gale
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(dialectal, intransitive)(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
- 2.
(dialectal, intransitive)(intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
- 3.
(dialectal, transitive)(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.
- 4.
(nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
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noun- 1.
(meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
It's blowing a gale outside.
Many parts of the boat were damaged in the gale.
With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a few months. But on arrival there, friends told my brother that the Indian Ocean was rough in June and July, and as this was my first voyage, I should not be allowed to sail until November. Someone also reported that a steamer had just been sunk in a gale. This made my brother uneasy, and he refused to take the risk of allowing me to sail immediately.
- 2.
An outburst, especially of laughter.
a gale of laughter
- 3.
(archaic, literary)A light breeze.
- 4.
A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
- 5.
(archaic)A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
- 6.
The personal mining plot of a freeminer.
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ine-pro From Middle English galen, from Old English galan, from Proto-Germanic *galaną (to roop, sing, charm), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (to shout, scream, charm away). Cognate with gale to crow, gala to crow, gala, galm. Related to yell.