to the original
- a near escape
- The end is near .
- The two words are near synonyms.
- the near''' ox; the '''near leg
- the nearest way
Antonyms
* remoteDerived terms
* near abroad * near-death experience * near-Earth object * Near East * near infrared * near-minimal pair * near miss * near the knuckle * nearly * nearnessAdverb
(er)- I'm near -sighted.
- ...he hears for certain that the Queen-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France....
- Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse.
- Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound.
- "I damn near forgot." He pulled an envelope from his jacket.
- The fire was almost dead, the chamber near dark.
Derived terms
* nearsightedPreposition
(English prepositions)- He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door.
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- It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching.
John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
Usage notes
Joan Maling (1983) shows that near'' is best analysed as an adjective with which the use of ''to'' is optional, rather than a preposition. It has the comparative and the superlative, and it can be followed by ''enough''. The use of ''to however is usually British.Antonyms
* far fromSee also
* (wikipedia) * para- * nighReferences
* Joan Maling (1983),Transitive Adjectives: A Case of Categorial Reanalysis'', in F. Henry and B. Richards (eds.), ''Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles , vol.1, pp. 253-289.
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*geared
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*gear
English
Noun
(wikipedia gear)- Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear .
- (Chaucer)
- Homely gear and common ware.
- Have you got any gear ? Dominic, have you got any acid?
- "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."
- Thus go they both together to their gear .
- (Wright)
- That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.
