📖 G — The English dictionary · page 3

gambol — Everyday, meaning 1: To gambol is to skip, jump and play about happily, like a lamb or kitten.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A gambol is a playful leap or jump (noun).↗ Example: The lambs gambolled in the field.↗ · The puppy gambolled round the garden.↗ · The children gambolled on the sand.↗ · Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder My heritage, because ye gambol as a heifer at grass, and neigh as strong horses; (Prophets JER.50.11, JPS 1917)↗ · But unto you that fear My name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.↗ (Prophets MAL.3.20, JPS 1917)↗

game — Everyday, meaning 1: A game is something you play for fun with rules, like football, chess or tag.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A game is one match: «We won the game 3–1».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Games can mean a big sports event: the Olympic Games.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Game is wild animals hunted for food.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To be game is to be willing to try.↗ Example: The team played 22 games.↗ · They won 12 games.↗ · He has 15 video games.↗ · She scored 18 points in the game.↗ · Let's play a board game.↗ · We played a maths game in class.↗ · It's only a game, so be a good loser.↗ · Are you game for a swim?↗ · Suddenly he tried the guessing game.↗

gamekeeper — Everyday, meaning 1: A gamekeeper is a person whose job is to look after wild animals and birds kept for hunting on a large estate.↗ Example: The gamekeeper walked his dogs through the woods.↗ · The gamekeeper caught the poacher.↗ · The lord hired a new gamekeeper.↗

gamma — Everyday, meaning 1: Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet, written γ (small) and Γ (capital), after alpha and beta.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Gamma rays are very powerful, invisible rays given off by radioactive materials and by explosions in space; they can harm living things.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gamma is used as a label for the third thing in a list, after alpha and beta.↗ Example: Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet.↗ · Alpha, beta, gamma, delta.↗ · Gamma rays are stronger than X-rays.↗ · Hospitals use gamma rays to kill germs on equipment.↗ · In the comic, the hero was hit by gamma rays.↗ · We labelled the third angle gamma.↗ · Thick lead blocks stop gamma rays.↗ · Gamma rays come from exploding stars.↗

gamut — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: the whole range of something, from one end to the other.↗

gander — Everyday, meaning 1: An adult male goose.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, UK, Australia) A quick look: have a gander at this.↗ Example: The gander hissed and chased us away from the goslings.↗ · A goose lays the eggs, and the gander guards the nest.↗ · Come and have a gander at my new bike!↗ · Mum took a gander at the menu and ordered chips.↗ · The farmer keeps one gander and six geese.↗ · «What's good for the goose is good for the gander,» said Dad, so I could stay up late too.↗ · Have a gander out the window, it's snowing!↗ · He was thinking these thoughts, when two young ganders caught sight of him as they were having their evening splash among the reeds, looking for their supper.↗

gang — Everyday, meaning 1: A gang is a group of friends who spend time together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A gang is a group of criminals or of young people who cause trouble or fights.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A gang is a group of workers doing a job together.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To gang up on someone is to join together against one person.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In Scottish speech, gang means to go.↗ Example: The whole gang came to my birthday party.↗ · A gang of robbers stole the jewels.↗ · It's not fair to gang up on one person.↗ · The gang built a den in the woods.↗ · A gang of workers repaired the railway.↗ · The police arrested the gang leader.↗ · If older kids pressure you to join a gang, tell a trusted adult.↗

gangster — Everyday, meaning 1: A gangster is a member of a gang of violent criminals who break the law to get money or power.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang) Gangster, or «gangsta», is sometimes used by young people to mean someone who acts tough or cool.↗ Example: The police arrested the gangster at the airport.↗ · The film is about a gangster in old Chicago.↗ · The gangsters hid the stolen money in a warehouse.↗ · My brother thinks he looks like a gangster in his sunglasses.↗ (slang, joking)↗ · Gangsters often threaten shopkeepers for money.↗ · The detective finally caught the gangster boss.↗ · Real gangsters are dangerous, not glamorous.↗

