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gal
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gal has 3 senses
- gal(n = noun.quantity) gallon - United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters; Array is a kind of united states liquid unit
- gal(n = noun.quantity) Array - a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo); Array is a kind of acceleration unit
- gal(n = noun.person) Array - alliterative term for girl (or woman); Array is a kind of fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman
has parts: quart
is a part of barrel, bbl
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gal, n. sl. a girl.
gal, n. Physics a unit of acceleration for a gravitational field, equal to one centimetre per second per second.
Etymology
Galileo: see GALILEAN(1)
THESAURUS
gal
babe, baby, broad, chick, colleen, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, doll, filly, frail, girl, girlie, heifer, hoyden, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lady friend, lass, lassie, little missy, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, miss, missy, mouse, nymphet, piece, quail, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, skirt, slip, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, virgin, wench, young creature, young thing
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