📖 G — The English dictionary · page 33

gunk — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Any thick, sticky, dirty or slimy stuff that you do not want, such as grease in a drain or goo on a shoe.↗ Example: The plughole was full of gunk.↗ · What's this green gunk on my shoe?↗ · Dad cleaned the gunk out of the bike chain.↗ · The pond was covered in slimy gunk.↗ · Old food gunked up the sink.↗ · Wipe the gunk off the keyboard.↗

gunman — Everyday, meaning 1: A man who uses a gun to hurt people or commit a crime.↗ Example: Police arrested the gunman after the robbery.↗ · The gunman ran away before the police came.↗ · In the film, the cowboy faced the gunman.↗ · The news said a gunman had held up the bank.↗ · Nobody was hurt, and the gunman was caught.↗ · The gunman wore a mask.↗

gunpowder — Everyday, meaning 1: Gunpowder is a black powder that explodes when lit, made from saltpetre, charcoal and sulphur; it was used in old guns and cannons and is still used in fireworks.↗ Example: Gunpowder was invented in ancient China.↗ · Guy Fawkes hid barrels of gunpowder under Parliament.↗ · We remember the Gunpowder Plot on Bonfire Night.↗ · Fireworks use a kind of gunpowder to shoot into the sky.↗ · Pirates kept their gunpowder dry in the ship's hold.↗ · Gunpowder is a mixture of saltpetre, charcoal and sulphur.↗ · Never play with fireworks or anything that contains gunpowder.↗ · The cannon fired with a bang and a puff of gunpowder smoke.↗ · The air was cold, the battle was hot; there was mist in the air, but still more gunpowder-smoke.↗

gur — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A place name in the Bible, "the ascent of Gur" near Ibleam; also part of the name Gur-baal.↗ Example: And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.↗ (Writings 2CH.26.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jehu followed after him, and said: 'Smite him also in the chariot'; and they smote him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam.↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.27, JPS 1917)↗

gurgle — Everyday, meaning 1: To gurgle means for water or liquid to make a bubbling sound as it flows, like water going down a drain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A baby gurgles when it makes happy bubbling sounds in its throat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A gurgle is such a bubbling sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An animal, such as an elephant, can gurgle by making a low sound deep in its throat.↗ Example: The stream gurgled over the stones.↗ · The baby gurgled and smiled at me.↗ · Water gurgled down the plughole.↗ · My tummy gurgled before lunch.↗ · We heard the gurgle of a little brook.↗ · She gurgled with laughter.↗ · Kala Nag did not answer to the order by gurgling, as he usually did.↗

guru — Everyday, meaning 1: (religion) In Hinduism and Sikhism, a guru is a holy teacher and guide; Sikhs honour ten human Gurus and their holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A guru is an expert that others go to for advice, like "a computer guru" or "a fitness guru".↗ Example: Guru Nanak was the first Sikh Guru.↗ · The Guru Granth Sahib is treated with great respect.↗ · My uncle is a computer guru who fixes everything.↗ · The class's spelling guru helped me with "necessary".↗ · The fitness guru on the video said to drink lots of water.↗ · Some internet gurus give bad advice, so check what they say.↗

gush — Everyday, meaning 1: For a liquid to flow out suddenly and fast in large amounts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A gush is a sudden fast flow: a gush of water.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To talk with too much praise or excitement about something, in a way that can sound silly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Things such as flowers can gush up, meaning they spring up quickly in large numbers.↗ Example: Water gushed out of the broken pipe.↗ · Oil gushed from the well.↗ · A gush of cold air came in when the door opened.↗ · She gushed about how wonderful the film was.↗ · Tears gushed down his cheeks.↗ · The river gushes over the rocks after rain.↗ · The violets gushed up along the wayside.↗ · They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.↗ (Writings PSA.94.4, JPS 1917)↗ · He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.↗ (Writings PSA.105.41, JPS 1917)↗ · And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with swords and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.↗ (Prophets 1KI.18.28, JPS 1917)↗

