📖 G — The English dictionary · page 9

germanic — Everyday, meaning 1: Germanic describes the family of languages that includes English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Germanic describes the ancient peoples of northern Europe, such as the Angles, Saxons, Goths and Vikings, and their cultures.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Germanic can mean typical of Germany or German people.↗ Example: English is a Germanic language.↗ · The Angles and Saxons were Germanic tribes.↗ · German, Dutch and Swedish are Germanic languages too.↗ · Many short English words have Germanic roots.↗ · The Vikings spoke a Germanic language called Old Norse.↗ · «Water» and «Wasser» show the Germanic link.↗ · The Romans fought Germanic tribes.↗ · The old castle had a Germanic look.↗

germinate — Everyday, meaning 1: When a seed germinates, it starts to grow and puts out a root and a shoot.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To germinate an idea is to begin to develop it (formal).↗ Example: The bean seeds germinated after five days.↗ · Seeds need water and warmth to germinate.↗ · We germinated cress on damp cotton wool.↗ · Seeds will not germinate if they are too cold.↗ · The root comes out first when a seed germinates.↗ · An idea for the story germinated in her head.↗

germination — Everyday, meaning 1: Germination is the process in which a seed starts to grow into a new plant, putting out a root and then a shoot.↗ Example: Germination begins when the seed takes in water.↗ · We tested what seeds need for germination.↗ · Warmth speeds up germination.↗ · Germination is the first stage of a plant's life cycle.↗ · After germination, the shoot grows towards the light.↗ · Our beans showed germination after four days.↗

gestation — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The time a baby animal grows inside its mother before it is born.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The time an idea or plan takes to develop.↗ Example: The gestation period of an elephant is about 22 months.↗ · Human gestation lasts about nine months.↗ · Mice have a short gestation.↗ · Compare the gestation periods in the table.↗ · Kangaroos have a very short gestation, then the baby grows in the pouch.↗ · The idea had a long gestation before it became a book.↗

gesture — Everyday, meaning 1: A movement of your hand, head or body that shows a meaning, like waving, nodding or pointing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something you do to show a feeling, especially kindness: «a kind gesture».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To move your hand or head to show something: «She gestured to the door».↗ Example: She waved goodbye – a friendly gesture.↗ · Nodding is a gesture that means "yes" in many countries.↗ · Bringing flowers to the new neighbour was a kind gesture.↗ · The teacher gestured to us to sit down.↗ · He made a rude gesture and got into trouble.↗ · Sign language uses many gestures.↗ · Some gestures mean something different in other countries.↗ · With a hasty gesture he tried to hide it, but he was too late.↗

get — Everyday, meaning 1: To get is to receive or be given: get a present.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To get is to go and bring something: get your coat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To get is to become: get wet, get better.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To get to a place is to arrive there.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To get something can mean to understand it.↗ e.g. I get it!↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To get can mean to catch an illness or a bus: get a cold, get the bus.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «Got» often means «have»: «I've got 3», «you got any?»; «gotta» means «have got to, must»; «get this» means «listen to this surprising thing».↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (rough) «Get lost!», «get out!», «get stuffed!»↗ (UK, Australia) tell someone rudely to go away; «I'll get you» is a threat.↗ Everyday, meaning 9: (formal) The exam voice says «obtain», «acquire», «receive», «procure», «be in receipt of».↗ Example: Sam has 7 cards.↗ Sam gets 8 more cards.↗ · How many does each child get?↗ · Ella got 6 stickers from her teacher.↗ · Add 5 and 5 and you get 10.↗ · Get your coat; it's cold.↗ · I get up at seven every morning.↗ · Don't get wet in the rain!↗ · Oh, now I get it!↗ · u got any more? i only got 3 left↗ · Get lost, they're my sweets!↗ · Gotta go, mum's here.↗ · Sam, being in possession of 7 cards, subsequently acquires a further 8; determine the total.↗ · I have not got my boots!↗ · And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to wife.'↗ (Torah GEN.34.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.'↗ (Torah GEN.31.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'↗ (Torah GEN.42.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal unto Gibeath-benjamin.↗ (Prophets 1SA.13.15, JPS 1917)↗ · From Thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.↗ (Writings PSA.119.104, JPS 1917)↗ · Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.↗ (Writings PRO.22.25, JPS 1917)↗

