different between gall vs rage
gall
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???l/
- (cot-caught merger) IPA(key): /??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Homophone: Gaul
Etymology 1
From Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ?ealla, from Proto-Germanic *gall?. Related to Dutch gal, German Galle, Swedish galle, galla, Ancient Greek ???? (khol?). Also remotely related with yellow.
Noun
gall (countable and uncountable, plural galls)
- (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
- (anatomy) The gall bladder.
- He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel shall strike him through. It is drawn and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
- Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
- 1683, John Dryden, The Art of Poetry
- The stage its ancient fury thus let fall, / And comedy diverted without gall.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIV:
- {...} I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall {...}
- (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter V
- It moves my gall to hear a preacher descanting on dress and needle-work; and still more, to hear him address the British fair, the fairest of the fair, as if they had only feelings.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter V
- (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
- 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Oakdale Affair, Chapter 6
- “Durn ye!” he cried. “I’ll lam ye! Get offen here. I knows ye. Yer one o’ that gang o’ bums that come here last night, an’ now you got the gall to come back beggin’ for food, eh? I’ll lam ye!” and he raised the gun to his shoulder.
- 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Oakdale Affair, Chapter 6
- (medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
- 1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass
- And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness, / And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
- 1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass
- (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
- 1989 National Ag Safety Database (Centers for Disease Control)
- Riding a horse with bruised or broken skin can cause a gall, which frequently results in the white saddle marks seen on the withers and backs of some horses.
- 1989 National Ag Safety Database (Centers for Disease Control)
- (countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
Derived terms
- gallbladder
- gallstone
Translations
Verb
gall (third-person singular simple present galls, present participle galling, simple past and past participle galled)
- (transitive) To bother or trouble.
- To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
- June 24, 1778, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington From the Original Manuscript Sources: Volume 12, 1745–1799
- The disposition for these detachments is as follows – Morgans corps, to gain the enemy’s right flank; Maxwells brigade to hang on their left. Brigadier Genl. Scott is now marching with a very respectable detachment destined to gall the enemys left flank and rear.
- June 24, 1778, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington From the Original Manuscript Sources: Volume 12, 1745–1799
- To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
- …he went awkwardly in these clothes at first: wearing the drawers was very awkward to him, and the sleeves of the waistcoat galled his shoulders and the inside of his arms; but a little easing them where he complained they hurt him, and using himself to them, he took to them at length very well.
- To exasperate.
- 1979, Mark Bowden, “Captivity Pageant”, The Atlantic, Volume 296, No. 5, pp. 92-97, December, 1979
- Metrinko was hungry, but he was galled by how self-congratulatory his captors seemed, how generous and noble and proudly Islamic.
- 1979, Mark Bowden, “Captivity Pageant”, The Atlantic, Volume 296, No. 5, pp. 92-97, December, 1979
- To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To scoff; to jeer.
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French galle, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).
Noun
gall (plural galls)
- (countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
- 1974, Philip P. Wiener (ed.), Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Even so, Redi retained a belief that in certain other cases—the origin of parasites inside the human or animal body or of grubs inside of oak galls—there must be spontaneous generation. Bit by bit the evidence grew against such views. In 1670 Jan Swammerdam, painstaking student of the insect’s life cycle, suggested that the grubs in galls were enclosed in them for the sake of nourishment and must come from insects that had inserted their semen or their eggs into the plants.
- 1974, Philip P. Wiener (ed.), Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
- 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, Chapter 21
- But first for your Line. First note, that you are to take care that your hair be round and clear, and free from galls, or scabs, or frets: for a well- chosen, even, clear, round hair, of a kind of glass-colour, will prove as strong as three uneven scabby hairs that are ill-chosen, and full of galls or unevenness. You shall seldom find a black hair but it is round, but many white are flat and uneven; therefore, if you get a lock of right, round, clear, glass-colour hair, make much of it.
- 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, Chapter 21
Synonyms
- nutgall
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
gall (third-person singular simple present galls, present participle galling, simple past and past participle galled)
- To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)
See also
Gall (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan gal), from Latin gallus (compare Spanish gallo, Portuguese galo).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /??a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
gall m (plural galls)
- rooster, cock
Derived terms
See also
- gallina
Further reading
- “gall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: gall
- Rhymes: -?l?
