Array and Gear

array

An orderly arrangement.
- usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
An impressive display.
- usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
Especially fine or decorative clothing.
- synonyms: raiment, regalia
An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
- usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
- synonyms: range, lay out, set out
Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
- synonyms: align

(n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
(n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
(n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
(n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
(n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
(n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
(n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
(n.) An imposing series of things.
(n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
(n.) The panel itself.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

gear

A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
- synonyms: gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel
Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
- usage: "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain"
- synonyms: gearing, geartrain, power train, train
A mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle.
- synonyms: gear mechanism
Equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc..
- synonyms: paraphernalia, appurtenance

Set the level or character of.
- usage: "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"
- synonyms: pitch

(n.) Warlike accouterments.
(n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
(n.) Manner; custom; behavior.
(v.t.) To provide with gearing.
(n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
(n.) Goods; property; household stuff.
(n.) See 1st Jeer (b).
(n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
(n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
(n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.
(n.) A toothed wheel or cogwheel; as, a spur gear or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
(v.t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
(v.i.) To be in or come into, gear.
(n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.
(n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Gear is a masculine given name

(DoD) A general term for a collection of spars, ropes, blocks, and equipment used for lifting and stowing cargo and ships stores.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.