gettest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «gettest» means «you get», a form of «get»: To get is to receive or be given: get a present.↗ Example: Take it home, and when thou gettest there, make to thyself a cattle-pen, and make it strong; then break the egg in the middle of thy cattle-pen, and thou shalt see something.↗ (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales)

getting — Everyday, meaning 1: Receiving or obtaining.↗ e.g. "I'm getting a new bike."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Becoming.↗ e.g. "It's getting dark."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Arriving or moving.↗ e.g. "We're getting home late."↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Understanding.↗ e.g. "Are you getting this?"↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Fetching.↗ e.g. "She's getting the milk."↗ Everyday, meaning 6: "Getting on" can mean how someone is doing or managing.↗ Example: It's getting dark outside.↗ · I'm getting ready for school.↗ · Are you getting better?↗ · We're getting a puppy!↗ · The ice is getting thin, so stay off.↗ · She is getting good at swimming.↗ · They are getting on well together.↗ · He is getting up early tomorrow.↗ · "How's my old woman getting on?"↗ · and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.↗ (Torah GEN.31.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; yea, with all thy getting get understanding.↗ (Writings PRO.4.7, JPS 1917)↗ · The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.↗ (Writings PRO.21.6, JPS 1917)↗

geyser — Everyday, meaning 1: A geyser is a hot spring in the ground that shoots hot water and steam high into the air from time to time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, old) A geyser is a gas water heater in a kitchen or bathroom.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A geyser can mean any sudden jet of liquid shooting up.↗ Example: Old Faithful is a geyser that erupts about every hour and a half.↗ · We watched the geyser shoot steam into the sky in Iceland.↗ · Geysers form where hot rocks heat underground water.↗ · Stay on the boardwalk because the water near a geyser is boiling.↗ · The word geyser comes from Geysir, a hot spring in Iceland.↗ · When the pipe burst, a geyser of water sprayed across the street.↗ · Rotorua in New Zealand has bubbling mud and geysers.↗

ghanaian — Everyday, meaning 1: From or to do with Ghana, a country in West Africa.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A person from Ghana.↗ Example: My friend Kwame's family is Ghanaian.↗ · Ghanaian kente cloth has bright woven patterns.↗ · We tasted Ghanaian jollof rice at the culture fair.↗ · Many Ghanaians speak English as well as Twi or Ewe.↗ · Ghanaian farmers grow lots of the world's cocoa.↗ · A Ghanaian storyteller told us about Anansi the spider.↗

ghastly — Everyday, meaning 1: Very bad, horrible or unpleasant.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Shocking and frightening, like something terrible to see.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Very pale and ill-looking, like a ghost.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, UK) Awful, as in «a ghastly mistake», «ghastly weather».↗ Example: The school dinner was ghastly.↗ · We had ghastly weather on holiday.↗ · A ghastly scream came from the cellar.↗ · He looked ghastly after being seasick.↗ · I've made a ghastly mistake!↗ · Toad thought the prison food was ghastly.↗ · The weasels let out a ghastly howl as the friends burst in.↗

gherkin — Everyday, meaning 1: A small cucumber kept in vinegar, eaten as a pickle; in the USA and Canada usually called a «pickle».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The small cucumber itself, grown for pickling.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal) «The Gherkin», a famous pickle-shaped tower in London.↗ Example: I always take the gherkin out of my burger.↗ · Mum chopped gherkins into the potato salad.↗ · Gherkins taste sour and crunchy.↗ · In America, a gherkin is just called a pickle.↗ · We saw the Gherkin building on our trip to London.↗ · A jar of gherkins stood on the picnic table.↗ · Grandpa grows gherkins in his vegetable patch.↗

