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Definition: Gully |
GullyNoun1. Deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A small valley in the terrain resulting from the action of erosion by water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | A large incision in a slope caused by running water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | A very small channel formed by running water. Gullies hold water for brief periods of time after a rain storm or snow melt. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gully is a city located in Polk County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 106.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.2 km² (2.0 mi²). 5.2 km² (2.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.50% is water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 106 people, 52 households, and 26 families residing in the city. The population density is 20.4/km² (52.7/mi²). There are 66 housing units at an average density of 12.7/km² (32.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 99.06% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.94% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 52 households out of which 23.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% are married couples living together, 3.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 48.1% are non-families. 44.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 17.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.04 and the average family size is 2.93. In the city the population is spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 2.8% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 24.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 120.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 118.9 males. The median income for a household in the city is $17,500, and the median income for a family is $21,875. Males have a median income of $21,250 versus $17,917 for females. The per capita income for the city is $11,644. 16.8% of the population and 14.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 17.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gully, Minnesota."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot, grotto; alcove, cul-de-sac; gully; arch; (curve); bay; (of the sea). |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
Interval | Gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow; abra; barranca, barranco; clove, gulch, notch; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis; (interjacence); void c. (absence); incompleteness. |
Opening | Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gully |
| English words defined with "gully": Couloir ♦ draw ♦ Gulles, Gullied, Gullies, Gullying ♦ nullah ♦ wadi. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gully": brush gully plug ♦ Gully erosion ♦ trapezoidal-shaped gully. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gully": gullet. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gully" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (drain, gully). |
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Screenplays | You didn't, by any chance, happen to put him in a bag and dropped him off a hill into a gully did you (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami) | |
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 | Three-dimensional image of Monterey Canyon, termed a "gully" in this image. This image is the first attempt to depict a 3-dimensional view of a submarine canyon and incorporated soundings from the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Fish Commission. This highly simplistic view was constructed from relatively sparse soundings and does not capture the complexity of the canyon system. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Gully erosion from uncontrolled runoff. Kansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | A large gully has formed on this edge of this field exposing tile drainage lines. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Severe gully erosion on loess soils in western Iowa. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Ephemeral gully erosion and severe rill erosion washes young corn plants from the ground as well as topsoil and nutrients from loess soils in this western Iowa field. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Ponds provide gully control and help conserve water. Credit: Glenn Shea. |
 | Drop structure built at the outlet of a grassed waterway to stabilize the waterway and allow runoff to leave the waterway without causing gully erosion. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Farm ponds provide many benefits including livestock water, gully control, fish and wildlife habitat. Credit: Kim Golden. |
