gavel
1: a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
Gavia
1: type genus of the Gavidae: loons [syn: {genus Gavia}]
gavial
1: large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout [syn: {Gavialis gangeticus}]
Gavialis
1: type genus of the Gavialidae [syn: {genus Gavialis}]
Gavialis gangeticus
1: large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout [syn: {gavial}]
Gavidae
1: loon family [syn: {family Gavidae}]
Gaviiformes
1: large aquatic birds: loons and some extinct forms [syn: {order Gaviiformes}]
gavotte
1: an old formal French dance in quadruple time 2: music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
Gawain
1: (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table [syn: {Sir Gawain}]
gawk
1: an awkward stupid person [syn: {lout}, {clod}, {stumblebum}, {goon}, {oaf}, {lubber}, {lummox}, {lump}] v : look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: {goggle}, {gape}, {gawp}]
gawkiness
1: the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant [syn: {ungainliness}]
gawky
1: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" [syn: {clumsy}...
gawp
1: look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: {goggle}, {gape}, {gawk}]
gay
1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: {cheery}, {sunny}] 2: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were yo...
gay lib
1: the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression [syn: {gay liberation movement}]
gay liberation movement
1: the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression [syn: {gay lib}]
gay man
1: a homosexual man [syn: {shirtlifter}]
gay woman
1: a female homosexual [syn: {lesbian}, {tribade}]
gay-feather
1: any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads [syn: {blazing star}, {button snakeroot}, {gayfeather}, {snakeroot}]
Gay-Lussac
1: French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850) [syn: {Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac}]
Gay-Lussac's law
1: (physics) the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the temperature [syn: {Charles's law}, {law of volumes}]
gayal
1: ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur [syn: {mithan}, {Bibos frontalis}]
gayfeather
1: any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads [syn: {blazing star}, {button snakeroot}, {gay-feather}, {snakeroot}]
Gaylussacia
1: deciduous or evergreen shrubs of North America: black huckleberries [syn: {genus Gaylussacia}]
Gaylussacia baccata
1: low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries [syn: {black huckleberry}]
Gaylussacia brachycera
1: creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries [syn: {box huckleberry}]
Gaylussacia frondosa
1: huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit [syn: {dangleberry}, {dangle-berry}]
gayly
1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: {happily}, {merrily}, {mirthfully}, {blithely}, {jubilantly}, {with happiness}] [ant: {unhappily}]
gayness
1: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex [syn: {homosexuality}, {homosexualism}, {homoeroticism}]
gaywings
1: common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals [syn: {flowering wintergreen}, {bird-on-the-wing}, {fri...
Gaza
1: a coastal region at the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean bordering Israel and Egypt; "he is a Palestinian from Gaza" [syn: {Gaza Strip}]
Gaza Strip
1: a coastal region at the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean bordering Israel and Egypt; "he is a Palestinian from Gaza" [syn: {Gaza}]
gazania
1: any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers
Gazania rigens
1: decumbent South African perennial with short densely leafy stems and orange flower rays with black eyespots at base [syn: {treasure flower}]
gaze
1: a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me" [syn: {regard}] v : look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement" [syn: {stare}]
gazebo
1: a small roofed building affording shade and rest [syn: {summerhouse}] [also: {gazeboes} (pl)]
Gazella
1: typical gazelles [syn: {genus Gazella}]
Gazella thomsoni
1: East African gazelle; the smallest gazelle [syn: {Thomson's gazelle}]
gazelle
1: small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
gazelle hound
1: old breed of tall swift keen-eyed hunting dogs resembling greyhounds; from Egypt and southwestern Asia [syn: {Saluki}]
gazette
1: a newspaper or official journal v : publish in a gazette
gazetteer
1: a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
gazpacho
1: a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold
gazump
1: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: {overcharge}, {soak}, {surcharge}, {fleece}, {plume}, {pluck}, {rob}, {hook}] [ant: {undercharge}] 2: raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower...
GB
1: a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase [syn: {sarin}] 2: a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns [syn: {gilbert}, {Gi}] 3: a unit of inf...
GBU-28
1: a 5,000 pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding; used to penetrate hardened underground faccilities [syn: {Bunker Buster}, {Guided Bomb Unit-28...
Gc
1: 1,000,000,000 periods per second [syn: {gigahertz}, {GHz}, {gigacycle per second}, {gigacycle}]
GCA
1: aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar [syn: {ground-controlled approach}]
GD
1: a nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled [syn: {soman}] 2: a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic e...
Gdansk
1: a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century [syn: {Danzig}]
GDP
1: measure of the United States economy adopted in 1991; the total market values of goods and services by produced by workers and capital within the United States borders during a given period (usuall...
