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Definition: Gal |
GalNoun1. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters. 2. A unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo). 3. (informal) alliterative term for girl (or woman). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | GAL |
Aerospace | (From Galileo). A unit of acceleration equal to 1 centimeter per second per second, or 1000 milligals.The gal and milligal are used in measuring the acceleration of gravity. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | Acceleration of one centimetre per second. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A unit of acceleration, used in gravity measurements: 1 Gal = 1 cm/s 2 . The Earth's normal gravity is 980 Gal. The term is not an abbrev.; it was invented to honor the memory of Galileo.See also:milligal. (references) |
Space | Unit of gravity field measurement corresponding to a gravitational acceleration of 1 cm/sec2. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
GAL | English | Gallus adenovirus like | N/A |
GAL | French | Groupe d'action locale | European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: GalSynonym: gallon (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gal |
| Specialty definitions using "gal": barrel of oil ♦ DERRICK ♦ Galatia, Generic Array Logic ♦ high-expansion foam ♦ milligal ♦ Samaritan Pentateuch ♦ Thiess process. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (gallic, gaul, gaulish), Danish (odd, peculiar, strange), Dutch (bile, gall), Norwegian (mad, odd, peculiar, strange), Occitan (cock), Portuguese (galileo), Romanian (gaul, welshman), Scottish (nf.ind. weeping, weeping), Serbo-Croatian (gaul), Turkish (gal, gaul). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, well I'll tell ya, she's a full figured gal! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don't think I could handle any more (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby) I'm supporto gal. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Take a look at the dizzy old gal with the goat (My Man Godfrey; writing credit: Eric Hatch; Morrie Ryskind) Honey, I'd suck the alcohol out of a deodorant stick, so you're asking the wrong gal. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
Lyrics | Ain't got no gal to make you smile ("Don't Worry Be Happy"; performing artist: Bobby McFerrin) Oh, well, I love you gal, yes, I love you Peggy Sue ("Peggy Sue"; performing artist: Buddy Holly) Some gal would giggle and I'd get red (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) I got a gal, named Daisy, ("Tutti Frutti"; performing artist: Little Richard) Gal nobody can tell you nuttin’ (Get Busy; performing artist: SEAN PAUL) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Taming Sutton's Gal (1957) News Gal (1951) The Gal Who Took the West (1949) That's My Gal (1947) Frontier Gal (1945) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown are four scientists conferring over a DNA gel. The scientists, featured in the video "Driving Forces" are Douglas Clark, Drs. Suzannah Gal, Robert Fleischmann and Bruce Troen who worked in NCI's Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology in 1987. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Fichtre! monsieur, vous voulez donc inonder ma maison? - Mon cher propriétaire,... / Benjamin. Chez Aubert gal. véro-dodat. Imp. d'Aubert et Cie. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | La Première Dent de Lait. / Chez Aubert gal. Vero-dodat. Imp d'Aubert & Cie. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | No, not if the old gal cleans out my bar. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hungarian gal" by Szabó Sándor Commentary: "She is my nice cousin. please contact me if you use this pic., she would be so happy :)." | "Gal on the phone" by Gabino Travassos Commentary: "My old roommate talking to her boyfriend. Excuse the blurriness. And the graininess. And the background clutter." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Spain | Under a 1999 law, the Government has compensated directly victims of terrorism and their families, including victims of the Antiterrorist Liberation Groups (government-sponsored death squads known by their acronym, GAL) in the 1980's. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Judy Sheindlin | Well, the tabloid has a picture of my husband walking in front of another gal who used to serve me poached eggs in the morning. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Gal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.97% of the time. "Gal" is used about 116 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) | 93.97% | 109 | 31,132 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.45% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.59% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 116 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gal" 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 |
| Gal | Last name | 200 | 37,985 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gal": gal-related. | |
Ending with "gal": Delgado-gal, rub-up-a-gal, X-gal. | |
| 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 |
gal | 197 | costa gal tab | 11 |
gal costa | 58 | gal vid | 11 |
diaper gal | 57 | buffalo gal | 11 |
gal star war | 40 | gal galves | 11 |
easy gal | 29 | gal tv | 10 |
gal bladder | 25 | gal friday | 10 |
gal index jpg | 23 | gal hot | 9 |
gal search | 22 | sleepy time gal | 9 |
gal pal | 21 | sexy gal | 9 |
gal porn star | 18 | gal got | 9 |
gal oklahoma | 18 | gal party | 9 |
big gal | 18 | gal vivid | 8 |
hans gal | 18 | banger gal | 8 |
55 gal drum | 17 | carol classy gal | 7 |
gal sundances | 15 | classy gal | 7 |
x gal | 14 | fashion gal | 7 |
gal stone | 14 | basketball camp gal tall | 7 |
gal vids | 13 | gal programmer | 6 |
gal ko | 12 | costa fotos gal | 6 |
gal new | 12 | aussie gal | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "gal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vajzë (babe, chicken, child, colleen, damsel, daughter, demoiselle, female, girl, girlie, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, Miss, petticoat, puss, unmarried girl, wench). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | момиче (bint, girl, lass, muslin, number, piece, pigeon, wench). (various references) | |