 | Gully ErosionBoise FrontFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown. |  | A gully plug in a riparian recovery area of Sheldon Refuge. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Badlands5" by Paige Foster Commentary: "A rain gully or perhaps a dried-up creek bed in Badlands National Park, South Dakota." |
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| "Gully" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Gully" is used about 286 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) | 95.45% | 273 | 17,765 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.55% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 286 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gully" 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 |
| Gully | Last name | 1,000 | 10,620 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Gully, MN (city, FIPS 26270) |
Expressions using "gully": brush gully plug ♦ gully drain ♦ gully drain hole ♦ gully erosion ♦ Gully gut ♦ Gully hole. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gully": gully-head, gully-riven, gully-washer. | |
Ending with "gully": hully-gully. | |
| 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 |
hully gully | 65 | fern gully picture | 4 |
fern gully | 56 | gully hully london | 3 |
gully | 39 | crysta fern gully | 2 |
fern gully movie | 13 | ferntree gully holden | 2 |
fern forest gully last rain | 13 | britt gully | 2 |
control gully | 12 | golf gully mini stewarts | 2 |
erosion gully | 9 | character fern gully | 2 |
fern gully soundtrack | 6 | club green gully soccer | 2 |
gully trap | 5 | council gully tea tree | 2 |
gully transportation | 5 | fern gully jamaica | 2 |
emptiers gully | 4 | furn gully | 2 |
bell gully | 4 | gully hully london ontario | 2 |
fern gully lyrics | 4 | gully riddim | 2 |
gully mn | 4 | fern gully song | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "gully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grykë e thellë, vijë (ditch, line, range, rill, rivulet, rut, set, streak, stria, track), kanal (aqueduct, canal, chamfer, channel, conduit, cut, ditch, drain, duct, excavation, flute, Fosse, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, trench, tube, watercourse), hon (abysm, abyss, precipice). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجرى صخرى, واد (dene, ravine, valley), سكين كبيرة, خدد (channel, flute, furrow, groove, rut, spline), جدول (bayou, brook, chart, creek, flow, glen, gulch, gutter, index, list, panel, purl, register, rill, rivulet, runlet, runnel, scale, schedule, small stream, stagger, stream, table, tabulate, tally, wadi, water course). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сухо дере, канавка (ditch, gullet, gutter, kennel, runnel, trench, wayside), водосток (culvert, outfall), олук (channel, gutter), образувам дере, набраздявам (furrow, gutter, line, rib, ridge, seam), жлебова релса, пороище (flood bed, gulch), дренажен кладенец. (various references) | |
Chinese | 沟壑 (Gullies), 壑 . (various references) | |
Czech | strž (Coomb, gorge, gulch, ravine), rokle (chasm, Glen, gorge, ravine), úžlabina (hollow, ravine). (various references) | |
Danish | nedløbsbrønd (cesspool, gulley, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully), nedløb (gulley, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully), indloebsbygvaerk, erosionskløft. (various references) | |
Dutch | geul (furrow, wrinkle), trottoirkolk (gulley, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully), straatkolk (gulley, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully), kolk (abyss, chasm, depth, gulf, pond, precipice), duikereind, bergkloof (chasm, cleft, gorge, ravine). (various references) | |
Esperanto | montfendo (chasm, cleft, gorge, ravine). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fjallaskarð (chasm, cleft, gorge, pass, ravine). (various references) | |
Farsi | مجرا (Channel, Conduit, Cullis, Duct, Gullet, Runway, Strand, Tube, Vessel), کندن (Cutout, Dig, Gouge, Mine, Peel, Pick, Pluck, Pug, Pull, Rend, Scoop, Trench), کاریز (Canal, Drainpipe), کارد (Daggar, Knife, Stiletto), زهکش (Drain, Drainpipe), ابکند (Gorge, Ravine), ابگذر (Conduit, Dike, Drain, Drainpipe, Gulch, Gullet), راه اب (Ditch, Lead), دره کوچک (Dale), درست کردن (Adapt, Address, Agree, Build, Clean, Compose, Concoct, Devise, Emend, Fix, Integrate, Make, Mend, Organize, Redd, Regulate, Right, Straighten, Trim, Weave). (various references) | |
Finnish | eroosiokuoppa. (various references) | |
French | ravine. (various references) | |
German | rinne (channel, chute, furrow, gap, groove, gutter, sluice). (various references) | |
Greek | χαντάκι (ditch, furrow, trench). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ואדי (ravine), ערוץ (bus, channel, cleft, ditch, gorge, gulch, ravine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vízmosás (corridor, couloir, donga, gulch, gullet, nullah, ravine), víznyelő akna. (various references) | |
Indonesian | selokan (brook, fosse, gutter), alur (channel, furrow, plot, slot). (various references) | |
