forward gear

collocation in English

meaningsofforwardandgear

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forward
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.wəd/us
/ˈfɔːr.wɚd/
towards the direction that is in front ...
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gear
noun
uk
/ɡɪər/us
/ɡɪr/
a device, often consisting of connecting sets of wheels with teeth (= points) around the edge, that controls how much power from an engine goes to the moving parts of ...
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(Definition offorwardandgearfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The suddenness of the imposition of quotas is like throwing a car that is being driven inforwardgearinto reverse.
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Having passed fromforwardgearto neutral, we now come to reverse gear.
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I am content to support it tonight and to see what happens now that we have realism in agricultural policy and are moving inforwardgearagain.
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On some engines the die block was in the top of the link inforwardgear.
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It was canceled after the 1980 model year partly because of the elimination of aforwardgearto make it a three-speed.
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Forwardgearratios are infinitely variable between 3.1720.529 and reverse gear ranges from 4.5111.693.
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When the transmission upshifted to second gear, theforwardgearassembly locked and the input torus now ran at engine speed.
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One day a customer accidentally left her car inforwardgearinstead of reverse while leaving and crashed through the front wall.
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The model is pushed forwards to put the eccentric in theforwardgearposition and backwards to put it in the backward gear position.
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That is, the input torus of the fluid coupling ran at a lower speed than the engine, due to the reduction of theforwardgearassembly.
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The earlier sequence had been criticized on safety grounds for placing reverse after aforwardgear, instead of having neutral between reverse and the forward ranges.
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It turned out that the occupants were going to vote, but all the forward gears on the tractor had given out.
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This gearbox was fitted to approximately the first hundred vehicles but was found unsatisfactory and was replaced by a gearbox with four forward gears and one reverse.
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Designed for longitudinal engine configurations, the series includes 4 forward gears.
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It includes a 5th gear that functions as an overdrive gear, light-weight aluminum housings, a synchromesh reverse gear, and synchromeshed helical cut forward gears.
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On a more practical note, buyers paying extra for the four-speed transmission now enjoyed synchromesh on all four forward gears.
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There are 5 forward gears and 1 reverse gear.
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Each of the forward gears on the countershaft is permanently meshed with a corresponding gear on the output shaft.
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There are four forward gears and one in reverse.
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The transmission had four forward gears and one reverse.
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