(n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
(2) Individual males held in gallon-sized containers inseminated as many as 10 females.
(3) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(4) Already the price of petrol has risen to at least $3.50 a gallon (94 cents a litre) – just over double Sunday's morning price of about $1.70 a gallon (45 cents a litre).
(5) A major 1970 oil spill in Ogoniland in the south-east of Nigeria led to thousands of gallons being spilt on farmland and rivers, ultimately leading to a £26m fine for Shell in Nigerian courts 30 years later .
(6) Satellite data, analysed by University of California at Irvine scientists, suggest that the state has been losing about 4tn gallons of water a year from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins since the drought began in 2011.
(7) His shop was destroyed by water damage What destroyed my business completely was not the fire [next door] but the gallons and gallons of water which the fire brigade poured over the building.
(8) They replied that an average day’s drilling uses about 1,000 gallons of diesel.
(9) 25.4 cm) fiberglass depth cartridge and a 10-inch pleated epoxy-fiberglass filter in a series at flow rates of up to 37.8 liters (10 gallons) per min.
(10) "And just as cars will go further on a gallon of gas, our economy will go further on a barrel of oil."
(11) That's barely a quarter of the average daily use in the US , a global water-hog that uses nearly 500 gallons a day per capita (or nearly 600 US gallons).
(12) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
(13) But the bigger question is why in a shortsighted attempt to reduce greenhouse gases by a tiny amount (diesel cars do more miles to the gallon) the risks were ignored, and customers persuaded that diesel cars were actually greener.
(14) That's barely a quarter of the average daily use in the US, a global water-hog that uses nearly 500 gallons a day per capita."
(15) The helicopters can haul up to 2,000 gallons of water.
(16) The nationwide average price of a gallon of regular is now $2.02 (£1.36), down 58 cents from this time last year, according to auto club AAA, and expected to fall further.
(17) The response of microorganisms to an accidental spillage of 55,000 gallons of leaded gasoline into an Arctic freshwater lake was studied.
(18) They could have taken a thousand gallons of water and just intercepted the fire before it got to my place.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Belles stands on a scorched hill overlooking his concrete dome house.
(19) A 14-year-old male drank two glasses of milk from a gallon inoculated with 21 vials of live virus vaccine intended to immunize 1000 baby chicks against Newcastle Disease.
(20) The plaintiffs claim Chevron's operations discharged billions of gallons of toxic waste into Amazon lands, affecting over 1,500 square miles of the Amazon, causing cancer rates to soar, destroying locals' livelihoods and habitats, and killing flora and fauna.
Gallop
Definition:
(v. i.) To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
(v. i.) To ride a horse at a gallop.
(v. i.) Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
(v. t.) To cause to gallop.
(v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
(2) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
(3) The maximum distance galloped daily, which was in period 4, was repeated in period 5.
(4) We contacted Tim and his advisers immediately when we heard he was not going to be part of Shanghai any longer,” Gallop said.
(5) A second example of a compromise of VA is that of a galloping racehorse at very high workloads.
(6) In the second half Gerrard found much more freedom, bombing forward with a familiar gallop and linking up more effectively with his team-mates.
(7) Patients who died suddenly and those survived were similar in respect to age (60, 62 years), sex, location of infarction, presence of coronary risk factors, severity of acute myocardial infarction (Q waves, cardiac enzymes), serum cholesterol levels, evidence of cardiomegaly on roentgenograms, presence of ventricular gallop and drug therapy received.
(8) Certainly it has the feeling of a circus act - riding two galloping horses in front of everyone.
(9) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
(10) From where he stood, the Real Madrid coach watched in awe as barely metres away Gareth Bale started the sprint that ended with him scoring what he admitted was the "biggest" goal of his career: a 50-metre gallop that won the Copa del Rey for Real Madrid .
(11) Following an initial maintenance period without forced exercise, workload was increased in succeeding 18-d periods by doubling the distance the horses were galloped in each period from period 2 through 4.
(12) A fine period of passing is undone by a brainless gallop forwards by Kebe, who just knocks the ball into the nearest defender.
(13) The Argentinian raced on to a ball on the right of the area and chipped it inside, where Maicon came galloping in to bundle home at the second attempt.
(14) The timing interval between the onset of knee extensor EMG (vastus lateralis) and the onset of the ipsilateral elbow flexor EMG (brachialis) was studied in adult cats during overground walking, trotting and galloping.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lakota youth riders of the “Horse Nation” gallop bareback at Standing Rock.
(16) The chief executive of Football Federation Australia, David Gallop, told local media it had been involved in interviews and the production of documents.
(17) Hence his eventual nickname, the Galloping Major, though like most such "army" footballers, he was seldom to be seen on parade.
(18) A protodiastolic gallop proved to be a relative specific but insensitive sign of poor ventricular function.
(19) 12.53pm GMT 8 min: With Manchester City attacking down the inside right, David Silva slides a lovely pass through to Pablo Zabaleta, who was galloping up the touchline on the overlap.
(20) In the London agencies where she worked in the 80s, overt sexism was rife, but Gallop says she didn’t notice “because that was the way things were.