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Definitions: Gale |
GaleNoun1. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Gale" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gale", "a storm". |
Date "gale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of being caught in a gale, signifies business losses and troubles for working people. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A wind with a speed between 34 and 40 knots; Force 8 on the Beaufort scale. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Wind with a speed between 32 and 37 knots (Beaufort scale wind force 8). Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Violent winds of force 8 or 9 on the Beaufort scale. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is divided into three or four categories:
See also the Beaufort scale.
Gale is also sometimes a given name for females, an alternate spelling of Gail.
There is also a town named Gale, Illinois.
Gale is a secure chat system; refer to the Gale website or Gale wiki.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gale."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wind | Gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gale |
| English words defined with "gale": Bog myrtle ♦ fresh gale ♦ Gale day ♦ Let-up, Living gale, Loom-gale ♦ moderate gale, Myrica gale ♦ near gale ♦ Pirrie ♦ rack ♦ Scotch gale, scud, scudding, Sea turn, set in, strong gale, sweet gale, sweet willow ♦ Tail of a gale, To lie to, To ride a portoise, Topgallant gale ♦ whole gale. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gale": 62990 ♦ Bare Poles ♦ Cat's Paw ♦ gale alidade, Gale's Compound ♦ Hanging Gale ♦ Manucodiata, Margan Monastery ♦ Partington ♦ Scriptres Quinque. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gale" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (Gael), French (mange, scab, scabies), Romanian (oak apple). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | After all, Gale Weathers, you're such a complex character. (Scream 3; writing credit: Ehren Kruger) Sydney, look, it's Gale Weathers. (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) All right, Mrs. Gale. But someday, they're going to erect a statue to me in this town (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley) I'm Dorthy Gale from Kansas. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Lyrics | Ra gale hamay va ser ("Mana Vu"; performing artist: Brave Combo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Her bor de gale (1973) Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973) Gale Is Dead (1970) Den Gale dansker (1969) The Gale Storm Show (1956) | |
Song Titles | We'll Sing In The Sunshine (performing artist: Gale Garnett) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Soil Conservationist Gale Nobes with rye windstrips between carrot rows. Newaygo County, Michigan.Credit: Fred Gasper. |  | Soil Conservationist Gale Nobes in established geotextile reinforced chute. Newaygo County, Michigan.Credit: Fred Gasper. |
 | Soil Conservationist Gale Nobes standing near an open water wetland area. Newaygo County, Michigan.Credit: Fred Gasper. |  | Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior Gale Norton.Credit: Unknown. |
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Alexander Pope | On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. |
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| "Gale" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.10% of the time. "Gale" is used about 435 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.1% | 318 | 16,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 26.9% | 117 | 29,823 |
| Total | 100.00% | 435 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gale" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gale | First name Female | 16,000 | 690 |
| Gale | First name Male | 8,000 | 784 |
| Gale | Last name | 6,000 | 2,228 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Gale" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gale", "a storm". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "gale". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gale | Male, Female | English | A gale |