gangway — Everyday, meaning 1: A movable bridge or ramp for walking between a ship and the land.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) A passage between rows of seats, in a theatre, bus or plane; in the US an aisle.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (interjection, informal) «Gangway!» means «Move out of the way, I'm coming through!».↗ Example: The passengers walked up the gangway onto the ship.↗ · Please keep the gangways clear.↗ · «Gangway!» shouted the porter, pushing a trolley of bags.↗ · The sailors pulled up the gangway and the ship set sail.↗ · The Sea Rat strode down the gangway into the port.↗ · Don't leave your bag in the gangway on the bus.↗

gannet — Everyday, meaning 1: A large white seabird with black wing tips and a yellowish head that dives from high up into the sea to catch fish.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, informal) A greedy person who eats a lot, very fast.↗ Example: A gannet can dive into the sea at almost 100 kilometres per hour.↗ · Thousands of gannets nest on Bass Rock in Scotland.↗ · We watched gannets plunge into the waves to catch mackerel.↗ · You ate all the biscuits, you gannet!↗ · My brother is a real gannet at birthday parties.↗ · New Zealand has a big gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers.↗ · The gannet's air sacs protect it when it hits the water.↗

gaol — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, old spelling) A prison; a jail.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To put someone in prison.↗ Example: Toad was thrown into gaol.↗ · The old gaol is now a museum.↗ · He was gaoled for stealing horses.↗ · The gaoler locked the gaol at night.↗ · In the past, people could be sent to gaol for owing money.↗ · We visited the Old Melbourne Gaol on a school trip.↗

gaoler — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, old spelling) A person whose job is to guard prisoners in a prison; a jailer or prison officer.↗ Example: The old gaoler jangled his keys outside Toad's cell.↗ · The gaoler's daughter brought Toad hot buttered toast and tea.↗ · The gaoler locked the heavy door and walked away.↗ · Long ago the gaoler lived in a small house beside the gaol.↗ · The gaoler counted the prisoners every evening.↗ · In the story, the gaoler never noticed that Toad had gone.↗ · The gaoler of the castle was a grumpy man with a lantern.↗ · Luckily her gaoler was away, always trying to catch the stud of mares, so for the moment she was free and alone.↗

gap — Everyday, meaning 1: A gap is an empty space or opening between two things: a gap in a fence, a gap between your teeth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A gap is a difference between two amounts or groups: «the gap between the scores».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A gap is a time when something stops: «a gap of two weeks».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A gap in what you know is a part you have not learned yet.↗ Example: There are 4 gaps between 5 trees.↗ · Each gap is 3 metres.↗ · The gap between the two scores is 12 points.↗ · How many gaps are in a fence with 8 posts?↗ · The dog got out through a gap in the fence.↗ · «Mind the gap» means watch the space between the train and the platform.↗ · Fill the gaps in the sentences with the right words.↗ · She has a gap where her front tooth fell out.↗ · They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully; they gather themselves together against me.↗ (Writings JOB.16.10, JPS 1917)↗

gape — Everyday, meaning 1: To stare with your mouth wide open, because you are surprised or amazed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be or become wide open: a hole gaped in the wall.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A wide-open mouth or a wide opening; in birds, the width of the open beak.↗ Example: We gaped at the giant whale skeleton in the museum.↗ · The children gaped when the magician vanished.↗ · A huge hole gaped in the road after the flood.↗ · Don't just stand there gaping, help me!↗ · The baby birds gaped, waiting for worms.↗ · A snake's gape lets it swallow an egg whole.↗ · There was a gaping hole in the fence where the cow got out.↗ · The gape of his enormous jaws was nearly as wide as the gateway of the king's palace.↗

