Gall

[gɔːl] or [ɡɔl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury.

(noun.) a skin sore caused by chafing.

(verb.) irritate or vex; 'It galls me that we lost the suit'.

錄入:露西--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

(n.) The gall bladder.

(n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

(n.) Impudence; brazen assurance.

(n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

(v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

(v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.

(v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.

(v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.

(v. i.) To scoff; to jeer.

(n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

整理:卢修斯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. (Anat.) Bile.[2]. Bitterness, rancor, spite, malice, maliciousness, malignity.[3]. Nutgall, gall-nut.

v. a. [1]. Chafe, fret, excoriate, hurt by rubbing.[2]. Provoke, vex, irritate, tease, exasperate, incense, affront, harass, annoy, plague.

艾哈迈德校對

解釋/意思:

n. a light nut-like ball which certain insects produce on the oak-tree used in dyeing—also Gall′-nut.—v.t. to fret or hurt the skin by rubbing: to annoy: to enrage.—v.i. (Shak.) to act in a galling manner.—ns. Gall′ate a salt of gallic acid; Gall′fly an insect which occasions gall on plants by puncturing.—adj. Gall′ing irritating.—adv. Gall′ingly.—Gallic acid a crystalline substance obtained from gall-nuts and used in making ink.

n. the greenish-yellow fluid secreted from the liver called bile: bitterness: malignity.—ns. Gall-bladd′er a pear-shaped bag lying on the under side of the liver a reservoir for the bile; Gall′-stone a hard concretion in the gall-bladder or biliary ducts.—Gall and wormwood anything extremely disagreeable and annoying.—In the gall of bitterness in a state of extreme hostility to God (Acts viii. 23).

錄入:曼蒂