"gear lever" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gear levers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gear lever (plural gear levers)
  1. (British) The lever used to change gears in a motor car. Wikipedia link: en:gear lever Tags: British Categories (topical): Auto parts Synonyms: gear stick [British], gear shift, ; [Canada, US], shifter, shift lever, stick, stickshift Related terms: gearbox, manual transmission, stickshift Translations (lever used to change gears): rathefboom (Afrikaans), gearstang [common-gender] (Danish), versnellingspook [masculine] (Dutch), gervisstong [feminine] (Faroese), girstong [feminine] (Faroese), vaihdekeppi (Finnish), vaihteenvalitsin (Finnish), levier de vitesses [masculine] (French), Schalthebel [masculine] (German), Schaltknüppel [masculine] (German), gírstöng [feminine] (Icelandic), leva del cambio (Italian), girspak [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), girstang (Norwegian Bokmål), girspak [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), girstang (Norwegian Nynorsk), dźwignia zmiany biegów [feminine] (Polish), schimbător [neuter] (Romanian), schimbător de viteze [neuter] (Romanian), levier de viteze (Romanian), palanca de cambios [feminine] (Spanish), cambio de marchas [masculine] (Spanish), växelspak [common-gender] (Swedish), kambyo (Tagalog), kol (Turkish), vites (Turkish), vites kolu (Turkish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for gear lever meaning in English (4.6kB)

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      "sense": "lever used to change gears",
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      "sense": "lever used to change gears",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "lever used to change gears",
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      "sense": "lever used to change gears",
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      "sense": "lever used to change gears",
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      "sense": "lever used to change gears",
      "word": "levier de viteze"
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      "sense": "lever used to change gears",
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      "sense": "lever used to change gears",
      "word": "kambyo"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "lever used to change gears",
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