📖 G — The English dictionary · page 15

glum — Everyday, meaning 1: Sad and quiet, looking unhappy and disappointed.↗ Example: Why do you look so glum?↗ · Tom was glum after losing the match.↗ · The rain made everyone a bit glum.↗ · She sat glumly by the window.↗ · Cheer up, glum face!↗ · The class went glum when break was cancelled.↗ · “A dog it is,” growled the glum servant.↗

glutamate — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A natural substance found in many foods such as tomatoes, cheese and mushrooms; it gives the savoury taste called umami.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Monosodium glutamate (MSG), a salt of it added to food to make it taste more savoury.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (biology) A chemical messenger that nerve cells in the brain use to pass signals.↗ Example: Parmesan cheese is rich in natural glutamate.↗ · Monosodium glutamate is often written as MSG on packets.↗ · Glutamate gives food the savoury taste called umami.↗ · Ripe tomatoes contain more glutamate than green ones.↗ · Some crisps have glutamate added as a flavour enhancer.↗ · Your brain uses glutamate to send messages between nerve cells.↗

gluten — Everyday, meaning 1: Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye that makes dough stretchy and helps bread rise.↗ Example: Bread dough is stretchy because of gluten.↗ · My friend has coeliac disease and cannot eat gluten.↗ · This cake is gluten-free.↗ · Wheat, barley and rye contain gluten.↗ · Check the label for gluten.↗ · Rice and potatoes do not contain gluten.↗

gluteus — Everyday, meaning 1: The gluteus is one of the three big muscles in each buttock (bottom) that help you stand up, walk, run and climb; the biggest is the gluteus maximus.↗ Example: The gluteus maximus is the largest muscle in the body.↗ · Squats make your gluteus muscles stronger.↗ · The PE teacher said, «Squeeze your glutes!».↗ · The gluteus helps you climb stairs.↗ · Our science poster showed the gluteus muscles in red.↗ · Runners need strong glutes.↗ · The nurse gave the injection in the gluteus muscle.↗

glutton — Everyday, meaning 1: A glutton is a person who eats far too much and greedily.↗ Example: The glutton had devoured the whole feast at one sitting.↗ · He is such a glutton; he ate three helpings.↗ · The glutton said he was too hungry to stop.↗ · Don't be a glutton and take the last cake.↗ · For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.↗ (Writings PRO.23.21, JPS 1917)↗ · and they shall say unto the elders of his city: 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he doth not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.'↗ (Torah DEU.21.20, JPS 1917)↗

gluttonous — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Greedy for food and eating far too much.↗ Example: Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of flesh; (Writings PRO.23.20, JPS 1917)↗ · A wise son observeth the teaching; but he that is a companion of gluttonous men shameth his father.↗ (Writings PRO.28.7, JPS 1917)↗

glycerine — Everyday, meaning 1: A thick, clear, sweet-tasting liquid with no colour or smell, used in soap, medicines, cosmetics and food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) The everyday name of glycerol, a chemical made from fats and oils.↗ Example: Add a spoonful of glycerine to make bubbles that last longer.↗ · Glycerine soap is clear like glass.↗ · Mum puts glycerine on the icing so it stays soft.↗ · Some cough syrups contain glycerine.↗ · Glycerine keeps skin from drying out.↗ · In chemistry, glycerine is called glycerol.↗

glyph — Everyday, meaning 1: A glyph is a picture or symbol used as a sign for a word, a sound or an idea, like an Egyptian hieroglyph or a Maya sign.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In computers, a glyph is the shape drawn for a letter, number or symbol in a particular font.↗ Example: The Maya carved glyphs on stone to record dates and kings.↗ · Each Egyptian hieroglyph is a glyph.↗ · The archaeologist tried to read the glyph on the pot.↗ · This font has a funny glyph for the letter g.↗ · A smiley face emoji is a kind of glyph.↗ · We drew our own glyphs to write a secret message.↗

gmt — Everyday, meaning 1: GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time: the time at the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, London, used as the starting point for the world's time zones.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The time used in the UK in winter (in summer the UK uses British Summer Time, one hour ahead of GMT).↗ Example: GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time.↗ · New York is five hours behind GMT in winter.↗ · The match starts at 3 pm GMT.↗ · In summer the UK clocks go forward to BST, one hour ahead of GMT.↗ · Paris is at GMT+1 in winter.↗ · At the Royal Observatory in Greenwich you can stand on the line where GMT is measured.↗ · If it is noon GMT, it is 7 am in New York (in winter).↗

gnarled — Everyday, meaning 1: Twisted, rough and full of knots, like an old tree trunk or branch.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of hands or fingers) Bent and knobbly, often from old age or hard work.↗ Example: A gnarled old oak stood by the gate.↗ · The witch pointed a gnarled finger at the children.↗ · The gnarled roots made it hard to walk along the path.↗ · Grandad's gnarled hands still mend fishing nets.↗ · Gnarled olive trees can live for hundreds of years.↗ · The wind had twisted the tree into a gnarled shape.↗ · He called her his dryad, she said, and the tree his tree; for the grand old oak, with its gnarled trunk, was just to his taste.↗

gnash — Everyday, meaning 1: To gnash is to grind the teeth together hard, often in anger or pain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (in fairy tales) To gnash the teeth is to show rage or fear by clenching and grinding them.↗ Example: The witch began gnashing her teeth.↗ · The wolf gnashed his teeth in fury.↗ · When she saw the trap, the giant gnashed his teeth.↗ · With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.↗ (Writings PSA.35.16, JPS 1917)↗ · The wicked shall see it, and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.↗ (Writings PSA.112.10, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath torn me in His wrath, and hated me; He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth; mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.↗ (Writings JOB.16.9, JPS 1917)↗