Italian | trinca (messenger), solco d'erosione (ravine), solco (chute, furrow, groove, gutter, line, rut), ravina (ravine), pozzetto stradale (gulley, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully), pozzetto di scolo (gulley, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully), opera d'invaso, condotto (barrel, channel, conducted, conduit, duct, pipe, piped, shaft, tube), chiavicotto (gulley, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully), canalone (Canyon), canale (canal, channel, cut, ditch, drain, duct, program, programme, trough), burrone (abyss, Canyon, chasm, gorge, gulch, gulf, precipice, ravine), bocchetta di fognatura (gulley, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ガラパゴス小羽鵜 (flightless cormorant, Gaul). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ガリー , ガリ . (various references) | |
Manx | gullad (creek, gullet, inlet), altan (mountain burn, streamlet). (various references) | |
Norwegian | renne, kløft (gap, ravine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ullygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sarjeta (fox earth, gutter, kennel, sough, trough). (various references) | |
Romanian | viroagã (gulch, ravine), vãgãunã (gorge, hollow, nook, ravine), tranşee (approaches, chase, cut, cutting, entrenchment, Fosse, sap, sconce, trench), rigolã (channel, ditch, drain, gutter, trench), jgheab (chase, conduct, cradle, eaves, flume, flute, groove, gutter, horse-pond, jet, notch, rifle, sewer, shoe, spout, trough, valley), fãgaş (channel, furrow, groove, path, rut, track, track of wheels, trend), cuţit mare, şanţ (channel, chase, dike, ditch, flute, Fosse, groove, gutter, moat, notch, rut, trench), ţurloi (hook, sewer). (various references) | |
Russian | овраг (coomb, coulee, ravine). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jaruga (coomb, gorge, gulch, ravine). (various references) | |
Spanish | sumidero (drain, sink, sinkhole, sump), quebrajar, quebrada (Brook, gulch, ravine), hacer barranca, chorrera (chute, gutter, ruffle), cárcava, boca de alcantarilla (gulley, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully), barranca (gorge). (various references) | |
Swedish | ravin (Chine, coulee, gap, gorge, Linn, ravine), ränna (channel, chute, furrow, groove, gutter, run, shoot, sluice, thrust). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำทางให้น้ำไหล, รางน้ำ (gullet, gutter), ห้วย (bog). (various references) | |
Turkish | suyolu (canal, channel, conduit, culvert, ditch, eaves, flume, gully drain, gutter, offtake, thoroughfare, trench, watercourse), sel yatağı, oluk (chamfer, channel, chase, chute, conduit, flute, gangway, gouge, groove, gully drain, gutter, rabbet, riffle, runnel, slot, spline, throat, trough), kanal (canal, chamfer, channel, chute, conduit, culvert, dike, drain, duct, flume, gullet, meatus, pass, passage, station, vessel), dere (Beck, bourn, Bourne, branch, Brook, burn, Creek, dale, kloof, rivulet, run, runlet, runnel, stream, Vale, valley, watercourse), çukur (cavity, concave, deep set, dimple, dip, excavation, gully drain, gutter, hole, hollow, indent, pit, scoop, sink, sunk, trench). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | утворювати яри, глибокий яр (coulee), водостік (bunny, drain, weeper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | ravine. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gully": gullying. (additional references) | |
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"Gully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galky, gaull, Gaulli, Geally, gely, glugly, gollie, gollly, goly, Goulmy, gruelly, Guell, Guillim, gul, gulal, Gulg, gulla, gulle, gulley, gullf, gullie, gullier, Gullo, gulpy, gulu, gurly, Gurlyi, guul, Gyulay, iglulik, julli, lully, rully, uglily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gully" (pronounced gu"lē) |
| 4 | g u" l ē | gulley. |
| 3 | -u" l ē | Cully, sully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-l-l-u-y" | |
-1 letter: gull, ugly. | |
-2 letters: gul, guy, lug. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-l-u-y" | |
+1 letter: gluily, glumly, gulley, uglily. | |
+2 letters: fugally, gulleys. | |
+3 letters: bullying, bullyrag, cullying, frugally, glumpily, guiltily, gullably, gullibly, gullying, plaguily, plugugly, pulingly, sullying, vulgarly. | |
+4 letters: angularly, bullyrags, fulgently, gainfully, gleefully, gradually, languidly, laughably, lingually, regularly, songfully. | |
+5 letters: alluringly, blurringly, blushingly, bumblingly, bunglingly, bustlingly, conjugally, exultingly, fumblingly, gesturally, ghastfully, ghoulishly, gloriously, gracefully, gratefully, gruelingly, guilefully, humblingly, laughingly, lullabying, metallurgy, nullifying, outyelling, puzzlingly, rightfully, singularly, sluggardly, sluggishly, surgically, vaultingly, vengefully, wrongfully. | |
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