(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.
Gall
Definition:
(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.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(2) The degree of the filling up and the dilation of the gall bladder, its functional state as well as the passibility of d. cysticus are evaluated by ultrasound examination and computer determination of the surface and dimensions of the gall bladder.
(3) One patient presented a rupture of the gall-bladder with formation of a bilioma in the adjacent liver tissue.
(4) When tissue metabolism was irreversibly inhibited by exposure to formaldehyde, hydrogen ion concentration and pCO2 were significantly decreased in the mucosal side of the chamber compared with the viable gall bladder.
(5) In 15 subjects the gall bladder emptied in relation to eating according to a double exponential function.
(6) On 3 April he announced on his website that he had inoperable gall bladder cancer, giving him, at most, a year to live.
(7) This is a report of the short- and long-term complications in a premature infant with tracheoesophageal fistula, including those related to central venous alimentation, seizures, chylothorax, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, dental erosions, gastroesophageal reflux, pulmonary problems, and gall stones.
(8) Adenomyomas of the gall bladder are rare benign neoplasms.
(9) The lack of symptomatic gall stones in cross sectional surveys is probably due to their rapid diagnosis and treatment.
(10) Histological examination suggested that the gall sludge in the pancreatic cyst was caused by the reflux of bile into the pancreatic duct through the papilla of Vater.
(11) The results were analysed according the morphological criteria (demonstration of the bile duct, intra-hepatic ducts, gall bladder and renal tract) and functional criteria (T max, half-time biliary excretion values, development of activity in the bile duct, in the gall bladder and in the gut).
(12) The number of stones per gall-bladder averaged 6.3 (1-20), size of stones 1.7 cm (0.5-2.8 cm), and duration of treatment 11.9 h (5-24 h).
(13) The types of metastasis expansion in the bones were determined radiologically: the most frequent--osteolytic, less frequent--mixed, and the osteoplastic type (prostate cancer, gall-bladder cancer, and pancreas cancer).
(14) Fractional turnover rate on the two regimens correlated with gall bladder emptying (n = 16, r = 0.61, p less than 0.01), but not with small intestinal transit time (r = 0.07, NS).
(15) Few to many cryptosporidia were present in the gall bladders and bile ducts of infected birds.
(16) Pulse rate and blood pressure were not affected by the gall bladder distension.
(17) Pancreatic duct abnormalities were more severe and occurred more frequently in patients with gall stones who had stones in the biliary tree than in patients with a normal biliary tree (postcholecystectomy patients, 55% v 25%) but the difference between the two groups just failed to be significant (chi 2 = 3.34).
(18) We conclude that a number of non-specific chronic inflammatory histological abnormalities were present in primary sclerosing cholangitis gall bladders.
(19) On histological examination, there were signs of acute cardiac failure; edema of the lungs, liver and gall bladder, partial myofibrillar degeneration and cytoplasmic vacuoles in the media of a small coronary artery.
(20) These investigations reveal that the great majority of cases of gall-stones are undiagnosed.