📖 G — The English dictionary · page 6

gazette — Everyday, meaning 1: A gazette is an official newspaper that prints news, notices and honours.↗ Example: The gazette printed the news of the wedding.↗ · His name was in the gazette.↗ · The town gazette came out every week.↗

gazillion — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, hyperbole) A gazillion is a made-up, huge number used to say «very, very many»; it is not a real number.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Gazillions means an enormous amount, more than anyone could count.↗ Example: I've asked you a gazillion times to tidy your room!↗ · There were gazillions of ants on the picnic blanket.↗ · She has a gazillion stickers in her collection.↗ · The sky had a gazillion stars that night.↗ · «How many questions are on the test?»↗ «About a gazillion.»↗ · The phone game has gazillions of players.↗

gdp — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) GDP stands for gross domestic product: the total value of all the goods and services a country makes in one year.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: GDP is often used to compare how big or rich countries' economies are.↗ Example: The USA has the largest GDP in the world.↗ · GDP measures everything a country makes and sells in a year.↗ · If GDP goes down for six months, people talk about a recession.↗ · To find GDP per person, divide the GDP by the population.↗ · The news said GDP grew by 1 percent this year.↗ · A country with a small GDP can still have happy people.↗ · Tourism adds a lot to New Zealand's GDP.↗

ge — Everyday, meaning 1: «Ge» is not an English word on its own.↗ It is a piece of a longer word, for example «age», «gem» or «get».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ge is the chemistry symbol for germanium, a grey element used in electronics.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: GE can stand for General Electric, an American company, or for «general election» in news talk.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In Greek myths, Ge (also Gaia) is the goddess of the Earth (a name).↗ Example: In «page», the letters «ge» make a /j/ sound.↗ · Ge is the symbol for germanium on the periodic table.↗ · Words like «huge» and «cage» end in «ge».↗ · The Greeks called the Earth goddess Ge or Gaia.↗ · Our fridge was made by GE.↗ · «Ge» at the start of «gentle» sounds soft.↗ · Thus came into being the two first great primeval deities of the Greeks, Uranus and Ge or Gaea.↗ · And Meonothai begot Ophrah; and Seraiah begot Joab the father of Ge-harashim; for they were craftsmen.↗ (Writings 1CH.4.14, JPS 1917)↗

gear — Everyday, meaning 1: The equipment or clothes you need for an activity, like camping gear or football gear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A wheel with teeth around the edge that turns another toothed wheel in a machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: One of the settings on a bike or car that changes how fast the wheels turn compared with the pedals or engine: first gear, low gear.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: "Gear up" means get ready.↗ Example: Pack your swimming gear for tomorrow.↗ · Change to a lower gear to ride up the hill.↗ · The clock has lots of tiny gears inside.↗ · Always wear your safety gear when skateboarding.↗ · The small gear turns twice for every turn of the big gear.↗ · The team geared up for the big match.↗ · Dad put the car in first gear.↗ · Our camping gear filled the whole boot of the car.↗ · The boy, having donned his hunting gear, would join the king at a place arranged between them, and then they ranged abroad as chance might direct.↗

gecko — Everyday, meaning 1: A gecko is a small lizard that lives in warm countries, with sticky toe pads that let it climb walls and even walk on ceilings.↗ Example: A gecko ran up the wall and across the ceiling.↗ · Geckos can lose their tails to escape from predators.↗ · We saw a green gecko in New Zealand.↗ · Our class pet is a leopard gecko.↗ · Geckos chirp and click at night.↗ · Scientists study gecko feet to make sticky tape.↗ · and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.↗ (Torah LEV.11.30, JPS 1917)↗

gee — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, US) Gee is a word showing surprise, delight or mild annoyance, like "wow" or "oh".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: "Gee up" is what riders say to make a horse go faster; (UK, informal) to gee someone up means to encourage them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gee is the name of the letter G.↗ Example: Gee, that's a big dog!↗ · "Gee, thanks for the present!"↗ · Gee whiz, look at all that snow!↗ · "Gee up!" shouted the farmer to his horse.↗ · The coach geed the team up at half-time.↗ · Gee, I wish I could come too.↗ · "Gee up! gee up!" he cried; "now we've got him!"↗ But here a stream crossed the road, and the stag plunged into the water.↗

