📖 G — The English dictionary · page 24

gratifying — Everyday, meaning 1: pleasing, giving satisfaction or happiness.↗ Example: Listen to them; it is very gratifying.↗ · It is most gratifying to find oneself popular.↗ · A gratifying prize for a good deed.↗

gratis — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal or informal) Free of charge; without having to pay.↗ Example: The museum lets children in gratis.↗ · Buy one cake and get another gratis.↗ · He fixed my bike gratis because we are friends.↗ · Programs that are free to use are sometimes called gratis software.↗ · The drinks at the party were gratis.↗ · You can have this old toy gratis.↗ · The students, even those who had board and lodging gratis, left the city.↗

gratitude — Everyday, meaning 1: The feeling of being thankful and wanting to show thanks for something good someone did or gave.↗ Example: She smiled with gratitude when we helped her.↗ · We wrote letters of gratitude to the nurses.↗ · Every night I write three things in my gratitude journal.↗ · He showed his gratitude by baking us a cake.↗ · Out of gratitude, the king gave the boy a reward.↗ · Gratitude can make you feel happier.↗ · Then the man was full of gratitude.↗

gratuitously — Everyday, meaning 1: Without a good reason, in a way that is unnecessary and often unkind or shocking: gratuitously rude.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, old) Free of charge, without payment.↗ Example: The villain was gratuitously cruel to the animals.↗ · The review said the film was gratuitously violent.↗ · He was gratuitously rude to the waiter for no reason.↗ · Don't use gratuitously long words in your essay.↗ · Some games are criticised for being gratuitously gory.↗

gratuity — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A tip; extra money you give to a waiter, driver or helper to thank them for good service.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A sum of money given to a worker when they leave a job.↗ Example: A gratuity of 10% was added to the bill.↗ · The sign said «Gratuities are not expected».↗ · We left a gratuity for the hotel cleaner.↗ · The bill was $40 plus a $6 gratuity, so $46.↗ · Service and gratuity are included in the price.↗ · He received a gratuity when he left the army.↗

grave — Everyday, meaning 1: A place in the ground where a dead person is buried, often marked with a stone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Very serious and worrying: «a grave danger».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Looking serious and not smiling: «a grave face».↗ Example: We put flowers on Grandma's grave.↗ · The grave had a stone with her name on it.↗ · Walk quietly and respectfully in the graveyard.↗ · The doctor looked grave as she gave the news.↗ · Playing on the ice is a grave danger.↗ · Taking the wrong road was a grave mistake.↗ · "I'm going to my comrade's grave.↗ · And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: (Torah EXO.28.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; the same is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.↗ (Torah GEN.35.20, JPS 1917)↗ · and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.↗ (Torah GEN.44.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall Thy mercy be declared in the grave? or Thy faithfulness in destruction?↗ (Writings PSA.88.12, JPS 1917)↗ · He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their graves.↗ (Writings PSA.107.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave? — (Writings JOB.3.22, JPS 1917)↗

gravedigger — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is to dig graves in a cemetery for burying the dead.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Someone or something that brings about the end of something (figurative).↗ Example: The gravedigger worked quietly in the churchyard.↗ · Nowadays most gravediggers use small diggers.↗ · In the story the gravedigger found a strange box.↗ · The gravedigger tidied the flowers after the funeral.↗ · Being a gravedigger is hard but important work.↗ · The village gravedigger also looked after the church garden.↗ · Deirdre kept sitting on the brink of the grave, constantly asking the gravediggers to dig the pit wide and free.↗

gravel — Everyday, meaning 1: Lots of small stones and bits of rock, used for paths, driveways and roads, or found in rivers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (gravelly, of a voice) Low and rough-sounding.↗ Example: The car crunched over the gravel driveway.↗ · We put gravel at the bottom of the fish tank.↗ · I fell off my bike on the loose gravel.↗ · The river bed was covered with gravel.↗ · Gravel lets rainwater drain away.↗ · The old farm road is just gravel, not tarmac.↗ · So he trotted off to the gravel path near the house, and sat down to think.↗ · Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.↗ (Writings PRO.20.17, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.↗ (Writings LAM.3.16, JPS 1917)↗