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1. Gale, IL |
Expressions using "gale": autumn gale ♦ blow a gale ♦ equinoctials gale ♦ fresh gale ♦ Gale day ♦ gale of laughter ♦ gale warning ♦ Living gale ♦ moderate gale ♦ Myrica Gale ♦ near gale ♦ Scotch gale ♦ strong gale ♦ sweet gale ♦ Tail of a gale ♦ Topgallant gale ♦ whole gale. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gale": gale-damage, gale-force, gale-force-winds, gale-jangled, gale-lashed, Gale-opithecus, gale-swept, gale-thrashed, gale-torn, gale-tossed. | |
Ending with "gale": Loom-gale, near-gale, Segale-gale, snow-gale. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
harold gale | 878 |
gale | 134 |
david gale | 121 |
gale group | 109 |
megan gale | 101 |
daniel gale | 95 |
the life of david gale | 90 |
gale bank | 86 |
gale storm | 56 |
gale sayers | 51 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tufan (hurricane, wind, windstorm), stuhi (flaw, flurry, hurricane, storm, tempest, thunderstorm), shpërthim qeshurash, fllad (breath, breeze, freshly, zephyr), erë e fortë (noser, tang). (various references) | |
Arabic | مبلغ يدفع دوريا, نوبة (bout, fit, frenzy, tumult, turn), عاصفة (blow, foul wind, ground swell, gust, storm, tempest, thunder, weather). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хала, вихър (vortex, whirl, whirlwind), зефир (cats paw, cat's paw, zephyr), буря (storm, war of elements, weather, wind, windstorm), блатиста мирта, изблик (access, accession, burst, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, exuberance, flare, flash, flood, flush, gust, outbreak, outburst, outcrop, outflow, passion, riot, rush, spasm, spate, spirt, spurt, surge, wave). (various references) | |
Chinese | 強風 , 大风. (various references) | |
Czech | vichřice (hurricane, whirlwind). (various references) | |
Danish | storm (assault, storm, tempest, whole gale, windstorm), haard kuling (fresh gale), hård kuling (fresh gale). (various references) | |
Dutch | stormachtige wind (fresh gale, stormy wind), stormachtig, storm (storm, tempest, windstorm). (various references) | |
Farsi | تندباد (Gust, Hurricane, Jetstream), طوفان (Cataclysm, Deluge, Flood, Hurricane), باد (Air, Blast, Squall, Whiff). (various references) | |
Finnish | kova tuuli (fresh gale, moderate gale, near gale, strong wind). (various references) | |
French | coup de vent (fresh gale). (various references) | |
German | sturm (assault, attack, forward line, gust, gustiness, rush, squall, storm, tempest, thunder, turbulence, turbulency, volley, windstorm). (various references) | |
Greek | σκληρός άνεμος (fresh gale), σφοδρόσ άνεμοσ, φουρτούνα (storm, tempest), ορμητικός άνεμος (fresh gale), θύελλα (blizzard, hurricane, rainstorm, squall, storm, tempest, tornado, twister, windstorm), θυελλώδης άνεμος (killer wind, stormy wind, worst-storm conditions). (various references) | |
Hebrew | סופ" (hurricane, storm, tempest, whirlwind), סער" (assault, excitement, flurry, gust, storm, tempest), סער (gust, storm, tempest, upheaval), חשול (billow, breaker, storm, surf, surge, torrent, wave). (various references) | |
Hungarian | viharos szél (rugged wind), szélvihar (squall, wind-storm), orkán (high wind, hurricane, hurricane wind, snifter), erõs szél. (various references) | |
Indonesian | topan (cyclone, tempest, typhoon), taufan (cyclone, tempest, typhoon), badai (cyclone, hurricane, storm, typhoon). (various references) | |
Italian | burrasca (fresh gale, gustiness, squall, storm). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 烈風 (violentwind), 疾風 (hurricane, squall). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おおかぜ (strong winds), しっぷう (hurricane, squall), ぼうふう (anti-wind, storm, windstorm), れっぷう (violentwind), ゲイル , じ"ぷう (gust). (various references) | |
Korean | 강'. (various references) | |
Manx | roddagagh (bog myrtle), gaaley, gaal (steam, vapour, vapour concentration). (various references) | |
