gear vs spur wheel

spur wheel vs gear

gear and spur wheel both are nouns.

gear is a verb but spur wheel is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gear	Yes	No	Yes	No
spur wheel	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, spur wheel is a hyponym of gear; that is, spur wheel is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gear:

gear: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
spur wheel: gear wheels that mesh in the same plane

Other hyponyms of gear include bevel gear, pinion and crown wheel, pinion and ring gear, escape wheel, pinion, epicyclic gear, planet gear, planet wheel, planetary gear, rack and pinion, spur gear, sun gear, worm gear, worm wheel.

gear (noun)	spur wheel (noun)
a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion	gear wheels that mesh in the same plane
equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)

gear (verb)	spur wheel (verb)
set the level or character of

Difference between gear and spur wheel

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