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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ungear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having gears not engaged or disconnected
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Examples
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Chief Executive Francis Salway said at Wednesday's results that he expects developments to generate a 14% ungeared internal rate of return, double that on acquisitions.
Land Securities' Development Gamble Ren 2011
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As long as the distinction between geered and geared remains intact, the undead can remain ungeared.
Misinformation: Simple Bikes Can Do Amazing Things BikeSnobNYC 2009
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So 1st Guards Tank Division, far from preparing for a renewed advance, allowed itself to be deluded into adopting a much more passive posture, ungeared to pursuing a retiring opponent at once.
First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984
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Most of us allow the mechanism of the human body to shift as best it can and as long as it can, should it happen to become ungeared, ignoring the frequent warnings which the ever increasing morbid changes and wreckage give us.
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We have disregarded the warnings of our ungeared, disordered machine, or else we have merely tinkered with it.
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She re-entered the car, which shook from the running of the ungeared motor that Walter had started for her.
The Motor Girls Margaret Penrose
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We are for the time being hardly democracies, even on the surface; the democratic machinery still exists, but is so ungeared by Censorship and Universal Service, that probably it could not work even if it wanted to.
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He must measure, and to a hair's-breadth, every content of the world by means of a bloodied sponge, tucked somewhere in his skull, which is ungeared by the first cup of wine and ruined by the touch of his own finger.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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He must measure, to a hair's-breadth, every content of the world by means of a bloodied sponge, tucked somewhere in his skull, a sponge which is ungeared by the first cup of wine and ruined by the touch of his own finger.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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The Cosmos 'Jupiter' was -- for it is no longer being made -- a 450 horse-power nine-cylinder radial engine, air-cooled, with the cylinders set in one single row; it was made both geared to reduce the propeller revolutions relatively to the crankshaft revolutions, and ungeared; the normal power of the geared type was 450 horse-power, and the total weight of the engine, including carburettors, magnetos, etc., was only
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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