Norwegian | storm (storm, tempest), kuling. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ventania (blow, flaw, snorter, wind). (various references) | |
Romanian | viscol (blizzard, snow storm), veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gaiety, geniality, gladness, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), vânt puternic (great wind, hurricane, violent wind), ratã de chirie, furtunã (agitation, blow, commotion, hurricane, riot, squall, storm, swell, tempest, thunder storm, thunderstorm, tumult), adiere (air, aura, breath, breathing, breeze, puff, whiff, wind, zephyr). (various references) | |
Russian | шторм (storm). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razdraganost (glee, joyfulness, mirth), oluja (squall, storm, tempest, thunderstorm, windstorm), jak vetar (high wind, snorter), bura (blow, bora, tempest). (various references) | |
Spanish | galerna, viento duro (fresh gale, storm, whole gale), ventarrón, vendaval (storm), tormenta (electric storm, Harrow, lightning storm, rainstorm, storm, tempest, thunderstorm), temporal (fresh gale, reprieve, seasonal, storm, temporal, temporary, term, time), tempestad (squall, storm, tempest), bomarca. (various references) | |
Swedish | storm (storm, tempest). (various references) | |
Thai | การระเบิ"ออก"้วยเสียงอัน"ัง, ลมแรง. (various references) | |
Turkish | reçineli bataklık ağacı, mersin ağacı, fırtına (gust, hurricane, snorter, squall, storm, tempest), bora (flurry, gust, squall, storm, tempest), şiddetli rüzgâr (blast, strong wind). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шторм (storm). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | procella, procellae, procellam, procellarum, procellis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gale": galea, galeae, galeas, galeate, galeated, galena, galenas, galenic, galenical, galenicals, galenite, galenites, galere, galeres, gales. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gale": farthingale, galingale, martingale, nightingale, regale. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gale": farthingales, galingales, legalese, legaleses, martingales, nightingales, regaled, regaler, regalers, regales. (additional references) | |
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"Gale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agale, Agalev, agalevn, Aghalee, agle, aglee, agli, egale, gaae, gaal, Gaalen, gaalla, gace, gae, ga-ee, gael, Gaeltec, gagle, gaie, gaje, gake, galac, galae, galah, Galai, galam, galap, galar, galay, gald, Galeb, galec, galed, galee, galen, galer, galet, galex, galey, Gali, galia, galib, Galiev, galik, galiz, Galk, galla, galle, gallei, galler, gallet, galo, galoe, galp, galq, galr, galtee, galu, galup, Galver, Galwex, galz, Gamla, gamle, Gamlen, Ganley, garlek, garlen, gaulle, gavle, gawe, gaxe, gayle, gaylee, Geala, Geale, Geel, gela, gele, gelee, gelen, Geler, geli, gelo, gelu, Ghaleb, gialli, giallo, Giel, Gile, Gilel, gilet, gilez, gili, gille, gilte, gla, glae, Glage, glak, glau, glaue, glax, gle, glea, Glek, goale, Goaler, Goalo, goel, Gole, golee, goli, Golke, golle, gozle, gralen, gralle, Guala, guale, guel, Gule, gulle, gulu, gusle, gvle, Gylee, Igalo, jale, Mgala, ngael, Ngala, Ngalo, Ngele, oale, uguale, zale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gale" (pronounced gā"l) |
| 2 | -ā" l | ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, braille, Carrell, curtail, dale, derail, detail, entail, exhale, fail, flail, frail, grail, hail, Hale, impale, inhale, jail, kail, kale, mail, maile, male, nail, pail, pale, prevail, quail, quale, rail, sail, sale, scale, shale, snail, stale, surveil, tail, tale, trail, tramell, travail, unveil, Vail, Vale, veil, wail, Wale, whale. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: egal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l" | |
-1 letter: age, ale, gae, gal, gel, lag, lea, leg. | |
-2 letters: ae, ag, al, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l" | |