gel — Everyday, meaning 1: Gel is a thick, wobbly or sticky substance, between a liquid and a solid, like hair gel, shower gel or hand gel.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To gel is to become firmer, like jelly setting.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To gel (of people) is to start to work well together.↗ Example: Use some hand gel before lunch.↗ · He put gel in his hair to make it spiky.↗ · The jelly gelled in the fridge.↗ · Our team really gelled in the second half.↗ · Put a cold gel pack on the bump.↗ · Aloe vera gel soothes sunburn.↗ · Shower gel smells of strawberries.↗

gelatine — Everyday, meaning 1: Gelatine is a clear substance with no taste, made by boiling animal bones and skin, which makes liquids set into a wobbly solid when they cool.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Gelatine is used to make jelly, sweets, glue, capsules for medicine and photographic film.↗ Example: Jelly sets because of the gelatine.↗ · Gummy bears are made with gelatine.↗ · These sweets are gelatine-free, so they are vegetarian.↗ · Soak the gelatine sheets in cold water first.↗ · Medicine capsules are often made of gelatine.↗ · Agar is a plant-based swap for gelatine.↗ · The gelatine made the dessert wobble.↗

gelatinous — Everyday, meaning 1: Thick, soft and wobbly like jelly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Made of or containing gelatine, the clear substance used to set jelly.↗ Example: Frogspawn is a gelatinous mass of eggs.↗ · The jellyfish's body is soft and gelatinous.↗ · Chia seeds turn gelatinous when you soak them in water.↗ · The monster was a gelatinous green blob.↗ · Cold gravy can turn gelatinous in the fridge.↗ · Some mushrooms have a gelatinous cap.↗ · We made slime with a gelatinous, wobbly texture.↗

gem — Everyday, meaning 1: A beautiful, valuable stone, such as a diamond, ruby or emerald, cut and polished for jewellery; a jewel.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person or thing that is especially good or special: «you're a gem».↗ Example: The crown was covered in gems.↗ · Rubies are red gems and emeralds are green.↗ · Gems are found in rocks deep underground.↗ · Thanks for helping, you're a gem!↗ · This little park is a hidden gem.↗ · The pirate's chest was full of gold and gems.↗ · The brothers looked long at the gems.↗

gemini — Everyday, meaning 1: Gemini is a group of stars (a constellation) in the night sky, named after the twins Castor and Pollux from Greek myths.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (astrology) Gemini is one of the twelve star signs; people born roughly late May to late June are called Geminis.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (space) Gemini was a NASA space programme in the 1960s that flew two astronauts at a time, before the Apollo Moon landings.↗ Example: Gemini is the constellation of the twins.↗ · You can see Gemini in the winter sky in the north.↗ · My birthday is in June, so my star sign is Gemini.↗ · Castor and Pollux are the two brightest stars in Gemini.↗ · Project Gemini taught astronauts how to do spacewalks.↗ · Horoscopes say Geminis are chatty, but there is no scientific evidence for that.↗ · [paragraph continues] Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · God produced Zain, predominant in movement, crowned, combined, and formed Gemini in the world, Sivan in the year, and the left foot of man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He produced Zain, predominant in Movement, crowned it, combined and formed it with Gemini in the Universe, Sivan in the Year, and the left foot of Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

gemma — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Gemma is a girl's name, popular in the UK, Ireland and Australia; it comes from Italian and Latin for «gem» or «jewel».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) A gemma is a tiny bud or group of cells on mosses and liverworts that breaks off and grows into a new plant.↗ Example: Gemma is my best friend's big sister.↗ · Ask Gemma to pass the scissors.↗ · The liverwort had tiny cups full of gemmae.↗ · Raindrops splash the gemmae out of their cups.↗ · Each gemma can grow into a new plant.↗ · Gemma scored the winning goal in netball.↗

