gale

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
    — It's blowing a gale outside.
  2. A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
  3. A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity. archaic
    — Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
  4. An outburst, especially of laughter.
    — a gale of laughter
  5. The personal mining plot of a freeminer.
    — As a rule the free miners do not work their own 'gales,' but dispose of them to capitalists.
  6. A light breeze. archaic,literary
    — A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
动词 v.
  1. To cry; groan; croak. dialectal,intransitive
  2. To sail, or sail fast.
  3. To talk. dialectal,intransitive
  4. To sing; utter with musical modulations. dialectal,transitive

词形变化

gales present,singular,third-person galing participle,present galed past gole past galed participle,past gole participle,past galen participle,past gales plural gales present,singular,third-person galing participle,present galed participle,past galed past gales plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bang like a dunny door in a gale gale force galelike galeproof near gale nightingale Schumpeter's gale severe gale strong gale whole gale
相关词
Beaufort scale galeage galee
并列词
breeze hurricane storm

词源

词源 1
From Middle English galen, from Old English galan (“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, scream, charm away”). Cognate with Danish gale (“to crow”), Swedish gala (“to crow”), Icelandic gala (“to sing, chant, crow”), Dutch galm (“echo, sound, noise”). Related to yell.
词源 2
From Middle English gale (“a wind, breeze”), possibly from Old English galan, possibly an unknown North Germanic origin, related to Icelandic gola (“a breeze”), Danish gal (“furious, mad”), both from Old Norse gala (“to sing”), and thus ultimately related to the above word (etymology 1).
词源 3
From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, gaȝel, gagel, from Old English gagel, gagelle, gagille, gagolle (“gale; sweet gale”), from Proto-West Germanic *gagul, from Proto-Germanic *gagulaz (“gale; sweet-willow”). Cognate with Scots gaul, gall (“bog-myrtle”), Dutch gagel (“wild myrtle”), German Gagel (“myrtle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður (“sweet-gale; myrtle”).
词源 4
From Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.
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