Assertion: transmission's gear | /r/HasProperty | engaged
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: to the same gears
type: OTHER
value: by pressing the clutch
type: MANNER
value: by sliding them
type: MANNER
value: typically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The gears were typically engaged by sliding them on their shafts (hence the phrase shifting gears), which required careful timing and throttle manipulation when shifting, so the gears would be spinning at roughly the same speed when engaged; otherwise, the teeth would refuse to mesh.
text: This greatly reduces the resulting stress when gears are engaged.
text: As the first gear is engaged, the 2-4-6-R clutch is disengaged and the second gear cogs are engaged.
text: While one gear, third gear for example, is engaged, the clutch has the next gear, possibly fourth gear if the driver is speeding up, ready to go so it can instantly switch from third to fourth without losing any of the engine's power and without requiring the driver to press down the clutch pedal as he would need to in a manual transmission car.
text: While one gear is engaged, the clutch prepares to switch to the gear on the opposite clutch.
text: With a manual transmission, you control which gears are engaged by pressing the clutch and shifting the gears into place.
text: On an automatic transmission, brilliant engineering determines which gear is engaged without you having to do a dang thing except to press the gas or the brake pedals.
text: Below you’ll find a diagram of the power flow when the different gears in a 5-speed manual transmission vehicle are engaged.
text: In an automatic transmission, however, the gears are never physically moved and are always engaged to the same gears.