(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.
Tornado
Definition:
(n.) A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(2) In 2009 the Saudi air force used UK-supplied Tornado fighter-bombers in attacks in Yemen which killed hundreds – possibly thousands – of civilians.
(3) Violent emotions, especially in teenagers, are like spring tornadoes: their departure is as sudden as their violent arrival.
(4) The Tornados, based at Akrotiri in Cyprus, rely on Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft to sustain long-distance air patrols.
(5) Banner says that her work progresses more by accident than by design, although she clearly works hard, spending long days alone in her studio with her dog, Olive (a mongrel or "Hackney orgy dog" who recently took a tumble through the hole in the floorboards around Tornado Nude).
(6) South Carolina recorded a high turnout of about 600,000 on a day of heavy rain and a tornado warning.
(7) The call to the UK is made because it is a major supplier of weapons to Saudi Arabia, including a recent consignment of 500lb Paveway IV bombs, used by Tornado and Typhoon fighter jets, which are manufactured and supplied by the UK arms company BAE Systems.
(8) The third potential casualty – RAF Marham, in Norfolk, the base of Tornados engaged in air strikes over Libya – will be saved.
(9) The failure to apologise to Corbyn seemed to bother the prime minister a great deal more than it did his opponents, as he went on to admit he didn’t have an exit strategy for military action; he didn’t have a clue if there were 70,000 moderate Syrian ground troops and he didn’t quite know what a couple of Tornados could bring to the party.
(10) Those hospitalized or deceased had statistically significantly more deep cuts, concussions, unconsciousness and broken bones than those with them at the time of the tornado who were not hospitalized or killed.
(11) However, although the Tornados are ready to begin air strikes, sources said the task of choosing appropriate targets – many of them moving and small – would be a challenge for intelligence-gatherers.
(12) Although the Americans have launched air strikes against Isis, the RAF Tornado jets dispatched to the region have only been involved in surveillance.
(13) If the Harriers do fall victim to the Tornados, there may be no suitable aircraft available to fly from the first carrier, the Queen Elizabeth, which is due to enter service in 2016.
(14) "That's where all the CGI stuff came from – the tornados, the birds, the rain.
(15) And, if that happens, many of the controversies which raged in 2009 – when her crushing world 800m title triumph was overshadowed by accusations and insinuations about her gender – will again swirl around Rio like a tornado.
(16) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
(17) A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said : “Tornado teams are not necessarily launched in response to violent incidents.
(18) The RAF Tornados, based in Britain’s base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, can fire radar-guided anti-armour Brimstone missiles, which are conservatively estimated to cost £100,000 each; heavier Paveway IV bombs, estimated at £30,000 apiece; and long-range Storm Shadow missiles, estimated at nearly £790,000 each.
(19) The Ministry of Justice has not yet released figures for the Tornado squads for 2016, but recent figures for the deployment of the national tactical response group which deals with more minor incidents including rooftop protests, showed they were being deployed more than 60 times a month last summer.
(20) Saying that a Tornado GR4 would have been flying anyway, so using it over Libya does not incur extra costs masks a number of facts.