What's the difference between gable and gale?

Gable


Definition:

  • (n.) A cable.
  • (n.) The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like.
  • (n.) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side.
  • (n.) A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On one side of the road stands an orderly row of RDP houses, their gable ends neatly rendered in pastel shades of peach and tangerine.
  • (2) The Lounge was a speakeasy in the 1920s and hosted Humphrey Bogart, Carol Lombard, Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Clark Gable.
  • (3) There are two estates on the edges of Lancaster up the road; one of pebbledash housing called Ryeland, tagged by the local gang with the number 902, and at the entrance to another, Marsh Estate, the number 808 graffiti sprayed on a gable end tells you whose territory you are entering.
  • (4) In 1987 she had returned to the ballet to create the role of Lowry's mother in Gillian Lynne's A Simple Man, made for BBC television to mark the centenary of the artist (played by Christopher Gable), which subsequently entered the repertory of Northern Ballet Theatre.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marco Rubio and Donald Trump at a debate on the campus of the University of Miami on 10 March 2016 in Coral Gables, Florida.
  • (6) Sexual frisson I mainly used my local library, before I reached my teenage years, to read through every single book in the Anne of Green Gables, What Katy Did, Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High and Chalet School series.
  • (7) The technique of 'initial strain' is introduced so as to analyze the effects of a gable bend and activation on the force system which is delivered by the orthodontic appliance.
  • (8) This restaurant was built in 1902, and Carole Lombard and Clark Gable honeymooned in the hotel upstairs.
  • (9) The bed had a red padded headboard and a creepy picture of Clark Gable on the wall.
  • (10) (But let's not be precious: the author has a very acute ear for that self-regarding, caustic showbizzery, and the chimp is full of apercus such as: "She was an absolute brick, though, Sylvia, and I just didn't see in her that bloodcurdlingly shallow and avaricious gold-digger everybody tells you she became after Doug's death, when she was briefly and lucratively married to Gable."
  • (11) Residential Derry is not as terrifyingly Balkanised as Belfast, with its 40-plus "peace lines", and there are considerably fewer gable-end murals than in the capital (though what there are serve as tourist draws).
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marco Rubio shakes hands former Florida Governor Jeb Bush as he celebrates victory in his Senate race at a rally in Coral Gables, Florida, in November 2010.
  • (13) This new work was described by the author as "an evening of high drung and slarrit" which, "with its turrets and its high-jointed gables, should have a particular appeal for anyone approaching it for the first time with a lasso".
  • (14) Last night the royals were heading back to anglophone Canada – to Prince Edward Island, land of one of the duchess's favourite books, Anne of Green Gables – and the prince's spokesman could afford to be condescending towards the demonstrators: "The couple are taking it in their stride.
  • (15) The original said that Drigg was in the shadow of Great Gable.
  • (16) Camilla's modest scene in the latest episode of the BBC's longest-running soap opera, recorded weeks ago at Clarence House, involved nothing more taxing than her supposedly visiting Ambridge's Grey Gables hotel, discussing her charity, the Osteoporosis Society, sampling the shortbread of the chef, Ian Craig, and engaging in a little gentle banter: "So, you're the genius with the shortbread?
  • (17) This can be overcome by the placement of gable bends or angulation in a vertical loop or retraction spring.
  • (18) Seeing the sophistication of these ruins – the trapezoid doorway that opened on to the plaza, the gabled kallanka halls for ceremony and meeting, the stairways and irrigation channels – I was struck by the question that has long haunted Peruvian history: how did a band of thugs and chancers from the illiterate plains of Estremadura, stranded thousands of miles beyond their supply lines and lost in a mountain terrain unlike anything they’d ever seen, bring down an empire of such reach and confidence?
  • (19) Because of the low load-deflection rate, moment-to-force ratios are relatively more constant if a gable bend (angulation) is placed.
  • (20) Moraga Vineyard, Los Angeles This 16-acre estate in the Moraga Canyon in upscale Bel Air, California, once played host to Hollywood stars including Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh and Spencer Tracy.

Gale


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
  • (2) This galE deletion was recombined into the chromosomal gal operons of S. typhimurium and Salmonella typhi Ty2.
  • (3) Large parts of the UK have been battered with a second wave of 100mph-plus gales inside 48 hours, causing serious road and rail disruption as the wind toppled a large number of trees.
  • (4) "The party's response has been absolutely extraordinary," Gale said.
  • (5) • A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale is published this month by Fourth Estate.
  • (6) Nerdy Gales (@NerdyGales) The size of the crowd seems to be inducing the #USMNT to play like it's a scrimmage #USAvUKR @KidWeil March 5, 2014 It’s an eerie atmosphere for sure, but there are so many US players on the field who must know they are long shots for the World Cup squad and that this may be their best, if not final chance to get to Brazil.
  • (7) galE mutants were isolated from three mouse-virulent strains of Salmonella choleraesuis (of group C1, O antigen 6,7) by selection for resistance to 2-deoxygalactose.
  • (8) These mutants had a galE phenotype, as evidenced by galactose sensitivity, altered LPS when grown in the absence of exogenous galactose, and reduced virulence in infant rats.
  • (9) When the justice secretary took to the airwaves yesterday , his purpose was more serious – to blow a gale through a generation of failed thinking on prisons, a failure that started the moment Clarke last lost control of penal policy.
  • (10) Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet in Kent, whose constituents include Hermitage and Middleton, has lobbied successive Foreign Office ministers for Africa over the years and is incensed that the British government is encouraging British companies to invest in Tanzania despite what happened at Silverdale.
  • (11) GALE runs on a PC-compatible computer with selected Pioneer LaserDisc players.
  • (12) The vehicle has been trundling around the large Gale crater looking for evidence that Mars was habitable in the ancient past.
  • (13) Vaccination with viable cells of an avirulent Salmonella typhimurium galE mutant provides mice with solid specific immunity against subsequent infection with a virulent smooth strain.
  • (14) The Port of Dover said the weather also brought gale force winds on the Channel while Sunderland's clash with Reading in Wearside was called off due to a waterlogged pitch.
  • (15) In claims fiercely denied by the party, Gale warns Farage: "There is a core faction associated with the party that is being used as a 'Black Ops' dirty tricks team against targets that include party members."
  • (16) The seed for the story came after Gale saw his father's photo in an old high school yearbook and wondered if they would have been friends had they been contemporaries.
  • (17) The unsettled weather looks set to continue throughout this week and into the weekend when strong to gale force southwesterly winds will bring spells of heavy rain across the UK at times, according to the Met Office.
  • (18) Two men were swept out to sea at Brighton beach in gale-force conditions, while two teenagers remained in hospital after the car they were travelling in collided with a gritter truck in South Ayrshire.
  • (19) States of emergency have been declared in numerous regions in the North Island, after rivers burst their banks following two days of heavy rain and gale-force winds.
  • (20) Through Connolly, he met George Orwell and Arthur Koestler , who became regular contributors; in later years, he appointed Eric Newby as the travel editor, persuaded Alan Ross to write on cricket and employed Gavin Young and the brilliant but deeply troubled John Gale, whose Clean Young Englishman is one of the finest English autobiographies.