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Definitions: Gill |
GillNoun1. A British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters. 2. A United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces. 3. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus. 4. Respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Gill" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a servant". |
Date "gill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Literature | Gill (g soft) or Jill. A generic name for a lass, a sweetheart. (A contraction of Gillian = Juliana, Julia.) "Jack and Jill went up the hill ... Nursery Rhymes. "Every Jack has got his Jill (i.e. Ilka laddie Has his lassie)." - Burns. Gill (Harry). A farmer struck with the curse of ever shivering with cold, because he would not allow old Goody Blake to keep a few stray sticks which she had picked up to warm herself by. "Oh! what's the matter? what's the matter? What is't that ails young Harry Gill, That evermore his teeth they chatter, Chatter, chatter, chatter, still? ... No word to any man he utters, A-bed or up, to young or old; But ever to himself he mutters - Poor Harry Gill is very cold." Wordsworth: Goody Blake and Harry Gill. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A thin piece of metal attached to a length of tubing or other surface in order to increase the heat transfer area. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | A British unit equal to 0. 25 imperial pint or 8. 669 cubic inches. . 142. 066 cubic centimeters p. 1399/, a U. S. liquid unit equal to 0. 25 U. S. liquid pint or 7. 218 cubic inches. . . 118. 291 millimeters p. 1399. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | GILL. The abbreviation of Gillian, figuratively used for woman. Every jack has his gill; i.e. every jack has his gillian, or female mate. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GillSynonyms: branchia (n), lamella (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet; streamlet, brooklet; branch; runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary. |
Sharpness | Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Well, it's a world gone mad, Gill. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) Gill, I am really afraid of needles, but that doesn't make me a bad person (Runaway Bride; writing credit: Josann McGibbon; Sara Parriott) 3 oinkers wearing pants, plate full of hot air, basket of grandma's breakfast and change the bull to a gill, got it! (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) | |
Song Titles | Rub You The Right Way (performing artist: Johnny Gill) | |
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 | A wide variety of fish and shellfish species support a mostly small-scale fisher y, operating near to the coast. Over 40 types of gear are used in the Mediterran ean. Most common type is trawlgear for benthic species; coastal purse seiners for small pelagics; trammel and gillnets for inshore species; and purse seines, long surface gill nets, and longlines are used for large pelagic fish.Credit: Fisheries. |  | Pl. L. 183. Notacanthus nasus, Bloch. From Cuvier and Valenciennes, "Histoire Naturelle des Poissons...." 184. Notacanthus analis, Gill. At N. Lat. 32.65, W. Lon. 76.8, in 478 fathoms. 185. Notacanthus Bonapartii, Risso. From Vaillant, " Exped. Scient. du Travailleur et du Talisman." 189. Notacanthus phasganorus, Goode. From the stomach of a ground-shark on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Pl. XCIV. 327. Onos ensis, (Reinhardt), Gill. At N. Lat. 39.7, W. Lon. 70.5, in 1081 fathoms. 328. Rhinonemus cimbrius, (Linnaeus), Goode and Bean. Collected in Chaleur Bay. 329. Brosmius brosme, (Muller), Gunther. Obtained in a Boston market.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Juvenile codfish caught in a gill net. Gadus morhua.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | ALVIN deploys baited traps to attract six gill sharks.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Watson, W., and W. Bean. Orchids: Their Culture and Management. London: L. Upcott Gill, 1893.Credit: USDA. |
 | Quel malheur de n'avoir pas connu plus tot cerre Eau sublime! : [Dentistry] / Gill [pseud.].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Dr. Theodore Nicholas Gill, Of Washington, D.C. / Drawn from Life by P. Rénouard.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Where the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was constructed in 1863. Located at the corner of Water and State Streets, in Mobile, this old building housed the Gill Welding and Boiler Works when photographed in about 1960.Credit: NAVY. |  | Gill Hatfield.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Gill" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.73% of the time. "Gill" is used about 716 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 (proper) | 81.73% | 585 | 10,828 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.04% | 115 | 30,138 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.53% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.42% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 716 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gill" 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 |
