Police Definition–noun | 1. | Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws. | | 2. | (used with a plural verb ) members of such a force: Several police are patrolling the neighborhood. | | 3. | the regulation and control of a community, esp. for the maintenance of public order, safety, health, morals, etc. | | 4. | the department of the government concerned with this, esp. with the maintenance of order. | | 5. | any body of people officially maintained or employed to keep order, enforce regulations, etc. | | 6. | people who seek to regulate a specified activity, practice, etc.: the language police. | | 7. | Military. (in the U.S. Army) | a. | the cleaning and keeping clean of a camp, post, station, etc. | | b. | the condition of a camp, post, station, etc., with reference to cleanliness. | | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to regulate, control, or keep in order by or as if by means of police. | | 9. | Military. to clean and keep clean (a camp, post, etc.) | |
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Gear Definition–noun | 1. | Machinery. | a. | a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. | | b. | an assembly of such parts. | | c. | one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. | | d. | a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear. | | | 2. | implements, tools, or apparatus, esp. as used for a particular occupation or activity; paraphernalia: fishing gear. | | 3. | a harness, esp. of horses. | | 4. | Nautical. | a. | the lines, tackles, etc., of a particular sail or spar. | | b. | the personal tools, clothing, and other possessions of a sailor. | | | 5. | portable items of personal property, including clothing; possessions: The campers keep all their gear in footlockers. | | 6. | wearing apparel; clothing: The fashion pages of the Sunday paper are featuring the latest fall gear. | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to provide with or connect by gearing. | | 9. | to put in or into gear. | | 10. | to provide with gear; supply; equip. | | 11. | to prepare, adjust, or adapt to a particular situation, person, etc., in order to bring about satisfactory results: The producers geared their output to seasonal demands. | –verb (used without object) | 12. | to fit exactly, as one part of gearing into another; come into or be in gear. | –adjective | 13. | Slang. great; wonderful. | —Verb phrases | 14. | gear down, | a. | Automotive. to shift the
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transmission of a vehicle to a lower gear: The truck driver geared down at the top of the hill. | | b. | to reduce in scope or intensity: With less income you'll have to gear down your spending habits. | | | 15. | gear up, | a. | to make or get ready for a future event or situation: Insiders say the senator is gearing up to run for governor. | | b. | to get or put on equipment or clothing for a particular purpose: The hikers geared up for the long trek down the mountain. | | c. | to arouse or excite, as with enthusiasm or expectation: The employees were geared up for a hard battle with management over working hours. | | —Idioms | 16. | in gear, | a. | Machinery. in the state in which gears are connected or meshed: The car is in gear. | | b. | in proper or active working order; functioning continuously without trouble: Every department in this company must be in gear at all times. | | | 17. | in or into high gear, in or into a state of utmost speed, activity, or efficiency: Military rearmament moved into high gear. | | 18. | out of gear, Machinery. in the state in which gears are not connected or meshed: The engine is out of gear. | | 19. | shift or switch gears, to change one's attitude, course of action, methods, etc., in an abrupt, dramatic, or unexpected manner: In the middle of the second act the play shifts gears from comedy to tragedy. | |
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