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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: Gail

Etymology 1

From Middle English galen, from Old English galan (“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galan? (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?el- (“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.

Verb

gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past galed or gole, past participle galed or galen)

1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; charm; enchant.
   • c. 1346, Geoffrey Chaucer, Court of Love

     Can he cry and gale.

2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
3. (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
4. (intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
5. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gale (“a wind, breeze”), probably of 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).

Noun

gale (plural gales)

1. (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii:

     With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a few months. But on arrival there, friends told my brother that the Indian Ocean was rough in June and July, and as this was my first voyage, I should not be allowed to sail until November. Someone also reported that a steamer had just been sunk in a gale. This made my brother uneasy, and he refused to take the risk of allowing me to sail immediately.

2. An outburst, especially of laughter.
   • 1972, International Association of Seed Crushers, Congress [proceedings]

     The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval.

3. (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
4. (obsolete) A song or story.

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Coordinate terms

• (meteorology): breeze, hurricane, storm

Derived terms

• gale force

Translations

See also

• Beaufort scale

Verb

gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past and past participle galed)

1. (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.

Etymology 3

From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, ga?el, gagel, from Old English gagel, gagelle, gagille, gagolle (“gale; sweet gale”), from Proto-Germanic *gagulaz (“gale; sweet-willow”). Cognate with Scots gaul, gall (“bog-myrtle”), Dutch gagel (“wild mytle”), German Gagel (“mytle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður (“sweet-gale; myrtle”).

Noun

gale

1. A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.

Noun

gale (plural gales)

1. (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.

   Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.

References

• gale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Gael, Lega, egal, geal, lage, leag

Awtuw

Noun

gale

1. fish

References

• Harry Feldman. A Grammar of Awtuw. (Pacific Linguistics: Series B, 94.) (1986)

Basque

Noun

gale

1. eagerness

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?l?/, [???æ?l?]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse to sing, crow, chant, from Proto-Germanic *galan?, cognate with Norwegian gale, Swedish gala, English gale.

Verb

gale (past tense galede, or (archaic) gol, past participle galet)

1. to crow (mostly of the sound of the cock)
2. to scream

Inflection

References

• “gale” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

gale

1. definite singular of gal
2. plural of gal

French

Etymology

Variant of galle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al/

Noun

gale f (plural gales)

1. scabies; mange

Further reading

• “gale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• égal, Gaël, gela

Italian

Noun

gale f

1. plural of gala

Anagrams

• gela, lega

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gala

Verb

gale (imperative gal, present tense galer, simple past gol or galte, past participle galt)

1. to make a sound characteristic of a rooster; to crow

Etymology 2

Adjective

gale

1. definite singular of gal
2. plural of gal

References

• “gale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

gale (present tense gjel, past tense gol, supine gale, past participle galen, present participle galande, imperative gal)

1. Alternative form of gala

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• galent

Adjective

gale

1. neuter singular of galen

Anagrams

• alge, egal, egla, lage, lega

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.l?/
• Homophone: gal?

Noun

gale

1. dative/locative singular of ga?a

Noun

gale

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of gala

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ch?z, IPA^(key): /t??i?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??iz/
• Rhymes: -i?z
• Homophone: qis

Etymology 1

From Middle English chese, from Old English ??ese, specifically the Anglian form ??se, from Proto-West Germanic *k?s?, borrowed from Latin c?seus. Doublet of queso.

Noun

cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cheeses)

1. (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
2. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
3. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
4. (uncountable, Britain) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
   • 1807 Nutt, F. (1807). The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionable Receipts. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Witten. United Kingdom: reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street.

     p.82-3, No.244. Damson Cheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace cheese in the same way···”

5. A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
6. (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
7. (uncountable, slang) Money.
8. (countable, Britain) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
9. (uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
10. (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
11. (vulgar, slang) Smegma.
12. (technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
    • 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation

      It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.

13. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
14. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
15. A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

Synonyms

• (product): See Thesaurus:cheese
• (money): See Thesaurus:money

Antonyms

• (circuitry): fill (“dummy pattern to increase pattern density”)

Hyponyms

• (dairy product): See Thesaurus:cheese

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: sis

Borrowings

Translations

See also

• cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cheese (recreational drug) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• butter
• cream
• milk
• turophile
• yogurt

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
2. (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
3. (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.

Derived terms

• cheese up

Interjection

cheese!

1. (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

Derived terms

• say cheese

Descendants

• ? Icelandic: sís
• ? Japanese: ??? (ch?zu)

Translations

Etymology 2

Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian ???? (??z, “thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".

Noun

cheese (uncountable)

1. (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
2. (slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.

Derived terms

• big cheese
• sub-cheese

References

Etymology 3

Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

1. (slang) To stop; to refrain from.

2. (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

Derived terms

• cheese it
• cheesed off

Etymology 4

From cheesy.

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

1. (video games) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter.

2. (video games) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

Synonyms

• (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game): rush, zerg