gal

1 United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters [syn: gallon]

2 a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)

3 alliterative term for girl (or woman)

see Gal

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æl

Etymology 1

From gallon.

gal or gal. (plural gal or gals)

1. gallon

Etymology 2

Representing a nonstandard pronunciation of girl.

Noun

1. A girl.

Etymology 3

Shortened from galileo

Noun

(symbol Gal)

1. A galileo.

Anagrams

• lag

Afrikaans

Noun

1. bile

Dutch

Noun

1. bile

Irish

Etymology

From gal < ; cf. Welsh gallu.

Pronunciation

• a Munster lang=ga|[ɡɑl̪ˠ]
• lang=ga|[ɡal̪ˠ]

Noun

1. valor
2. steam

Declension

Mutation

Norwegian

Etymology

From galinn, from gala

Adjective

1. insane; crazy; out of one's mind
2. with a very strong interest in (love, the need for speed, etc.)
3. incorrect; erroneous
4. unfortunate
5. wrong; illegal; morally reproachable

Derived terms

* stormannsgal* bilgal

• fartsgal
• guttegal
• jentegal
• sexgal* bære galt av sted
• det er aldri så galt at det ikke er godt for noe
• gå galt
• riv ruskende gal
• vill og gal

Noun

1. rooster crow (instance of)

Derived terms

• hanegal

Related terms

• nattergal

Verb

gal

1. Imperative of gale

References

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Old English

Etymology

From

Polish

Gal is usually a casual term for a woman. It can also refer to:

• Gal Costa A brazilian Bossa Nova singer.
• Gal (unit), short for Galileo Unit: one centimeter per second squared
• Gallon
• Galactose
• Gal, a town in Abkhazia
• Jenny Gal, a Dutch-Italian judoka
• Artist name of the Austrian composer and artist Bernhard Gál
• A Hebrew language given name (lit. wave)
• A Kelta origin hungarian given name (lit. chanticleer]
• Gal class submarine, Israeli Navy
• Gyaru, a type of young Japanese woman
• Gal, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Galeandra

GAL may refer to:

• Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, a Spanish death squad active in the 1980s set up to fight ETA
• Global Address List, in Microsoft Exchange
• Gatwick Airport Limited
• Generic Array Logic
• Gazi Anadolu Lisesi, a Turkish high school located at Ankara
• Generalized Automation Language
• Guardian Ad Litem

babe, baby, broad, chick, colleen, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, doll, filly, frail, girl, girlie, heifer, hoyden, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lady friend, lass, lassie, little missy, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, miss, missy, mouse, nymphet, piece, quail, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, skirt, slip, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, virgin, wench, young creature, young thing