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noun
- A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a siuling).
- The name of the ensemble performing this style of music.
noun
- a subgenre of hip-hop music associated with urban street gangs; often contains violent misogynistic or homophobic lyrics
noun
- A French dance, either in 4/4 or 2/2 time.
noun <section begin=deNoun1def /> <section begin=enNoun1 />
- An inhabitant of Germany; a person of German descent.
<section end=deNoun1def /> proper noun
- An Indo-European language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Sí¼dtirol and Switzerland and a small part of Belgium.
adjective
- Relating to the country of Germany or to the German language.
noun
- (archaic) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
- (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
- (colloquial) A performing engagement by a musical group.
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I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond
- (colloquial) Any temporary job.
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I had this as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left
- (rare) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
verb ( gigs, gigging, gigged)
- To catch with a gig.
- To engage in musical performances.
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The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
- To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
- His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
noun gimel
- The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ×’.
proper noun
- A Swiss comune.
noun
- (music) merry; playful.
noun
- The act of gliding.
- (linguistics) semivowel, Semivowel
- (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent"s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
verb ( glides, gliding, glid, glid or glidden) ( glides, gliding, glided or (archaic) glode, glided or (archaic) glode)
- (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
- (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
- (transitive) To cause to glide.
noun ( glissandi)
- (music) A musical term that refers to either a continuous sliding one pitch to another (or "true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (or "effective" glissando).
noun
- a musical instrument of the percussion family of instruments, like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.
proper noun
- (given name, female)
noun (gongs)
- (musici) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer
- a medal or award
proper noun
- (Christianity) (alternative spelling of, gospel)
noun Goth"ic
- an extinct language, once spoken by the Goths in what is now Ukraine and Bulgaria.
adjective or gothic
- of or related to the Goth, Goths.
- of or related to the architecture, architectural style favored in western Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries.
- of or related to the goth subculture or lifestyle.
- of or related to a style of fictional writing emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious, desolate setting.
- of a style of elaborate calligraphy based on medieval writing, also called black letter.
- (typography) of a sans serif typeface using straight, even-width lines, also called typesetters gothic.
proper noun
- (given name, female) from the noun grace
noun
- (music) A note or group of notes written in smaller print, with or without a slash through it, to indicate that its note value does not count as part of the total time value of the measure.
noun ( grand)
- (US, colloquial) One thousand dollars.
- One thousand pounds sterling.
adjective
- Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.
- Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.
- Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.
- Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.
noun
- An accent used in French, Italian and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
verb ( graves, graving, graved or grove, graved or graven)
- (transitive) To dig. (Obs.) w:Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer.
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He hath graven and digged up a pit. "Ps. VII 16 (w:Book of Prayer, Book of Prayer).
- (transitive) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
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Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and on them the names of the children of Israel. "Ex. XXVIII.,9.
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This be the verse you for me / “Here he lies where he longs to be” " w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson, Requiem
- (transitive) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
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With gold men may the hearte . "w:Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer.
- (transitive) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
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O! may they graven in thy heart remain. "w:Matthew Prior, Prior.
- (transitive) To entomb; to bury. (Obs.) "w:Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer.
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Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. "w:William Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
- (context, transitive, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch " so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
- (intransitive) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
adjective ( graver, gravest)
- (obsolete) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
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His shield and great. "w:George Chapman, Chapman.
- Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
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Most potent, , and reverend seigniors. "w:William Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
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A and prudent law, full of moral equity. "W:John Milton, Milton.
- Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
- (music) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
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The thicker the cord or string, the more is the note or tone. "w:Moore, Moore (Encyc. of Music).
- (music) Slow and solemn in movement.
:: {Grave accent}. (Pron.) See the Note under Accent, n., 2.
noun
- Style of unaccompanied monotonic singing in the Catholic Church.
noun
- The surface of the Earth.
- terrain, Terrain.
- soil, Soil, earth.
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The worm crawls through the .
- The bottom of a body of water.
- basis, Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- background, Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- A soccer stadium.
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Manchester United's is known as Old Trafford.
- An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
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- The British equivalent is earth.
- A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
- (cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; that part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground)
verb
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- (transitive) To require a disobedient child to remain at home, usually as a punishment.
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The teenager's father decided to ground him for two weeks after he broke curfew again.
- (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
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Becasue of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
- (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
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Jones grounded to second in his last at-bat.
- (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease so as not to be run out
noun
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
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There is a of houses behind the hill.
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A of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
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He left town to join a Communist
- (grouptheory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
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Did you see the new jazz ?
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxy, galaxies that are near each other.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- (chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- (military) An air force formation.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (computing) In the Unix operating system, a number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
verb
- (transitive) To put together to form a group.
noun
- The deep, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal; a grumbling sound.
- The sound made by a hungry stomach.
verb
- (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
- (transitive) To express (something) by growling.
noun
- A stringed musical instrument, usually with fretted fingerboard and 6 strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
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