gravelly — Everyday, meaning 1: Covered with or full of gravel (small stones).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Describing a voice: low and rough.↗ Example: We walked along the gravelly path.↗ · The giant spoke in a gravelly voice.↗ · The river bed was gravelly.↗ · Gravelly soil lets water drain away quickly.↗ · The old captain had a gravelly laugh.↗ · My bike skidded on the gravelly road.↗

gravely — Everyday, meaning 1: In a very serious way, showing that something is important or worrying.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very badly: gravely ill, gravely injured.↗ Example: «This is very important,» said the headteacher gravely.↗ · The soldier was gravely wounded.↗ · Grandad was gravely ill but he got better.↗ · She shook her head gravely.↗ · The police are gravely concerned about the missing boy.↗ · “It was Dorothy,” said the Lion gravely.↗

graven — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Carved or cut into stone, wood or metal.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: carved or cut into a hard material, such as stone or metal.↗ Example: And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.↗ (Torah EXO.32.16, JPS 1917)↗ · lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (Torah DEU.4.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.↗ (Torah EXO.39.6, JPS 1917)↗ · That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!↗ (Writings JOB.19.24, JPS 1917)↗ · For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.↗ (Writings PSA.78.58, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me.↗ (Prophets ISA.49.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.↗ (Torah EXO.32.16, JPS 1917) · lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,↗ (Torah DEU.4.16, JPS 1917) · And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.↗ (Torah EXO.39.6, JPS 1917)

graver — Everyday, meaning 1: Graver means more serious or more worrying: a graver danger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A graver is a sharp tool for cutting lines into metal, wood or stone (an engraving tool).↗ Example: The flood was a graver danger than the wind.↗ · The doctor's face grew graver.↗ · Nothing could be graver than lying under oath.↗ · The artist cut the lines with a graver.↗ · The situation is graver than we thought.↗ · Lying would only make things graver.↗ · For she had also been wise, and lack-ing her guidance, all grave affairs seemed graver, shadowing each day and going with him to the pillow at night.↗

gravestone — Everyday, meaning 1: A stone put on a grave, with the name of the person buried there and words about them.↗ Example: We read the names on the old gravestones in the churchyard.↗ · The gravestone was covered in moss.↗ · Flowers were left by the gravestone.↗ · Some gravestones have carved angels.↗ · Her gravestone said «A loving mother».↗ · The class drew rubbings of the gravestones.↗

graveyard — Everyday, meaning 1: A graveyard is a piece of land, often around a church, where dead people are buried.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A graveyard is a place where old, broken or unwanted things are left: «a car graveyard», «an elephant graveyard».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Graveyard shift» means work done late at night until morning (informal).↗ Example: The old church has a graveyard with mossy stones.↗ · We visited Grandad's grave in the graveyard.↗ · Please walk quietly and respectfully in a graveyard.↗ · The ghost story was set in a graveyard at midnight.↗ · Old aeroplanes are kept in a desert graveyard.↗ · Nurses on the graveyard shift work all night.↗ · His road lay in front of a graveyard.↗

gravitation — Everyday, meaning 1: Gravitation is the force by which everything with mass pulls on everything else; it keeps us on the ground and the Moon going round the Earth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Gravitation can mean moving towards something or being drawn to it, like a gravitation of people towards cities.↗ Example: Gravitation keeps the planets moving round the Sun.↗ · Newton wrote about the law of gravitation.↗ · Gravitation pulls the apple down to the ground.↗ · The Moon's gravitation causes the tides.↗ · Everything has gravitation, even you and me, but it is tiny.↗ · Bigger objects have stronger gravitation.↗ · There was a gravitation of families towards the new park.↗ · Astronauts float because they are falling around the Earth, not because gravitation stops.↗

