Gale
[geɪl] or [ɡel]
Definition
(noun.) a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale.
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Definition
(n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
(n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze.
(n.) A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.
(v. i.) To sale, or sail fast.
(n.) A song or story.
(v. i.) To sing.
(n.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.
(n.) The payment of a rent or annuity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Breeze, current of air.[2]. Hurricane, tempest, storm.
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Definition
n. a periodic payment of rent.
n. a shrub growing in marshy spots usually called Sweet-gale.
n. a strong wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane: (coll.) a state of noisy excitement.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being caught in a gale, signifies business losses and troubles for working people.
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Examples
- Gale suggested that his simple electro-magnet, with its few turns of thick wire, should be replaced by one with a coil of long thin wire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mr. Gale went and opened. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It'll blow a gale in the course of the night! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Though he knows,' said Mr. Bounderby, now blowing a gale, 'that there are a set of rascals and rebels whom transportation is too good for! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It reefs its sail when a storm threatens or the wind blows pretty hard, and furls it entirely and goes down when a gale blows. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It must be something important which has brought you out in such a gale. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He explained this to Professor Gale, a colleague at the university, who later testified as to Morse’s work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mr. Donne and his guests, as I have said, are at dinner; Mrs. Gale waits on them, but a spark of the hot kitchen fire is in her eye. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The gale had blown itself out next day, but it was a bitter morning when we started upon our journey. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have been deceived. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They shivered in the emotional gale; they obstructed and the gale became destructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mrs. Gale, Mrs. Hogg, and Mrs. Whipp--their respective landladies--affirm that it is just for naught else but to give folk trouble. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Gale had been a churchwarden, and was indulgent to the clergy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There is a high gale in that sky, and on this hill-top. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The social gales of 1848 had blown, and, it seemed, blown themselves out. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Very long and very severe were the equinoctial gales that year. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The autumn of that year was a stormy one, and there was a long succession of southerly gales. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I could give many facts showing how frequently birds of many kinds are blown by gales to vast distances across the ocean. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- After three days at sea, terrible gales were encountered and much damage resulted. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The morning-star now stands over the tops of the mountains, and gales and breezes, not of earth, show that the gates of day are unclosing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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