| Gill | Last name | 27,000 | 424 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Gill, CO |
Expressions using "gill": cooling gill ♦ encircling gill net ♦ external gill ♦ Gill ale ♦ gill arch ♦ Gill arches ♦ gill bar ♦ Gill bars ♦ gill cleft ♦ Gill clefts ♦ Gill cover ♦ Gill frame ♦ gill fungus ♦ Gill head ♦ Gill lid ♦ Gill net ♦ Gill opening ♦ gill over the ground ♦ Gill rakers ♦ Gill rakes ♦ Gill slit. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "gill": gill-bearing, gill-covers, Gill-flirt, gill-less, gill-like, gill-maggot, gill-net, gill-nets, gill-netter, gill-netting, gill-over-the-ground, gill-price. | |
Ending with "gill": Flirt-gill, fore-gill, will-gill. | |
| 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 |
vince gill | 908 | gill johnny lyrics | 22 |
gill | 233 | austin gill | 22 |
johnny gill | 198 | by gill lyrics someday vince | 22 |
vince gill lyrics | 169 | gill lyrics song vince | 22 |
airway gill | 145 | darby o gill and the little people | 22 |
gill lyrics someday vince | 88 | kendall gill | 20 |
blue gill | 62 | roma gill | 19 |
gill net | 49 | dan gill | 19 |
gill colorado | 48 | tom gill chevrolet | 18 |
bob gill | 44 | eric gill | 18 |
thea gill | 43 | james gill | 17 |
gill mc university | 39 | dave gill pontiac | 17 |
gill someday vince | 38 | architect b b b b b b course david gill golf halberg limited steven | 17 |
john gill | 35 | douglas gill | 17 |
gill sans | 34 | chris gill | 16 |
amy grant and vince gill | 31 | gill sans font | 15 |
mc gill | 30 | levert sweat gill | 15 |
foundation gill | 28 | vince gill song | 15 |
priya gill | 26 | gill line | 15 |
athletics gill | 23 | gill company | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "gill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Gushë (chin, craw, gills, goitre, throat), Verzë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فتاة (babe, baby, bird, bud, filly, girl, lass, maid, nymph, pigeon, wench, young woman), مظر قبيح, نهير (branch, streamlet), واد صغير (dell), وريقة (pinnule), صفيحة (can, hob, plate, platelet, scoop, tablet), صيد السمك (fishing), صاد السمك, خيشوم (branchia), الجل مكيال للسوائل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Обица, Ламели, "война Брадичка, Изкормвам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鳃, 峽谷 (canyon, ravine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Žábry. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gælle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kieuw (louver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | branko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | tákn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیمانه ای برای شراب , نهرکوچک (Grip, Rivulet, Streamlet), نصف پینتtnip , گوشت ماهی , تمیزکردن ماهی , جویبار (Fluor, Rill, Rivulet, Rush, Streamlet), استطاله زیرگلوی مرغ , ابجو (Ale, Beer, Porter), دستگاه تنفس ماهی , دخترجوان (Kitty, Pigeon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ripa (fin, handle, rib, strengthening rib, web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | branchie (gills). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kieme, Rippe (channel, cord, costa, edge, fin, integral key, louver, midrib, plain rib, puffed portion, raised portion, rasp, rib, ridge, row, segment, spline, strengthening rib, vein, web, wing rib). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Οκτώ Ουγγία, όέτρο Υγρών (Tun), όονάδα όγκου, σύρτης με πεδίο βελονών (gillbox), γκίλ μπόξ (gillbox), πτερύγιο (ala, baffle, barb, bead flipper, blade, cant, cant of tumbler, cutting blade, feather, fin, finger, flail, flailing hammer, flap, flash, flicker, flipper, paddle, pavilion, pinion, pterygium, rotor blade, scraper, side, side of a tumbler, swinging flail, twig, vane, wing), 'ραγχίο Υχθύοσ, 'ραγχίο Ψαριού, ίάτω Τμήμα ίύπελλου όανιταρίου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ֶים, ְ'י". