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gearshift

gearshift is the alternative spelling of gear shift.

Meaning of gear shift

Noun

gear shift (plural gear shifts)

  1. That part of a gearbox involved in changing gear, including the lever and the forks attached to it.
  2. (Canada, US) The lever or other interface a human uses to shift gears.
  3. (figuratively) a stark change, esp. between considerably differently paced things (e. g. in a narration, topics on an agenda, music)

Verb

gearshift (third-person singular simple present gearshifts, present participle gearshifting, simple past and past participle gearshifted)

  1. (rare) To shift gears.

Forms of gearshift

Noun
pluralgearshifts
Verb
third-person singular presentgearshifts
present participlegearshifting
past participlegearshifted
pastgearshifted

Questions about gearshift

What does gearshift mean?
Gearshift means to shift gears.
What is gearshift the alternative spelling of?
Gearshift is the alternative spelling of gear shift.
What part of speech is gearshift?
Gearshift is a verb.
What is the past tense of gearshift?
The past tense of gearshift is gearshifted.

Words near gearshift in the dictionary

  1. gears to
  2. gears towards
  3. gears up
  4. gearset
  5. gearsets
  6. gearshift
  7. gearshifted
  8. gearshifting
  9. gearshifts
  10. gearstick
  11. gearsticks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gearshift (page history and authors); gear shift (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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