ghost — Everyday, meaning 1: In stories, the spirit of a dead person that people believe can be seen or heard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A very faint trace of something.↗ e.g. "a ghost of a smile".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, slang) To suddenly stop answering someone's messages and ignore them.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: give up the ghost (informal): to die, or of a machine, to stop working.↗ Example: We told ghost stories round the campfire.↗ · He dressed up as a ghost for Halloween.↗ · The old house is said to have a ghost.↗ · She hasn't a ghost of a chance of winning.↗ · My old phone finally gave up the ghost.↗ · (slang) He ghosted me after the party.↗ · It's a ghost town on Sunday mornings.↗ · or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer.↗ (Torah DEU.18.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Turn ye not unto the ghosts, nor unto familiar spirits; seek them not out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.↗ (Torah LEV.19.31, JPS 1917)↗ · A man also or a woman that divineth by a ghost or a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.↗ (Torah LEV.20.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And Saul had put away those that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land.↗ (Prophets 1SA.28.3, JPS 1917)↗ · So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, because of the word of the LORD, which he kept not; and also for that he asked counsel of a ghost, to inquire thereby, (Writings 1CH.10.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And when they shall say unto you: 'Seek unto the ghosts and the familiar spirits, that chirp and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living unto the dead (Prophets ISA.8.19, JPS 1917)↗

ghostly — Everyday, meaning 1: Like a ghost or to do with ghosts: pale, faint, strange and scary.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Faint and hard to see or hear, as if not quite real: a ghostly shape in the fog.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ghostly can also mean spiritual, to do with the soul, saints or religion.↗ Example: A ghostly figure drifted across the old hall.↗ · We heard a ghostly moan from the attic, but it was just the wind.↗ · The moon gave the garden a ghostly glow.↗ · Her face looked ghostly pale after the fright.↗ · Ghostly shapes of ships appeared out of the fog.↗ · The tale was full of ghostly whispers.↗ · Using «ghostly» made my Halloween story spookier.↗ · To these "legends," as the folk-tales are styled in which the saints or their ghostly enemies occur, belongs the following narrative of--↗

ghoul — Everyday, meaning 1: A ghoul is an evil spirit or monster, in old tales, that haunts graveyards and feeds on dead bodies.↗ Example: The travellers heard ghouls moaning in the graveyard.↗ · Ghouls were said to dig up the dead.↗ · The children ran from the grey, hungry ghoul.↗

giant — Everyday, meaning 1: In stories, a giant is an imaginary person who is enormously big and strong.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Giant (adjective) means very, very large.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A giant is a person, company or thing that is very important or successful, like a giant of science.↗ Example: The giant lived in a castle above the clouds.↗ · A blue whale is a giant of the sea.↗ · We saw a giant tortoise at the zoo.↗ · That's a giant sandwich!↗ · Jupiter is a gas giant.↗ · The friendly dog is a gentle giant.↗ · Learning to read was a giant step for my sister.↗ · The Giant's Causeway is in Northern Ireland.↗ · 'Greater than who?' asked the giant.↗ · He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.↗ (Writings JOB.16.14, JPS 1917)↗ · These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.↗ (Writings 1CH.20.8, JPS 1917)↗ · These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.↗ (Prophets 2SA.21.22, JPS 1917)↗

giantess — Everyday, meaning 1: A giantess is a female giant, a woman of huge size in a story.↗ Example: The giantess stamped her foot and the hills shook.↗ · A kind giantess gave the boy a golden key.↗ · The giantess laughed at the tiny knight.↗

gibberish — Everyday, meaning 1: Gibberish is talk or writing that makes no sense, or words that are not real words.↗ Example: The baby babbled gibberish.↗ · I can't read this; it is gibberish.↗ · The wizard muttered gibberish and the door opened.↗

gibbet — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A gibbet was a wooden frame on which a criminal was hanged, and the body was left there to be seen.↗ Example: A gibbet stood on the hill above the road.↗ · The thief was hung on the gibbet for all to see.↗ · Crows sat on the gibbet.↗