gust — Everyday, meaning 1: A sudden strong rush of wind.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sudden burst of something, like rain, smoke or laughter.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) Of wind: to blow in sudden strong bursts.↗ Example: A gust of wind blew my hat into the pond.↗ · The door slammed shut in a sudden gust.↗ · Winds gusted up to 80 kilometres an hour.↗ · A strong gust knocked over the bins.↗ · Hold your kite string tight in the gusts.↗ · A gust of laughter came from the next room.↗ · Be careful cycling on bridges on gusty days.↗ · The candle went out in a gust from the window.↗ · A gust of wind swept through the foliage, and the leaves fell in a shower.↗

gusty — Everyday, meaning 1: Gusty weather has wind that blows in sudden strong bursts, then drops, then blows hard again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) Gusty can describe a sudden loud burst of laughter, a sigh or a feeling.↗ Example: It's a gusty day, so hold on to your umbrella.↗ · Gusty winds blew the bins over in the night.↗ · The forecast says gusty showers this afternoon.↗ · Flying a kite is fun on a gusty afternoon.↗ · The ferry was cancelled because of gusty conditions.↗ · A gusty breeze rattled the windows.↗ · On gusty days, the teacher doesn't let us use the climbing frame.↗

gut — Everyday, meaning 1: The gut is the long tube in your body that food passes through, including the stomach and intestines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Guts (informal) are the inside parts of a body, especially of an animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Guts (informal) means courage.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A gut feeling is a strong feeling or idea you have without being able to explain why.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To gut a fish or animal is to remove its insides before cooking.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To gut a building is to destroy or remove everything inside it, as a fire might.↗ Example: Food is digested in your gut.↗ · Fibre keeps your gut healthy.↗ · Trust your gut; if something feels wrong, tell an adult.↗ · It took guts to stand up and sing alone.↗ · My gut tells me the answer is wrong.↗ · The fisherman gutted the fish.↗ · The fire gutted the old school building.↗ · I was gutted when we lost the final.↗

gutter — Everyday, meaning 1: A long open pipe along the edge of a roof that carries rainwater away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The low channel at the edge of a street that takes rainwater to drains.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The channel along the sides of a bowling lane.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, of a candle flame) To flicker and almost go out.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (the gutter) A very poor or low way of living.↗ Example: Dad climbed a ladder to clean the leaves out of the gutters.↗ · Rainwater rushed along the gutter into the drain.↗ · My ball went into the gutter at the bowling alley.↗ · The candle guttered and went out.↗ · I dropped my coin and it rolled into the gutter.↗ · Don't play in the gutter when it rains.↗ · What great waves there were in the gutter, and what a swift current!↗ · And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.↗ (Torah GEN.30.38, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; (Torah GEN.30.41, JPS 1917)↗

guy — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A man.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: guys (informal): people in a group, men and women, especially when talking to them.↗ e.g. "Hi, guys!".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK) A figure of a man burnt on a bonfire on Bonfire Night.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A rope that holds a tent or pole steady (guy rope).↗ Example: He's a really nice guy.↗ · Come on, guys, let's go!↗ · Who's the guy in the red hat?↗ · The good guys always win in the film.↗ · Tighten the guy ropes so the tent doesn't blow away.↗ · Thanks, you guys, that was fun.↗ · (UK) We made a guy for the bonfire.↗

gym — Everyday, meaning 1: A gym is a big room or building for sport and exercise, with equipment like weights or bars.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A gym is the school hall used for sport and games (gymnasium).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gym, or gym class, is the school lesson for sport and exercise, also called PE.↗ Example: He goes to the gym 3 times a week.↗ · The gym class has 28 pupils.↗ · A gym pass costs 30 dollars a month.↗ · She spends 45 minutes at the gym.↗ · Bring your sneakers for gym tomorrow.↗ · The school play is in the gym.↗ · We climbed ropes in gym class.↗ · Mum lifts weights at the gym before work.↗