Chinese | 加仑 (gallon). (various references) | |
Farsi | واحدشتاب =یک سانتی متربرمجذورثانی , دختر (Daughter, Girl, Girlie, Lass, Maid, Quean, Sissified, Sissy, Wench). (various references) | |
French | indigner. (various references) | |
German | mädel (gals, girl, girlie, lass, lassie). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lány (bint, daughter, fille, girl, girly, lass, maiden, wench, wool). (various references) | |
Italian | ragazza (girl, girl friend, lass, maid, missy, Moll, wench). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ギターの弦 (boy, fee paid to performing artists, gadget bag, gag, gallery, gammon, gap, gather, gathered skirt, gibberellin, gift, gift card, gift certificate, gift check, gift coupon, gift package, gift shop, gimmick, give up, give-and-take, guarantee, guignol, Guiness Book of Records, guitar amplifier, guitar magazine, guitar string, guitar synthesizer, guitarist, gypsum, kind of Indian spice, male waiter, teenage mother). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ギャル . (various references) | |
Korean | 갤런 (gallon). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | algay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | moc,a, moça (backfish, colleen, female, girl, lass, maid, may, peat, she, wench, young woman, youngling). (various references) | |
Russian | девчонка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sekretarica (sec, secretary), žena za sve. (various references) | |
Spanish | galón (bar, binding, braid, chevron, gallon, galloon, gold braid, lace, riband, ribbon, stripe), niña (child, girl, infant, wench), muchacha (colleen, girl, lass, lassie, Molly, wench), moza (barmaid, call girl, chick, cutie, Dame, diva, girl, inamorata, junior, lass, lassie, treat, waitress, wench), criada (girl, help, housemaid, maid, maidservant, servant), chica (cutie, girl, lass, lassie, popcy, puss, sweetie, sweety, tootsy, wench), amiguita (girl, girlfriend). (various references) | |
Swedish | tjej (babe, baby, bint, broad, chick, colleen, Dame, girl, Jane, Judy, skirt), flicka (cobble, damsel, girl, lass, mend, Miss, patch, patch up, she, wench). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้หญิง (คำสแลง) (broad). (various references) | |
Turkish | gal (gaul), kız (babe, bird, bunny, chick, chicken, colleen, daughter, female, girl, Jenny, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, Miss, queen, wench). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дівчина (adolescent, celibate, colleen, demoiselle, doll, girl, lass, maiden, wench). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gal": gala, galabia, galabias, galabieh, galabiehs, galabiya, galabiyas, galactic, galactorrhea, galactorrheas, galactosamine, galactosamines, galactose, galactosemia, galactosemias, galactosemic, galactoses, galactosidase, galactosidases, galactoside, galactosides, galactosyl, galactosyls, galago, galagos, galah, galahs, galangal, galangals, galantine, galantines, galas, galatea, galateas, galavant, galavanted, galavanting, galavants, galax, galaxes, galaxies, galaxy, galbanum, galbanums, gale, galea, galeae, galeas, galeate, galeated, galena. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gal": algal, antifungal, apologal, argal, astragal, centrifugal, conjugal, diphthongal, egal, extralegal, frugal, fugal, fungal, galangal, gingal, illegal, infrugal, jingal, jugal, laryngal, legal, madrigal, medicolegal, milligal, monophthongal, nonlegal, paralegal, plagal, prelegal, prodigal, regal, rugal, springal, synagogal, syzygal, tergal, triphthongal, ultracentrifugal, unialgal, vagal, vasovagal, viceregal, warragal, warrigal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gal": acromegalic, acromegalics, acromegalies, acromegaly, agalloch, agallochs, agalwood, agalwoods, antiegalitarian, antifungals, argala, argalas, argali, argalis, argals, astragals, begall, begalled, begalling, begalls, bengaline, bengalines, bungalow, bungalows, centrifugally, centrifugals, chugalug, chugalugged, chugalugging, chugalugs, conjugalities, conjugality, conjugally, cytomegalic, cytomegalovirus, cytomegaloviruses, egalitarian, egalitarianism, egalitarianisms, egalitarians, egalite, egalites, extragalactic, extralegally, farthingale, farthingales, frugalities, frugality, frugally, fugally, fungals. (additional references) | |
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"Gal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agal, Agcl, agj, agl, egal, gaal, gac, gael, gah, gai, gaj, gak, gald, Gali, Galk, galo, galp, galq, galr, galu, galz, gao, Gapl, gaq, gasly, gaull, gav, gaw, gawl, gax, gaz, Geall, gelb, gelc, gelk, gelp, gelu, gely, gfa, gial, gii, gik, gil, gla, glac, Glah, glak, glap, glau, glav, glaw, glax, gle, gma, gol, gral, Grall, gta, gual, gul, gwa, Gxa, gyak, Igalo, mgal, ngael, Ngalo, qal, Sgall, ual, ugla, zal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gal" (pronounced ga"l) |
| 2 | -a" l | Al, Bal, canal, chaparral, corral, dal, locale, morale, pal, Pascal, rationale, Sal, shall. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lag. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l" | |
-1 letter: ag, al, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l" | |
+1 letter: agly, alga, clag, egal, flag, gala, gale, gall, gals, gaol, glad, glia, goal, lags, lang, slag. | |
+2 letters: agile, aglee, aglet, agley, aglow, alang, algae, algal, algas, algid, algin, algor, algum, align, almug, along, angel, angle, argal, argil, argle, argol, bagel, belga, clags, clang, eagle, flags, fugal, gable, gaily, galah, galas, galax, galea, gales, galls, gally, galop, gaols, gault, gavel, gayal, gayly, glace, glade, glads, glady, glair, gland, glans, glare, glary, glass, glaze, glazy, gleam, glean, gleba, glial, glias, gloam, gloat, gnarl, goals, goral, graal, grail, gulag, gular, gyral, jugal, lagan, lager, laigh, large, largo, laugh, legal, liang, ligan, linga, logan, logia, plage, regal, rugal, slags, slang, vagal. | |
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