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⚙️ Gear
Unicode: U+2699, U+FE0F
Description
A round metal gear with teeth. Used to talk about tools and engineering (both hardware and software). Also commonly used to indicate settings on user interfaces. May also represent hard work, e.g., grinding in sports. Samsung’s design originally featured a white gear icon on a green square.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:4.1
Keywords
cogcogwheelgeartool
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :gear: | |
| GitHub | :gear: | |
| Slack | :gear: | |
| Discord | :gear: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols -> Dictionary and map symbols
Definition:
Gear was approved as part of Unicode 4.1 in 2005 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Copy and paste this emoji: Copy http://emojipedia.org/gear/
Verbs:
- Roll steel ingots
Nouns:
- Physical item that can be used to achieve a goal
- Mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- An implement used in the practice of a vocation
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process.
- Any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal
- A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear
- A gear wheel
- Rotating machine
- A SmartArt graphic layout used to show interlocking ideas. Each of the first three lines of Level 1 text corresponds to a gear shape, and their corresponding Level 2 text appears in rectangles next to the gear shape. Unused text does not appear, but remains available if you switch layouts.
- A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part in order to transmit torque, in most cases with teeth on the one gear being of identical shape, and often also with that shape on the other gear.
- A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.