gymnasium — Everyday, meaning 1: A gymnasium is a large room or building with equipment for sport and exercise.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In some countries (Germany, Ukraine, the Netherlands) a gymnasium is a kind of secondary school.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In ancient Greece, a place where young men trained and studied.↗ Example: PE is in the gymnasium today.↗ · The school gymnasium has ropes and climbing bars.↗ · Assembly was held in the gymnasium.↗ · In Germany, my cousin goes to a gymnasium.↗ · Greek athletes trained in the gymnasium.↗ · The gymnasium smelled of floor polish.↗

gymnast — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who does gymnastics: a sport of jumps, flips, balances and swinging on bars, rings, beams and mats.↗ Example: My sister is a gymnast and trains three times a week.↗ · The gymnast did a perfect cartwheel on the beam.↗ · Gymnasts need strong arms and a good sense of balance.↗ · The young gymnast won a gold medal.↗ · Every gymnast warms up before training.↗ · A coach stands near the gymnast to keep her safe.↗

gymnastics — Everyday, meaning 1: Gymnastics is a sport of exercises that show strength, balance and flexibility, like rolls, cartwheels, handstands and moves on bars and beams.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Gymnastics can mean very clever or difficult thinking or moves: «mental gymnastics».↗ Example: She goes to gymnastics every Tuesday.↗ · Gymnastics is my favourite part of PE.↗ · We did a gymnastics sequence with a roll and a balance.↗ · Gymnastics needs strength and flexibility.↗ · The gymnastics team won a gold medal.↗ · Rhythmic gymnastics uses ribbons, hoops and balls.↗ · Always use a mat when you practise gymnastics.↗ · Solving that puzzle took some mental gymnastics.↗

gypsum — Everyday, meaning 1: Gypsum is a soft white or grey mineral found in rocks, used to make plaster, chalk-like boards for walls, and some fertilisers.↗ Example: Gypsum is soft enough to scratch with a fingernail.↗ · Plaster of Paris is made by heating gypsum.↗ · The walls of our house are made of gypsum plasterboard.↗ · White Sands in New Mexico has dunes of gypsum.↗ · Farmers sometimes spread gypsum on clay soil.↗ · We tested the hardness of gypsum and quartz in science.↗

gypsy — Everyday, meaning 1: An old name for a person of the Romani people (Roma), whose ancestors came from India long ago and travelled through Europe; many Romani people still travel, many live in houses.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (in old books) anyone who lives a travelling life, moving in a caravan from place to place.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) of a travelling kind: a gypsy caravan.↗ Example: Toad bought a bright yellow gipsy caravan.↗ · The old gypsy caravans were painted red and gold.↗ · Toad sold the barge-woman's horse to a gipsy.↗ · Romani people, once called gypsies, have their own language.↗ · In history we learned how Roma people were treated in the war.↗ · The story told of travelling folk who lived in caravans.↗ · Some families in Ireland and Britain are Travellers.↗ · He understood the gypsy woman's meaning now.↗

gyre — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A gyre is a huge circle of ocean currents that moves round and round across a large part of an ocean.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (poetic) A gyre is a spiral or whirling movement; to gyre means to spin or whirl round.↗ Example: The North Pacific Gyre carries rubbish into a huge patch.↗ · There are five major ocean gyres.↗ · Ocean gyres move warm and cold water around the world.↗ · Plastic bottles can drift in a gyre for years.↗ · «'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.»↗ · The leaves gyred in the wind.↗

gyroscopic — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with a gyroscope, a spinning wheel or disc that keeps steady and resists being tipped over.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Behaving like a gyroscope: steady because it spins.↗ Example: A spinning top stays upright because of the gyroscopic effect.↗ · My phone has a gyroscopic sensor that knows when I turn it.↗ · The drone uses gyroscopic sensors to stay level.↗ · Spinning wheels give a bike some gyroscopic stability.↗ · A frisbee flies straighter because of its gyroscopic spin.↗ · Satellites use gyroscopic wheels to point the right way.↗