gnat — Everyday, meaning 1: A gnat is a tiny flying insect, a bit like a very small fly, often seen in clouds near water; some kinds bite.↗ Example: A cloud of gnats hovered over the pond.↗ · I got bitten by gnats on the camping trip.↗ · Swallows swoop to catch gnats in the air.↗ · The gnat was so small it got through the window net.↗ · In the Bible, Jesus speaks of people who strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.↗ · The little gnat kept buzzing round my ear.↗ · The gnats and flies grew blithe and merry.↗ · And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast.↗ (Torah EXO.8.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'↗ (Torah EXO.8.16, JPS 1917)↗ · He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats in all their borders.↗ (Writings PSA.105.31, JPS 1917)↗

gnaw — Everyday, meaning 1: To gnaw means to bite or chew something again and again, especially something hard, like a dog with a bone or a mouse with wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If a worry or a feeling gnaws at you, it keeps bothering you for a long time.↗ Example: The dog gnawed on a bone under the table.↗ · Mice gnawed through the bag of rice.↗ · Beavers gnaw trees down to build dams.↗ · A rabbit needs things to gnaw so its teeth don't grow too long.↗ · Guilt gnawed at Sam after he broke the window.↗ · He felt a gnawing hunger on the long walk.↗ · Don't gnaw your pencil!↗ · The witch returned and began gnawing the oak again.↗ · They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.↗ (Writings JOB.30.3, JPS 1917)↗

gnome — Everyday, meaning 1: A gnome is a tiny old man in fairy tales who lives under the ground and guards treasure.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A garden gnome is a small painted statue of a bearded little man with a pointed hat, put in gardens for fun.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A small, odd-looking person (can be unkind).↗ Example: Grandma has three garden gnomes by her pond.↗ · In the story, a gnome guarded a cave of gold.↗ · The gnome had a long white beard and a red pointed hat.↗ · Someone stole our gnome and sent us photos of it on holiday!↗ · Gnomes, elves and fairies live in the magic forest of the book.↗ · I painted a little clay gnome in art class.↗ · The gnome whispered a secret to the girl.↗ · Their supernatural foe is a small gnome with a very long beard.↗

gnomon — Everyday, meaning 1: The part of a sundial that sticks up and casts the shadow that shows the time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) In geometry, the L-shaped piece left when a smaller shape is cut out of the corner of a larger similar shape, such as a square.↗ Example: The gnomon casts a shadow on the sundial.↗ · We made a sundial with a pencil as the gnomon.↗ · At noon the shadow of the gnomon is shortest.↗ · The gnomon must point north in the UK.↗ · In Australia the gnomon of a sundial points south.↗ · In maths, a gnomon is the L-shape left when you take a small square out of a big one.↗

go — Everyday, meaning 1: To go is to move from one place to another: go to school.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To go away is to leave.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To go can mean to belong or fit in a place: the cups go in the cupboard.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To go can mean to become: go red, go quiet.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A go is a turn: it's my go.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To go can mean to work or to happen: the car won't go; how did the test go?↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «Gonna» means «going to»; «go» can mean «say» (and he goes, «no way!»); «have a go» means try; «on the go» means busy; «to go» (US) means food to take away.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (rough) «Have a go at someone» (UK, Australia) means attack them with words; «Go on then!» can dare someone; «Go away», «get going» tell someone to leave.↗ Everyday, meaning 9: (euphemism) «Go» or «gone» can mean die: «when I go», «she's gone»; «go to the toilet» is said as «go» for short.↗ Everyday, meaning 10: (formal) The exam voice says «proceed», «depart», «travel», «be transferred», «be allocated to».↗ Example: When some of a group goes away, we subtract.↗ · How many stamps go in each box?↗ · 4 of the 11 children went home.↗ · We go to school by bus.↗ · The plates go on the top shelf.↗ · It's your go to throw the dice.↗ · The traffic light turned green, so the cars could go.↗ · I'm going to bake a cake.↗ · we're gonna need 2 more chairs, nan's coming↗ · and he goes, «that's mine», and I go, «no it's not»↗ · Go on then, have a go, bet you can't.↗ · Four of the 11 pupils subsequently departed the premises; state the number remaining.↗ · At first I refused to go.↗ · And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.↗ (Torah GEN.26.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep.↗ (Torah GEN.31.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And after that he will let you go.↗ (Torah EXO.3.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And they went out at noon.↗ (Prophets 1KI.20.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.↗ (Prophets 1SA.29.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.↗ (Prophets 1KI.18.45, JPS 1917)↗

goad — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) A goad is a pointed stick used to drive animals on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To goad is to push or prod someone to act, often by annoying or provoking them.↗ Example: The farmer used a goad to make the oxen move.↗ · Do not goad your brother; he will lose his temper.↗ · Children of the yoke and goad, pack and harness.↗ · And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad; and he also saved Israel.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.31, JPS 1917)↗ · The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd.↗ (Writings ECC.12.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads.↗ (Prophets 1SA.13.21, JPS 1917)↗

goal — Everyday, meaning 1: A goal is something you try to reach or do, like a goal to read 50 books.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In games like soccer, hockey and netball, a goal is the point you score by getting the ball into the net.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The goal is also the net or the posts the ball must go into.↗ Example: Mia scored 3 goals in the game.↗ · Her goal is to read 50 books.↗ · He has saved $30 toward his goal of $75.↗ · The team scored 2 goals in each half.↗ · My goal this term is to learn my times tables.↗ · The ball hit the goal post and bounced out.↗ · The goalkeeper stands in front of the goal.↗ · They reached their goal of planting 100 trees.↗ · Scoring into your own net is an own goal.↗ · Meanwhile the Tortoise kept plodding on, and in time reached the goal.↗