gemstone — Everyday, meaning 1: A precious or beautiful stone that is cut and polished to be used in jewellery, such as a diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald.↗ Example: A ruby is a red gemstone.↗ · The crown was covered in gemstones.↗ · Diamonds are the hardest gemstones.↗ · We found tiny gemstones when panning at the museum.↗ · Each month has its own birthstone gemstone.↗ · Gemstones are cut so they sparkle in the light.↗ · Amber is a gemstone made from old tree resin.↗

gen — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) «Gen» is short for «generation», as in «Gen Z» or «Gen Alpha», a group of people born around the same time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK slang) «Gen» means «genuinely» or «honestly»: «I'm gen tired».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal, old-fashioned) «The gen» means the information or the facts: «give me the gen».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (abbreviation) «Gen.» is short for the army rank General, and «Gen» for the Bible book Genesis.↗ Example: My older cousin says she is Gen Z.↗ · Children born recently are sometimes called Gen Alpha.↗ · «That was gen the best film ever», said Callum.↗ · The new next-gen console came out at the weekend.↗ · Look up Gen 1:1 — the first verse of the Bible.↗ · Gen. Eisenhower led the soldiers.↗ · Grandad asked for «the gen» on the school trip.↗

gender — Everyday, meaning 1: Gender is being a boy or a girl, a man or a woman, especially the roles and ideas people and societies connect with that; some people feel they are both, neither, or not the gender they were thought to be at birth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (grammar) In languages like French, German and Spanish, gender is the group a noun belongs to, such as masculine or feminine, which changes words like «the» and «a».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: On forms, gender is a box asking whether you are male, female or something else.↗ Example: Any gender can be a scientist or a nurse.↗ · Our class talked about gender stereotypes in toy adverts.↗ · In French, every noun has a gender: «le livre», «la table».↗ · The form asked for my name, age and gender.↗ · Gender equality means girls and boys get the same chances.↗ · In German there are three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.↗ · Some people say gender and sex mean the same; others use gender for roles and identity.↗ · [239] Kruchina, as an abstract idea, is of the feminine gender.↗ · Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind; thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed; neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.↗ (Torah LEV.19.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And the hoar-frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?↗ (Writings JOB.38.29, JPS 1917)↗

gene — Everyday, meaning 1: A gene is a tiny part of the DNA inside the cells of a living thing that carries instructions passed down from parents to children, such as for eye colour or the shape of a leaf.↗ Example: You get your genes from both your parents.↗ · Genes help decide your eye colour.↗ · Tall parents often have tall children because of their genes.↗ · Every living thing has genes, even plants.↗ · Scientists study genes to understand diseases.↗ · Twins who are identical have the same genes.↗ · It runs in the family, it must be in the genes!↗

genealogical — Everyday, meaning 1: Genealogical means about the history of a family, showing who was whose parent or ancestor.↗ Example: She drew a genealogical table of her family.↗ · The old people told the children their genealogical history.↗ · The pine tree was their genealogical tree.↗

genealogy — Everyday, meaning 1: A genealogy is a list or history of who your ancestors were, going back through the family.↗ Example: He studied his family's genealogy.↗ · Tuan recited his genealogy to the monks.↗ · The genealogies were long and hard to remember.↗ · These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.↗ (Writings 1CH.4.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty and six thousand men.↗ (Writings 1CH.7.40, JPS 1917)↗ · And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief Jeiel, and Zechariah, (Writings 1CH.5.7, JPS 1917)↗

general — Everyday, meaning 1: General means about most people or things, not one in particular: «a general rule».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: General means not detailed, giving the main idea: «a general idea».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: General means for everyone or everything: «general knowledge».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A general is a very high-ranking officer in an army.↗ Example: In general, cats sleep a lot.↗ · Can you give me a general idea of the story?↗ · We had a general knowledge quiz.↗ · As a general rule, wash your hands before eating.↗ · Find a general rule for the number pattern.↗ · The general led his army into battle.↗ · The park is open to the general public.↗ · The general mood in class was happy.↗ · "I am astonished also!" said the General.↗ · A separate consideration of the several parts should follow this general grasp of the subject, else much confusion may result.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · I base it off an interpretation of the SY’s internal structure, the semantic properties of the root ספ״ר SPR, and the SY’s general grammatical inventiveness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Waldon Carr, The General Principles of Relativity 1920, p. 152).↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