different between rally vs gally
rally
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æ.li/
- Rhymes: -æli
Etymology 1
From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).
Noun
rally (plural rallies)
- A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
- A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
- (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
- (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
- (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
Hyponyms
- (increase in value): dead cat bounce
Translations
Verb
rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)
- To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
- To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
- 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[1]
- The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.
- The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
- 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[1]
- To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
- (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
Synonyms
- (gather, unite, especially troops): muster
- (increase in value): bounce back, rebound
Antonyms
- (increase in value): decline
Derived terms
- rallying point
Translations
Etymology 2
From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”).
Verb
rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)
- (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
- Honeycomb […] rallies me after his way upon my country life.
- 1713, John Gay, The Fan
- Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.
Noun
rally (uncountable)
- Good-humoured raillery.
References
- rally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Ryall
Czech
Noun
rally f
- rally (motor racing event)
Synonyms
- rallye f
Italian
Etymology
From English rally
Noun
rally m (invariable)
- rally event involving groups of people
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English rally
Noun
rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally or rallyer, definite plural rallya or rallyene)
- a rally (e.g. in motor sport)
References
- “rally” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English rally
Noun
rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally, definite plural rallya)
- a rally (e.g. in motor sport)
References
- “rally” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Noun
rally m (plural rallys)
- Alternative spelling of rali
Spanish
Noun
rally m (plural rallys)
- rally
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gally
English
Etymology 1
Noun
gally (plural gallies)
- Archaic form of galley.
- 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:
- In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.
- 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:
Etymology 2
From gall +? -y.
Adjective
gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)
- Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXV:
- For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXV:
Etymology 3
See gallow (transitive verb).
Verb
gally (third-person singular simple present gallies, present participle gallying, simple past and past participle gallied)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To frighten; to worry.
- April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden
- The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]
- April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden
Etymology 4
gal +? -y
Noun
gally (plural not attested)
- Diminutive of gal (“girl”)
Synonyms
- girlie
References
Anagrams
- gyall
Hungarian
Etymology
From a Slavic language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [???j?]
- Rhymes: -?j?
Noun
gally (plural gallyak)
- twig
Declension
See also
- Appendix:Hungarian words with ly
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