gatherer | (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, collector |
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(noun) a person who gathers | - |
gathering | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, assembly |
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(noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gather |
(noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gather |
(noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: assemblage |
gator | (noun) either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts | Synonyms: alligator |
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gauche | (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: graceless, unpolished |
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gaucheness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity |
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gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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(noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |
gaucho | (noun) a cowboy of the South American Pampas | - |
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gaud | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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gaudery | (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: pomp |
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gaudily | (adverb) in a tastelessly garish manner | Synonyms: garishly, tawdrily |
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gaudiness | (noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation | Synonyms: garishness |
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(noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
gaudy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty |
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(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
(noun) (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held at a college | - |
gauffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: goffer |
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(noun) an iron used to press pleats and ridges | Synonyms: gauffering iron, goffer, goffering iron |
(verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: goffer |
gauge | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | Synonyms: gage |
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(noun) the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train | - |
(noun) the thickness of wire | - |
(noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, caliber, calibre |
(noun) accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared | Synonyms: standard of measurement |
(verb) measure precisely and against a standard | - |
(verb) adapt to a specified measurement | - |
(verb) mix in specific proportions | - |
(verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, guess, judge |
(verb) determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation | - |
(verb) rub to a uniform size | - |
gaumless | (adjective) (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality | Synonyms: gormless |
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gaunt | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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gauntlet | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim | Synonyms: gantlet |
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(noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | Synonyms: gantlet, metal glove |
(noun) a glove with long sleeve | Synonyms: gantlet |
(noun) to offer or accept a challenge | Synonyms: gantlet |
gauntleted | (adjective) wearing a protective glove | - |
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gauntness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, maceration |
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gauntry | (noun) a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. | Synonyms: gantry |
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gaur | (noun) wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India | Synonyms: Bibos gaurus |
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gauss | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter | - |
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gaussmeter | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: magnetometer |
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gauze | (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: netting, veiling |
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(noun) (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings | Synonyms: gauze bandage |
gauzy | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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gavage | (noun) feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat | Synonyms: forced feeding |
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gavel | (noun) a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge | - |
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gavial | (noun) large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout | Synonyms: Gavialis gangeticus |
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gavotte | (noun) an old formal French dance in quadruple time | - |
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(noun) music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte | - |
gawk | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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(verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawp, goggle |
gawker | (noun) a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness | - |
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gawkiness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant | Synonyms: ungainliness |
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gawky | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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gawp | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawk, goggle |
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gay | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: cheery, sunny |
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(adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, braw |
(adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: homophile, queer |
(adjective) given to social pleasures often including dissipation | - |
(adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, merry |
(adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
(noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: homo, homophile, homosexual |
gayal | (noun) ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur | Synonyms: Bibos frontalis, mithan |
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gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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gayly | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, happily, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
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gayness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness |
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gaywings | (noun) common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals | Synonyms: bird-on-the-wing, flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia |
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gazania | (noun) any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers | - |
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gaze | (noun) a long fixed look | Synonyms: regard |
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(verb) look at with fixed eyes | Synonyms: stare |
gazebo | (noun) a small roofed building affording shade and rest | Synonyms: summerhouse |
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gazelle | (noun) small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes | - |
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gazette | (noun) a newspaper or official journal | - |
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(verb) publish in a gazette | - |
gazetteer | (noun) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas) | - |
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(noun) a journalist who writes for a gazette | - |
gazillion | (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
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gazpacho | (noun) a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold | - |
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gazump | (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
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(verb) raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price | - |
gean | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: mazzard, mazzard cherry |
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gear | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: cogwheel, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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(noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, paraphernalia |
(noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gearing, geartrain, power train, train |
(noun) a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) | Synonyms: gear mechanism |
(verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: pitch |
gearbox | (noun) the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed | Synonyms: gear box, gear case |
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geared | (adjective) equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged | - |
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gearing | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, geartrain, power train, train |
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gearmotor | (noun) a motor combined with a set of speed-reducing gears. | - |
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gearset | (noun) a set of gears | - |
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gearshift | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearstick, shifter |
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gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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geartrain | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, power train, train |
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gecko | (noun) any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless | - |
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gee | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated | Synonyms: g-force, g |
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(verb) give a command to a horse to turn to the right side | - |
(verb) turn to the right side | - |
geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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geek | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball |
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(noun) a carnival performer who does disgusting acts | - |
(verb) to be intoxicated | - |
geeked | (adjective) High on a drug such as cocaine | - |
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geezer | (noun) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric | - |
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geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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gegenschein | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: counterglow |
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geisha | (noun) a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing | Synonyms: geisha girl |
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gel | (noun) a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects | Synonyms: gelatin |
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(noun) jellylike substance used in hair styling | Synonyms: hair gel |
(noun) a colloid in a more solid form than a sol | Synonyms: colloidal gel |
(verb) apply a styling gel to | Synonyms: mousse |
(verb) become a gel | - |
gelatin | (noun) a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects | Synonyms: gel |
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(noun) an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods | Synonyms: jelly |
(noun) a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin | Synonyms: gelatine |
gelatine | (noun) a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin | Synonyms: gelatin |
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gelatinise | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
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(verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
gelatinize | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
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(verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
(verb) coat with gelatin | - |
gelatinlike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinous, jellylike |
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gelatinous | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, jellylike |
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gelatinousness | (noun) the property of having a viscosity like jelly | Synonyms: glutinosity, glutinousness |
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geld | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: cut |
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gelded | (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: cut, emasculated |
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gelding | (noun) castrated male horse | - |
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gelechiid | (noun) small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests | Synonyms: gelechiid moth |
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gelid | (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, glacial, icy, polar |
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gelidity | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: chill, iciness |
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gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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gelly | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelignite |
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gelt | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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gem | (noun) a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: jewel, precious stone |
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(noun) art highly prized for its beauty or perfection | Synonyms: treasure |
(noun) a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan | Synonyms: muffin |
(noun) a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: jewel |
(noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gemstone, stone |
gemfibrozil | (noun) medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood | Synonyms: Lopid |
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geminate | (noun) a doubled or long consonant | - |
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(verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
(verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
(verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
(verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
gemination | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: duplication |
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(noun) the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect) | - |
gemma | (noun) small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual | - |
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gemmation | (noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: pullulation |
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gemmed | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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gemmiferous | (adjective) bearing or reproducing by a gemma | - |
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gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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gempylid | (noun) snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide | - |
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gemsbok | (noun) large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | Synonyms: gemsbuck, Oryx gazella |
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gemsbuck | (noun) large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | Synonyms: gemsbok, Oryx gazella |
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gemstone | (noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gem, stone |
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gen | (noun) informal term for information | - |
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gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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