gravitational — Everyday, meaning 1: Gravitational means about gravity, the force that pulls things towards each other, like objects falling to the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used in science to describe the pull of planets, stars and the Moon.↗ Example: The Moon's gravitational pull causes tides.↗ · Earth's gravitational force keeps us on the ground.↗ · Jupiter has a very strong gravitational pull.↗ · Astronauts float because they are falling around Earth in its gravitational field.↗ · Black holes have huge gravitational fields.↗ · Gravitational force is measured in newtons.↗

gravity — Everyday, meaning 1: The force that pulls things towards each other, especially the pull of the Earth that makes things fall and gives them weight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Seriousness: «the gravity of the situation» (formal).↗ Example: Gravity makes the ball fall back down.↗ · The Moon's gravity is weaker than Earth's.↗ · Gravity keeps the planets moving around the Sun.↗ · Without gravity we would float away.↗ · Isaac Newton studied gravity.↗ · Water flows downhill because of gravity.↗ · Astronauts feel almost weightless in space.↗ · A low centre of gravity helps you balance.↗

gravy — Everyday, meaning 1: Gravy is a hot brown sauce made from the juices of cooked meat, often thickened with flour, poured over meat, potatoes and other food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the southern USA, gravy can also be a white creamy sauce served with biscuits.↗ Example: Please pass the gravy.↗ · Grandma made gravy from the juices of the roast chicken.↗ · I like mashed potatoes with lots of gravy.↗ · The gravy was too thick, so Dad added some water.↗ · We put the gravy in a little jug called a gravy boat.↗ · Poutine is chips with cheese curds and gravy.↗ · Be careful: hot gravy can burn your tongue.↗

gray — Everyday, meaning 1: Gray is the colour between black and white, like ash or rain clouds.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Gray describes dull, cloudy weather or a dull, boring feeling.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To gray (of hair) means to turn gray with age.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A gray area is something not clearly right or wrong.↗ Example: The sky was gray and it started to rain.↗ · Mix black and white to make gray.↗ · Grandpa's hair is turning gray.↗ · An elephant is gray.↗ · Use your gray matter — think!↗ · Whether that is cheating is a gray area.↗ · It was so gray and old.↗ · Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.↗ (Torah DEU.32.25, JPS 1917)↗ · and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.↗ (Torah GEN.44.29, JPS 1917)↗ · it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.↗ (Torah GEN.44.31, JPS 1917)↗ · With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.↗ (Writings JOB.15.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.↗ (Prophets HOS.7.9, JPS 1917)↗

graze — Everyday, meaning 1: To graze is when animals like cows, sheep and horses eat grass in a field.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To graze your skin is to scrape it a little, like a knee when you fall.↗ A graze is that small scrape.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To graze can also mean to touch something lightly as you pass.↗ Example: 12 cows graze in the field.↗ · 5 more sheep came to graze.↗ · The horses graze for 6 hours a day.↗ · How many animals graze on the hill now?↗ · Deer graze at the edge of the forest at dawn.↗ · She fell off her bike and grazed her knee.↗ · Wash the graze and put a plaster on it.↗ · The ball grazed the top of the net.↗

grease — Everyday, meaning 1: Grease is a thick, oily substance used to make machine parts move smoothly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Grease is soft animal fat, especially after cooking, like bacon grease.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Grease is oil on skin or hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To grease something is to put fat, butter or oil on it, like greasing a cake tin.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (slang) «Grease someone's palm» means to bribe them.↗ Example: Grease the tin with butter before you pour in the mix.↗ · The bike chain needs some grease.↗ · The pan was covered in bacon grease.↗ · It took a lot of elbow grease to clean the oven.↗ · Grease reduces friction between the moving parts.↗ · His hands were black with grease after fixing the car.↗ · Soap helps wash grease off plates.↗ · Put some bear’s grease on your beard and that will soon make it grow again.’↗