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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gear.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged

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Examples

  • The album is on Concord, a niche label geared to traditional tastes, so nobody's expecting a full-scale comeback, commercially.

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  • The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the recovery of a what it described as a geared disk could be crucial to a full understanding of the nature of the engine failure, and may have implications for the prevention of future similar occurrences.

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  • The album is on Concord, a niche label geared to traditional tastes, so nobody's expecting a full-scale comeback, commercially.

    Macy Gray: A Spiritual Comeback With 'The Sellout' 2010

  • This album is on Concord, a niche label geared to traditional tastes, so nobody's expecting a full-scale commercial comeback.

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  • It caused me to create sections of my rubric geared toward measuring/assessing depth of thought and strength of supporting arguments.

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  • "Consumers have changed the way they think about their homes and about decoration and design, and I'm not sure all the magazines have kept pace with that," said Deborah Needleman, editor in chief at Condé Nast's Domino, a shelter title geared toward younger consumers.

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  • Last year, Time's In Style magazine scrapped Your Look, a quarterly fashion title geared toward readers in their late teens, after two disappointing issues.

    US Weekly to Launch a Quarterly Spinoff 2008

  • There are a remarkable number of lessons available here, from karate to workshops at the Casa de la Cultura, geared from the pre-kinder to the geriatric.

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  • There are a remarkable number of lessons available here, from karate to workshops at the Casa de la Cultura, geared from the pre-kinder to the geriatric.

    Comparing Morelia area to Lake Chapala - questions 2002

  • The games in the titles geared toward generic viagra in canada online education and helped younger children to become more familiar with the colors, the letters and numbers or tasks associated with them as to add, while spelling and assorting.

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