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Definition: Gar |
GarNoun1. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth. 2. Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
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Gars (image here) Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Lepisosteiformes Family: Lepisosteidae Species Atractosteus spatula
Atractosteus tristoechus
Atractosteus tropicus
Lepisosteus oculatus
Lepisosteus osseus
Lepisosteus platostomus
Lepisosteus platyrhincus
The gars are an ancient order Lepisosteiformes (or Semionotiformes) of primitive ray-finned fish; fossil gars are known from the Permian onwards.
The living members of the order are all in a single family Lepisosteidae with seven species in two genera. While fossils indicate that some extinct species were marine, the living types are all in the fresh waters of eastern North America, Central America, and the Caribbean islands.
Gar bodies are elongate, heavily armored with ganoid scales, and fronted by similarly elongate jaws filled with long sharp teeth. Tails are heterocercal, and the dorsal fins are close to the tail.
All the gars can be large, but the alligator gar Atractosteus spatula is the champion, specimens having been recorded up to 3 meters in length.
Gars tend to be slow, preferring shallow weedy areas of rivers, lakes, bayous, but they are voracious predators, catching fish and crustaceans with their needle-like teeth.
Gar flesh is edible, and sometimes available in markets, but unlike the sturgeons that they resemble, the gars' roe is poisonous.
Genus Atractosteus:
Genus Lepisosteus:
- Alligator gar Atractosteus spatula (305 cm)
- Cuban gar Atractosteus tristoechus (200 cm)
- Tropical gar Atractosteus tropicus (125 cm)
- Spotted gar Lepisosteus oculatus (112 cm)
- Longnose gar Lepisosteus osseus (200 cm)
- Shortnose gar Lepisosteus platostomus (88 cm)
- Florida gar Lepisosteus platyrhincus (132 cm)
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The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who had served in the American Civil War. Founded by Benjamin F. Stephenson on April 6, 1866 in Decatur, Illinois, the organization was based partly on the traditions of Freemasonry, and partly on military tradition, being divided into "Departments" at the state level and "Posts" at the community level; military-style uniforms were worn by its members. It reached its largest size in 1890, with 490,000 members. There were posts in every state in the U.S., and several posts overseas.
G.A.R. Memorial, Washington, D.C.The organization wielded considerable political clout nationwide; between 1868 and 1908, no Republican was nominated to the presidency without a GAR endorsement.
The GAR was active in pension legislation, establishing retirement homes for soldiers, and many other areas which concerned Union veterans. Their influence almost certainly led to the creation of the Old Soldiers' Homes of the late 19th century which evolved into the current United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
In 1868, General Order #11 of the GAR called for May 30 to be designated as a day of memorial for Union veterans; originally called "Decoration Day," this later evolved into the U.S. national Memorial Day holiday.
In the 19th century, there was some controversy over the fact that the membership badge of the GAR closely resembled the Army's version of the Medal of Honor, causing confusion and animosity among veterans. The issue was resolved with a re-design of the latter in 1896.
The organization held an annual "National Encampment" every year from 1866 to 1949; the last member, Albert Woolson, died at the age of 109 in 1956.
The GAR also generated several auxiliary organizations, some of which are still extant. A comparable organization for Confederate veterans was the United Confederate Veterans (q.v.).
A successor organization is the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW).