Adjective
gall (not comparable)
- Gallic (of or pertaining to Gaul, its people or language)
Declension
Noun
gall (countable and uncountable, plural gallok)
- Gaul (person)
- Gaul (language)
Declension
Related terms
- Gallia
Further reading
- gall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Verb
gall (strong)
- first-person singular past indicative of gjalla
- third-person singular past indicative of gjalla
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /???l??/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish gall (“foreigner”), from Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”). Related to Scottish Gaelic Gall (“foreigner”).
Noun
gall m (genitive singular gaill, nominative plural gaill)
- foreigner
- (derogatory) Anglified Irish person
Derived terms
- camán gall (“chervil”)
Related terms
- Gall
Etymology 2
Noun
gall m (genitive singular gaill, nominative plural gaill)
- Alternative form of gallán
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- "gall" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “gall” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “gall” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
gall m (genitive singular goill, plural goill)
- Alternative letter-case form of Gall
Welsh
Alternative forms
- geill (literary, third-person singular present/future)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /?a?/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?a??/, /?a?/
Verb
gall
- third-person singular present/future of gallu
- (literary, rare) second-person singular imperative of gallu
Mutation
References
gall From the web:
- what gallbladder do
- what gallon size pot for tomatoes
- what gallstones
- what gallstones look like
- what gallbladder
- what gallbladder does
- what gallstones feel like
- what gallagher are you
rage
English
Etymology
Old French rage (French: rage), from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabies (“anger, fury”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?d?/
- Rhymes: -e?d?
Noun
rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)
- Violent uncontrolled anger.
- A current fashion or fad.
- (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
- convulsed with a rage of grief
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVII (1609 Quarto)
- And your true rights be termed a poet's rage
Synonyms
- fury
- ire
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)
- (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
- (intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- (obsolete) To enrage.
Translations
Anagrams
- Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, gear
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ra???/, [?????]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *rak?n?, cognate with Swedish raka, English rake. Related to *rekan? (“to pile”) and *rakjan? (“to stretch”).
Verb
rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)
- to scrape
- (dated) to shave
- Synonym: barbere
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “rage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German r?ken (“to hit, reach”), from Proto-Germanic *rak?n?, cognate with Dutch raken (Swedish råka is also borrowed from Low German). Probably related ot the previous verb.
Verb
rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)
- (transitive, usually negated) to concern, to be of (someone's) business
- (transitive) to not concern, to not be any of (someone's) business
- 1967, Christian Kampmann, Sammen, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)
- Men det rager mig, hvad folk siger .
- 2007, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Submarino, Art People (?ISBN)
- “Det rager mig, hvad hun har lyst til.”
- 1967, Christian Kampmann, Sammen, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)
Inflection
References
- “rage,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 3
From German ragen (“to jut, stick out”), from Proto-Germanic *hrag?n?, cognate with Old English oferhragan.
Verb
rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)
- to jut, stick out, stand out
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “rage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ra?.??/
- Hyphenation: ra?ge
- Rhymes: -a???
Noun
rage f or m (plural rages)
- craze, fad, fashion.
Synonyms
- hype, modegril
Derived terms
- Pokémonrage
French
Etymology
From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabies.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
Noun
rage f (plural rages)
- rage (fury, anger)
- 1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179.
- 1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179.
- rabies (disease)
- 1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47.
- 1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47.
Derived terms
- enrager
- fou de rage
- faire rage
- rage de dents
- rage au volant
- vert de rage
Further reading
- “rage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- gare, garé, géra
German
Verb
rage
- inflection of ragen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Norman
Etymology
From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabi?s (“anger, fury”).
Noun
rage f (plural rages)
- (Jersey) rabies
Old French
Alternative forms
- raige (uncommon)
Noun
rage f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)
- rage; ire; fury
Romanian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragere. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?rad??e]
Verb
a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.
- (of animals) to roar, howl, bellow
Conjugation
Derived terms
- r?get
See also
- urla, mugi, ?ipa, zbiera
rage From the web:
- what rage means
- what rages
- what ragged means
- what rage broadhead is the best
- what's rage cage
- what's rage game
- what's rage mode
- what's rage inducing
you may also like
- gall vs rage
- nutriment vs victuals
- diminutive vs elfin
- force vs prescribe
- dissimilar vs discordant
- congruous vs correspondent
- ingenuously vs artlessly
- though-provoking vs piquant
- appointment vs licence
- secure vs derive
- inviting vs piquant
- unholy vs iniquitous
- evil vs downfall
- aloof vs rigid
- suffering vs deterioration
- inactive vs insensible
- defender vs friend
- slight vs scarce
- encircle vs imply
- excise vs assessment