+1 letter: agile, aglee, aglet, agley, algae, angel, angle, argle, bagel, belga, eagle, gable, galea, gales, gavel, glace, glade, glare, glaze, gleam, glean, gleba, lager, large, legal, plage, regal. | |
+2 letters: agedly, aglare, agleam, aglets, aiglet, alegar, allege, angels, angled, angler, angles, anlage, argled, argles, argyle, bagels, bangle, beagle, beflag, begall, beglad, belgas, beluga, daggle, dangle, eagles, eaglet, flange, gabble, gabled, gables, gaggle, galeae, galeas, galena, galere, galled, gallet, galley, galore, gamble, gamely, gaoled, gaoler, garble, gargle, gavels, gelada, gelant, gelate, gelati, gelato, genial, glaces, glades, glaire, glaive, glance, glared, glares, glazed, glazer, glazes, gleams, gleamy, gleans, glebae, goaled, goalie, gravel, haggle, jangle, laager, lagend, lagers, lagged, lagger, lagune, langue, larger, larges, lavage, league, legacy, legals, legate, legato, legman, ligase, ligate, linage, lovage, maglev, malgre, mangel, mangle, milage, pelage, plages, plague, raggle, regale, regnal, sagely, silage, tangle, telega, tergal, ullage, vagile, waggle, wangle. | |
+3 letters: aerogel, ageless, agelong, agilely, aiglets, alegars, algebra, aligned, aligner, alleged, alleger, alleges, allegro, allergy, allonge, aneling, angeled, angelic, angelus, angerly, anglers, anglice, anlagen, anlages, apogeal, argyles, atingle, bangles, beagles, beflags, begalls, beglads, belugas, bulkage, cageful, clagged, clanged, clanger, collage, congeal, daggled, daggles, dangled, dangler, dangles, dealing, decalog, deglaze, draggle, eagerly, eaglets, eanling, earplug, egalite, elating, elegant, elegiac, engrail, enlarge, epigeal, euglena, eulogia, evangel, fenagle, finagle, flagged, flagger, flagmen, flanged, flanger, flanges, fleabag, flotage, flowage, foliage, fragile, gabbled, gabbler, gabbles, gabelle, gaggled, gaggles, galatea, galaxes, galeate, galenas, galenic, galeres, galilee, gallate, gallein, galleon, gallery, galleta, gallets, galleys, gallied, gallies, galoped, galores, galoshe, gambled, gambler, gambles, gambrel, gamelan, gangrel, gantlet, gaolers, garbled, garbler, garbles, gargled, gargler, gargles, gasless, gaveled, gazelle, gelable, geladas, gelants, gelated, gelates, gelatin, gelatos, gellant, geminal, general, genital, geoidal, gestalt, getable, glaceed, glacier, gladded, gladden, gladder, gladier, glaiket, glaired, glaires, glaived, glaives, glanced, glancer, glances, glandes, glarier, glassed, glasses, glassie, glazers, glazier, gleamed, gleamer, gleaned, gleaner, gleeman, gloated, gloater, globate, glomera, glossae, gluteal, gnarled, goalies, gomeral, grabble, gracile, grackle, granule, grapnel, grapple, graupel, gravels, gravely, greatly, gremial, greylag, guayule, gunwale, haggled, haggler, haggles, halogen, haulage, haylage, healing, illegal, jackleg, jagless, jangled, jangler, jangles, keelage, kleagle, laagers, lagends, lagered, laggers, lagunes, langley, langrel, langues, languet, largely, largess, largest, lasagne, laughed, laugher, lavages, leading, leafage, leafing, leagued, leaguer, leagues, leakage, leaking, leaning, leaping, leasing, leaving, legally, legated, legatee, legates, legator, legatos, ligases, ligated, ligates, ligulae, linages, lineage, linguae, linkage, lockage, lovages, luggage, maglevs, mangels, mangled, mangler, mangles, melange, meltage, milages, mileage, millage, moulage, nargile, pealing, pelages, pelagic, pergola, pillage, plagued, plaguer, plagues, plaguey, plumage, raggles, realgar, realign, regaled, regaler, regales, regalia, regally, reginal, reglaze, regular, salvage, scalage, seagull, sealing, segetal, selvage, silages, slagged, slanged, soilage, spangle, sullage, taglike, tallage, tangelo, tangled, tangler, tangles, tegular, telegas, tillage, tollage, twangle, ullaged, ullages, unagile, ungulae, vaguely, vealing, vegetal, verglas, village, voltage, vorlage, vulgate, waggled, waggles, wangled, wangler, wangles, weigela, wrangle, yealing, zooglea. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41677871 |
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