gar — Everyday, meaning 1: A gar is a long, thin fish with a narrow snout full of sharp teeth, such as the North American gar of rivers and lakes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the UK and Australia, «garfish» is a long thin sea fish with a beak-like jaw.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «gar» is also a short piece of words like «garden» or «cigar».↗ Example: The alligator gar has a mouth like a crocodile.↗ · A gar can breathe air at the surface.↗ · Gars have tough, armour-like scales.↗ · We saw a garfish in the harbour.↗ · The gar waited still among the weeds.↗ · Some gars grow longer than a grown-up.↗

garage — Everyday, meaning 1: A garage is a building or a room next to a house where a car is kept.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A garage is also a place where cars are fixed, and in the UK and Ireland a place that sells petrol.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A parking garage is a big building with levels where many cars park.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A garage sale is when a family sells old things in front of their home.↗ Example: The garage holds 2 cars.↗ · A parking garage has 5 levels with 40 cars on each.↗ · They sold toys at a garage sale for 1 dollar each.↗ · The garage is 6 metres long.↗ · Dad keeps our bikes in the garage.↗ · Mum took the car to the garage because it made a funny noise.↗ · Close the garage door when you leave.↗ · We stopped at a garage to fill up with petrol.↗

garb — Everyday, meaning 1: Garb is clothing, especially a particular kind or style of dress.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Garb can mean the outward look of something, as in «spring garb».↗ Example: She wore her red garb for the festival.↗ · The soldiers were dressed in dark garb.↗ · The trees put on their spring garb.↗

garbage — Everyday, meaning 1: (mainly US, Canada) Rubbish; food waste and other things you throw away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Nonsense; things that are untrue or very bad.↗ e.g. That film was garbage.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computers) Useless or meaningless data.↗ Example: It's your turn to take out the garbage.↗ · The garbage truck comes on Tuesdays.↗ · Put the banana peel in the garbage.↗ · Don't talk garbage — of course you can do it!↗ · We sorted the garbage into paper, plastic and food.↗ · A family throws away about 20 kg of garbage a week.↗

garden — Everyday, meaning 1: A garden is a piece of land where people grow flowers, fruit or vegetables.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand the garden is also the grass area around a house; Americans often call it the yard.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gardens are also a public park with plants, like botanical gardens.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To garden is to work in a garden, planting, weeding and watering.↗ Example: The garden has 6 rows of 8 tomato plants.↗ · A garden is 10 m long and 4 m wide.↗ · She picked 25 carrots from her garden.↗ · How much fence goes around the garden?↗ · Our school has a garden where we grow beans.↗ · Grandpa loves gardening on Saturdays.↗ · The kids played football in the back garden.↗ · We visited the botanic gardens and saw huge cactuses.↗ · And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; (Torah GEN.2.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; (Torah GEN.3.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.↗ (Torah GEN.2.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his precious fruits.↗ (Writings SNG.4.16, JPS 1917)↗ · He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.↗ (Writings JOB.8.16, JPS 1917)↗ · A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.↗ (Writings SNG.4.12, JPS 1917)↗

gardener — Everyday, meaning 1: A gardener is a person who looks after a garden and its plants, as a job or for fun.↗ Example: The gardener plants 6 rows of 9 roses.↗ · 3 gardeners mow the lawn.↗ · The gardener picks 40 apples.↗ · Each gardener earns $50 a day.↗ · The gardener pulled up the weeds.↗ · Grandpa is a keen gardener and grows his own tomatoes.↗ · The gardener waters the plants every evening.↗ · In the story, an old gardener kept the key to the secret garden.↗ · "What do you mean?" asked the gardener.↗

garfish — Everyday, meaning 1: A long, thin fish with a narrow beak-like jaw full of sharp teeth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Australia, New Zealand) A similar slim fish called a halfbeak, popular for eating and fishing.↗ Example: A garfish has a long pointed beak.↗ · The garfish swam fast near the surface.↗ · We caught garfish off the jetty in Adelaide.↗ · Garfish have green bones, which surprises people.↗ · The fisherman sold fresh garfish at the market.↗ · A shoal of garfish flashed in the sunlight.↗