Ge
1: a brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite [syn: {germanium}, {atomic number 32}] 2: (Greek m...
gean
1: wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting [syn: {mazzard}, {mazzard cherry}]
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gear
1: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion [syn: {gear wheel}, {cogwheel}] 2: a mechanism for transmitting motion by gear...
gear case
1: the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed [syn: {gearbox}]
gear lever
1: a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in England they call a gearshift a gear lever" [syn: {gearshift}, {gearstick}, {shifter}]
gear mechanism
1: a mechanism for transmitting motion by gears for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) [syn: {gear}]
gear up
1: make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid th...
gear wheel
1: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion [syn: {gear}, {cogwheel}]
gearbox
1: the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed [syn: {gear case}]
geared
1: equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged [ant: {ungeared}]
gearing
1: wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: {gears}, {geartrain}, {p...
gears
1: wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: {gearing}, {geartrain}, ...
gearshift
1: a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in England they call a gearshift a gear lever" [syn: {gearstick}, {shifter}, {gear lever}]
gearstick
1: a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in England they call a gearshift a gear lever" [syn: {gearshift}, {shifter}, {gear lever}]
geartrain
1: wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: {gearing}, {gears}, {pow...
Geastraceae
1: a family of earthstar fungi belonging to the order Lycoperdales [syn: {family Geastraceae}]
Geastrum
1: type genus of Geastraceae; fungi whose outer peridium when dry splits into starlike segments [syn: {genus Geastrum}]
Geastrum coronatum
1: an earthstar with a bluish spore sac and a purplish brown gleba; at maturity the outer layer splits into rays that bend backward and elevate the spore sac
Geb
1: Egyptian god of the earth; father of Osiris and Isis [syn: {Keb}]
gebang palm
1: large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers [syn: {Corypha utan}, {Corypha gebanga}]
gecko
1: any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless [also: {geckoes} (pl)]
gee
1: a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated [syn: {g}, {g-force}] v 1: turn to the right side; "the horse g...
gee-gee
1: a word for horse used by children or in adult slang
geebung
1: any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits
geek
1: a carnival performer who does disgusting acts 2: a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: {eccentric}, {eccentric person}, {flake}, {oddball}]
Geert Geerts
1: Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luth...
geezer
1: a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric [syn: {bloke}]
geezerhood
1: a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" [syn: {old age}, {years}, {a...
gefilte fish
1: well-seasoned balls of ground fish and eggs and crushed crumbs simmered in fish stock [syn: {fish ball}]
gegenschein
1: a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space [syn: {counterglow}]
Gehenna
1: a place where the wicked are punished after death [syn: {Tartarus}]
Gehrig
1: baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941) [syn: {Lou Gehrig}, {Henry Louis Gehrig}]
Geiger
1: German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945) [syn: {Hans Geiger}]
Geiger counter
1: counter tube that detects ionizing radiations [syn: {Geiger-Muller counter}]
Geiger tube
1: an ionization chamber contained in a tube in a Geiger counter [syn: {Geiger-Muller tube}]
Geiger-Muller tube
1: an ionization chamber contained in a tube in a Geiger counter [syn: {Geiger tube}]
Geisel
1: United States writer of children's books (1904-1991) [syn: {Theodor Seuss Geisel}, {Dr. Seuss}]
geisha
1: a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing [syn: {geisha girl}]
geisha girl
1: a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing [syn: {geisha}]
gel
1: a colloid in a more solid form than a sol [syn: {colloidal gel}] 2: a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects [syn: {gelatin}] v 1: become a gel; "The solid, when heated,...
gelatin
1: a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin [syn: {gelatine}] 2: an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or sal...
gelatin dessert
1: jellied dessert made with gelatin and fruit juice or water
gelatine
1: a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin [syn: {gelatin}]
gelatinise
1: become gelatinous or change into a jelly; "the starch gelatinized when it was heated" [syn: {gelatinize}] 2: convert into gelatinous form or jelly; "hot water will gelatinize starch" [syn: {gelatin...
gelatinize
1: coat with gelatin 2: become gelatinous or change into a jelly; "the starch gelatinized when it was heated" [syn: {gelatinise}] 3: convert into gelatinous form or jelly; "hot water will gelatinize s...
gelatinlike
1: thick like gelatin [syn: {gelatinous}, {jellylike}]
gelatinous
1: thick like gelatin [syn: {gelatinlike}, {jellylike}]
gelatinousness
1: the property of having a viscosity like jelly [syn: {glutinosity}, {glutinousness}]
geld
1: cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses); "the vet gelded the young horse" [syn: {cut}] [also: {gelt}]
gelded
1: (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut horse" [syn: {cut}, {emasculated}]
Gelechia
1: type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms [syn: {genus Gelechia}]
Gelechia gossypiella
1: larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia; feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls [syn: {pink bollworm}] 2: small brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton
gelechiid
1: small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests [syn: {gelechiid moth}]
gelechiid moth
1: small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests [syn: {gelechiid}]
Gelechiidae
1: important economic pests [syn: {family Gelechiidae}]
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