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: 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.