third gear
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- noun
- /θɜrd ɡɪr/
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- The instructor told me to use third gear when climbing the hill for better torque.
- shift into third gear
So what happens in the release part of using your brain is you go from first gear, pause, second gear, pause, third gear, pause.
- So what happens in the release part of using your brain is you go from first gear, pause, second gear, pause, third gear, pause.
Examples
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It was a six-hour journey instead of three in Pareng Gordo's jeep because third gear didn't work.
Fiction book (2000) -
We sometimes drove through whole counties in third gear.
Fiction book (1999) -
You know, the third gear is too high.
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The Association is in the driver's seat trying to shift the car into third gear.
Blog text (14) -
If you hit it at 85 in third gear, we'll make it to the Russian side.
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She stood up and pushed farther down on the clutch pedal, finally moving the stick shift into third gear.
Fiction book (2000) -
My transmission was doing some weird stuff for about a month, with occasional shifts at strange times in low-speed traffic and then occasionally not shifting into fourth gear when it should and staying in third gear on the highway.
Blog text (26) -
When driving on the highway, I shifted to third gear to maintain a steady speed.
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Using third gear allowed us to speed up while still having control of the vehicle.
Synonyms
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The gear used after second for higher speed in a vehicle
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the third forward gear in a vehicle's transmission' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'third' (an ordinal indicating position) with 'gear' (a vehicle transmission component). This literal, compositional pattern is common across languages and follows a straightforward noun-noun/ordinal construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Third gear comes from manual cars: the third gear is the third forward setting you choose, a middle position that gives more speed than first or second while still keeping extra power for hills or starts. That's why third gear means the 'middle' gear used to go faster without losing power.