External link
- GAR page at Library of Congress
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grand Army of the Republic."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GAR | English | Grand Army of the Republic | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: GarSynonyms: billfish (n), garfish (n), garpike (n), needlefish (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Production | Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gar |
| English words defined with "gar": Alligator gar ♦ Bony pike ♦ Euganoidei ♦ Ginglymodi ♦ Holostei, Hyoganoidei. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gar": Car-goose ♦ GARLIC. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gar": Voracious. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (lad), German (at all, cooked, done, entirely, even, indeed, passing, quite, really, tanned, wholly), Scottish (although he should, although not : gar an till e, although: *ga-ro. For ga, near, va. warm at a fire, warm), Serbo-Croatian (lampblack), Turkish (depot, railhead, station, station house, terminal, terminus), Turkmen (bite, snow), Welsh (ham, thigh). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gar Nasimpur (1968) Te Mazhe Gar (1963) Gar el Hama V (1916) Dr. Gar el Hamas flugt (1912) Ganz und gar (2003) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A spotted gar in an aquarium. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Plate 241. The Bowfin or Mudfish. Amia calva, L. The Short-Nosed Gar Pike. Lepidosteus platystomus, Raf. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Dusty Phelps, Anthoney Gar, Darrell Apple and Will Thunderhorse, self help housing, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD. Credit: USDA. |  | "I gar lovte far a ga tur. I dag bare sover han". Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | DNF gar til valg med et reformprogram for valgfrihet og likestilling, og vil : sosial trygghet, uten sosialisme : stem F, det Nye folkepartiet. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | China | However, beginning in June, the Government began to expel thousands of Tibetan nuns, monks, and students from the Serthar Tibetan Buddhist Institute (also known as the Larung Gar Monastic encampment) located in the Ganze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | In June Chinese authorities ordered thousands of monks and nuns to leave the Serthar Tibetan Buddhist Institute located in the Ganze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province (also known as the Larung Gar monastic encampment). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gar" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "Gar" is used about 14 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 64.29% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gar": Alligator gar ♦ Gar pike ♦ silver gar. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gar": gar-pike. | |
Ending with "gar": Al-gar. | |
Containing "gar": Yees-gar-oth. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gar alligator | 290 | gar field high school | 10 |
gar | 165 | florida gar | 9 |
fish gar | 101 | kel gar | 9 |
hung gar | 58 | bow fishing gar | 9 |
hung gar kung fu | 25 | alligator gar pic | 8 |
mec gar | 21 | fish gar picture | 7 |
gar longnose | 20 | gar product | 6 |
alligator fish gar | 19 | gar roland | 6 |
gar pike | 19 | chow gar | 6 |
alligator gar picture | 17 | gar su ta | 6 |
fishing gar | 15 | gar.com mec | 5 |
gar form | 13 | gar samuelson | 5 |
gar high school | 12 | gar lure | 5 |
gar needle nose | 12 | gar field | 5 |
alligator gar record | 12 | gar simon | 5 |
gar spotted | 11 | gar wood boat | 5 |
alligator gar record world | 10 | field.org gar | 5 |
alligator fishing gar | 10 | gar lau | 4 |
gar gator | 10 | gar inc kel | 4 |
mec gar magazine | 10 | gar needlenose | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "gar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | hornfisk (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), almindelig hornfisk (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | |
Dutch | geep (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | |
Farsi | نیزه ماهی , نوعی ماهی که ارواره مانندمنقاردارد, سگ ماهی , سوگندملایم (Od), بخدا (Gad, Od, Odd). (various references) | |
Finnish | nokkakala (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle). (various references) | |
French | orphie commune (garfish, garpike, sea gar), orphie (garfish), aiguillette (garfish, garpike, sea gar), aiguille de mer (garfish, garpike, sea gar). (various references) | |
German | Grünknochen (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Hornhecht (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Hornfisch (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Europäischer Hornhecht (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | |
Greek | σάργομος (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), βελονίδι (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), ζαργάνα (Atlantic saury, billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, needlenose, saury pike, sea gar, sea needle, skipper). (various references) | |
Italian | Belone vulgaris (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Belone euxini (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Belone acus (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), aguglia (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), agora (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), \GAR (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | |
Korean | 동갈치. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | argay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peixe-agulha (garfish, needlefish, sword-fish), agulha (broach, compass, point, roasting-jack, spire, spur). (various references) | |
Romanian | zãrgan (gar-pike, needlefish). (various references) | |
Russian | щука-травянка. (various references) | |
