gear shift

See also: gearshift

English

Noun

gear shift (plural gear shifts)

(automotive) That part of a gearbox involved in changing gear, including the lever and the forks attached to it.
(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
(figurative) a stark change, esp. between considerably differently paced things (e. g. in a narration, topics on an agenda, music)

Translations

part of a gearbox involved in changing gear

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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
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Norwegian:
Bokmål: girskift n, girskifte n

Nynorsk: girskift n, girskifte n
Polish: dźwignia zmiany biegów f
Romanian: schimbător de viteză (ro) n
Swedish: växel (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: cần số

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, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
“gear shift”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“gear shift”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.