gear shift

gear shift

See also: gearshift

English

Noun

gear shift (plural gear shifts)

1. (automotive) That part of a gearbox involved in changing gear, including the lever and the forks attached to it.
2. (automotive, US, Canada) The lever or other interface a human uses to shift gears.

   Synonyms: (US) shift lever, (US) stick shift, (British) gear lever, (British) gear stick

Translations

part of a gearbox involved in changing gear

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: скоростен лост m (skorosten lost) Chinese: Cantonese: 波棍 (bo1 gwan3) Mandarin: 調擋／调挡 (tiáodǎng) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can French: levier de vitesse (fr) m German: Gangschaltung (de) f Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Khmer: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: girskift n, girskifte n Nynorsk:girskift n, girskifte n Romanian: schimbător de viteză (ro) n Swedish: växel (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

lever or other device allowing to shift gears — see gear lever

Further reading

• “gear shift”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “gear shift”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “gear shift”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “gear shift” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.