Scottish | gar (although he should, although not : gar an till e, although: *ga-ro. For ga, near, va. warm at a fire, warm). (various references) | |
Spanish | saltón (prominent, protruding, protuberant), agujeta (lace), aguja (broach, cannula, garfish, Marlin, needle, needlefish, pipefish, pointer, sea needle, shaft, spire, steeple, stylus, switch). (various references) | |
Swedish | näbbgädda (minx), horngädda (billfish, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle). (various references) | |
Thai | ปลาน้ำจื"ชนิ"หนึ่ง (roach, sucker, sunfish). (various references) | |
Turkish | zargana (garfish, needlefish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Belone acus, Belone belone, Belone euxini, Belone vulgaris. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gar. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 2, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ou gar estin proswpolhyia para tw qew |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Non est enim personarum acceptio apud Deum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Forðy God næfð ungelicnes. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For accepcioun of persones is not anentis God. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For ther is no parcialyte with god. But whosoever hath synned with out lawe shall perisshe wt out lawe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For there is no respect of persons with God. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For there is no respect of persons with God. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For one man is not different from another before God. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 2, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | Kay ang Dios walay pinalabi. |
| Chinese | 為 神 不 偏 待 人 。 |
| Croatian | Ta u Boga nema pristranosti. |
| Danish | Thi der er ikke Persons Anseelse hos Gud. |
| Dutch | Want er is geen aanneming des persoons bij God. |
| Finnish | Sillä Jumala ei katso henkilöön. |
| French | Car devant Dieu il n`y a point d`acception de personnes. |
| German | Denn es ist kein Ansehen der Person vor Gott. |
| Haitian Creole | Paske, Bondye pa gade sou figi moun. |
| Hungarian | Mert nincsen Isten elõtt személyválogatás. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab Allah memperlakukan semua orang sama. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sebab Allah tiada menilik atas rupa orang. |
| Italian | perché presso Dio non c'è parzialit . |
| Korean | 이 " 하 나 님 께 서 외 모 로 사 람 을 취 하 지 아 니 하 심 이 니 라 |
| Latvian | Jo Dievs neuzlûko cilvçka personu. |
| Maori | Kahore hoki a te Atua whakapai kanohi. |
| Norwegian | For Gud gjør ikke forskjell på folk: |
| Portuguese | pois para com Deus não há acepção de pessoas. |
| Rumanian | Cqci knaintea lui Dumnezeu nu se are kn vedere faya omului. |
| Shuar | Yus Ashí shuaran akantsuk mai metek iyawai. |
| Swahili | Maana Mungu hambagui mtu yeyote. |
| Swedish | Ty hos Gud finnes intet anseende till personen; |
| Uma | Apa' Alata'ala uma mpelence tauna. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gar": garage, garaged, garageman, garagemen, garages, garaging, garb, garbage, garbageman, garbagemen, garbages, garbanzo, garbanzos, garbed, garbing, garble, garbled, garbler, garblers, garbles, garbless, garbling, garboard, garboards, garboil, garboils, garbs, garcon, garcons, gardant, garden, gardened, gardener, gardeners, gardenful, gardenfuls, gardenia, gardenias, gardening, gardens, garderobe, garderobes, gardyloo, garfish, garfishes, garganey, garganeys, gargantuan, garget, gargets, gargety. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gar": agar, alegar, beggar, budgerigar, cigar, cougar, desugar, eggar, hangar, muggar, nonsugar, realgar, saggar, sangar, seggar, sugar, vinegar, vulgar. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gar": agaric, agarics, agarose, agaroses, agars, alegars, algaroba, algarobas, algarroba, algarrobas, angaria, angarias, angaries, angary, anticigarette, antilogarithm, antilogarithmic, antilogarithms, beggared, beggaries, beggaring, beggarliness, beggarlinesses, beggarly, beggars, beggarweed, beggarweeds, beggary, bigarade, bigarades, bigaroon, bigaroons, braggart, braggarts, budgerigars, cigaret, cigarets, cigarette, cigarettes, cigarillo, cigarillos, cigars, cologarithm, cologarithms, cougars, desugared, desugaring, desugars, disregard, disregarded, disregardful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gar" (pronounced gÄ"r) |
| 3 | g Ä" r | cigar. |
| 2 | -Ä" r | afar, ajar, ar, are, bar, Barre, bazaar, Bazar, bizarre, boyar, car, Carr, char, czar, dinar, disbar, far, guitar, Haar, jar, lar, Mar, Navar, par, Parr, scar, spar, star, subpar, superstar, tar, tsar. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rag. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-r" | |
-1 letter: ag, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-r" | |
+1 letter: agar, ager, brag, crag, drag, frag, garb, gars, gaur, gear, gnar, grab, grad, gram, gran, grat, gray, guar, raga, rage, ragi, rags, rang, ruga. | |
+2 letters: aargh, agars, agers, agger, aggro, agora, agree, agria, algor, anger, angry, argal, argil, argle, argol, argon, argot, argue, argus, auger, augur, barge, brags, cager, cargo, cigar, crags, drags, eager, eagre, eggar, frags, gager, gamer, gaper, garbs, garni, garth, gator, gaurs, gayer, gazar, gazer, gears, gerah, glair, glare, glary, gnarl, gnarr, gnars, goral, graal, grabs, grace, grade, grads, graft, grail, grain, grama, gramp, grams, grana, grand, grans, grant, grape, graph, grapy, grasp, grass, grate, grave, gravy, grays, graze, great, groan, groat, guard, guars, gular, gyral, jager, jagra, lager, large, largo, marge, orang, organ, pager, parge, pargo, prang, ragas, raged, ragee, rages, raggy, ragis, range, rangy, regal, regma, regna, retag, rugae, rugal, sager, sarge, scrag, sprag, sugar, targe, terga, tragi, virga, wager, wrang, yager. | |
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