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Kopoltyú (Branchiae, ear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | insang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | branchia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 刺し網 (gill net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さしあみ (gill net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sproghan (craw, crop), lieh-phynt, grooane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | gjelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illgay guelra, brânquia. (various references) Guşã (craw, crop, dewlap, goitre, jowl, maw), Urechi, Torent De Munte, Rovinã Împãduritã, Mãsurã De Capacitate (barrel, cubic measure, gallon, liquid measure), Lamelã (lamella, lamina, laminae, lamination, leaf), Curãţa (brush, brush up, burnish, clean, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dredge, dress, dust, furbish, grub, mop, mop up, pick, purge, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, skin, trim, wash, wipe), Branhii (gills), Bãrbie (chin, chin rest, dewlap, gills), şuvoi (flood, flush, flux, gush, gushing, jet, outpour, stack, stream, torrent). (various references) Жабры, "лубокий Лесистый Овраг, 'торой Подбородок, Бородка У Петуха, ебро адиатора. (various references) siola (a gill, a syllable, a wooden collar for a plough horse, gill; also). (various references) podvoljak (dewlap, jowl), klisura (canyon, defile, dingle, ghat, glen, gorge), škrga. (various references) branquia (branchia), Agalla (gall, oak apple, oak gall, oak-nut, oak-wart, plant gall, point, point of a hook, tumor, tumour). (various references) Gäl, lamell (disc, disk, fin, guided vane, lamella, lamina, lamination). (various references) ใช้แหหรืออวนจับปลา, เหงือกปลา. (various references) Gidiş (conduct, departure, deportment, go, going, outgoing, process, sequence, tenor), Solungaç (branchia, sound), Sevgili (beau, beloved, concubine, darling, dear, dearie, deary, dove, doxy, duck, duckie, ducky, fancy man, favorite, favourite, feller, fellow, flame, gallant, girl, inamorata, inamorato, Jill, ladylove, love, loved, lover, paramour, pet, precious, queen, steady, sweetheart, sweetie, sweety, Truelove, well-beloved), Sarkık Yanak, Mantarın Alt Kısmı, Derin Ve Ağaçlı Dere, Çeyrek Pint, Çene Altı. (various references) Кохана (Sweeting), "івчина. (various references) 141 lít ở Anh (jill), 0 (jill). (various references) tagell (dewlap, double chin, wattle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | gillo. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | gille. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gill": gilled, giller, gillers, gillie, gillied, gillies, gilling, gillnet, gillnets, gillnetted, gillnetter, gillnetters, gillnetting, gills, gilly, gillyflower, gillyflowers, gillying. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gill": bluegill. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gill": argillaceous, argillite, argillites, aspergilla, aspergilli, aspergilloses, aspergillosis, aspergillum, aspergillums, aspergillus, bluegills, gingilli, gingillis, megillah, megillahs, megilloth, scungilli, scungillis. (additional references) | |
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"Gill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaill, gaull, Geall, geil, gelk, gella, Ghilo, Ghiolla, gial, gialli, giallo, Giel, gil, gilb, Gilel, Gilf, gili, gille, Giol, Giolla, gli, glic, glif, glio, glip, glix, goil, golla, guil, guill, guillo, gulal, Gyhll, igl, igol, ogil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gill" (pronounced gi"l) |
| 2 | -i" l | bill, Brazil, brill, chill, dill, distil, distill, drill, Fil, fill, frill, fulfill, goodwill, grill, grille, Hill, ill, instill, Jill, kill, krill, Mil, mill, Mille, nil, nill, pill, prill, quill, refill, rill, Shill, shrill, sill, skill, spill, still, swill, thill, thrill, til, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will, zill. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-l" | |
-1 letter: ill. | |
-2 letters: li. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-l" | |
+1 letter: gills, gilly, glial, grill. | |
+2 letters: gallic, gilled, giller, gillie, glibly, gluily, grille, grills, ligula, ligule, logily, uglily. | |
+3 letters: agilely, allying, balling, belling, billbug, billing, bolling, bulling, calling, celling, culling, dolling, dulling, falling, felling, filling, fulling, galilee, gallein, gallied, gallies, galling, galliot, gallium, gelidly, gelling, ghillie, gillers, gillied, gillies, gilling, gillnet, gingall, glacial, godlily, gorilla, grilled, griller, grilles, gullied, gullies, gulling, helling, hilling, hulling, illegal, illogic, jelling, jingall, killing, ladling, lalling, legible, legibly, leglike, lightly, ligulae, ligular, ligulas, ligules, lilting, lingual, logical, lolling, lugsail, lulling, lyingly, malling, melling, millage, milling, mulling, nilling, nulling, palling, pillage, pilling, polling, pulling, rilling, rolling, selling, telling, tillage, tilling, tolling, village, walling, welling, willing, yelling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 69 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G i l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0069 006C 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41757878 |
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