gill
pronunciation
How to pronounce gill in British English:
UK [ɡɪl , dʒɪl]
How to pronounce gill in American English:
US [ɡɪl , dʒɪl]
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- Noun:
- a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
- a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
- any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
- respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
Word Origin
- gill
- gill: English has three separate words gill. The oldest, gill ‘ravine’ [11], was borrowed from Old Norse gil, a word of unknown ancestry. Gill ‘fishes’ breathing organ’ [14] probably also comes from an Old Norse *gil, never actually recorded, but deduced from modern Swedish gäl and Danish gjælle ‘gill’. It may well go back to a prehistoric Indo-European source which also produced Greek kheilos ‘lip’. Gill ‘quarter of a pint’ [14] comes via Old French gille from medieval Latin gillo ‘water-pot’.
- gill (n.1)
- "organ of breathing in fishes," early 14c., of unknown origin, perhaps related to Scandinavian words, such as Old Norse gjölnar which perhaps means "gills," and Old Danish -gæln (in fiske-gæln "fish gill"); said to be ultimately from a PIE *ghel-una- "jaw" (cognate: Greek kheilos "lip"). Related: Gills.
- gill (n.2)
- liquid measure (commonly a half-pint), late 13c., from Old French gille, a wine measure, and from Medieval Latin gillo "earthenware jar," words of uncertain origin, perhaps related to the source of gallon.
- Gill
- fem. proper name, shortened form of Gillian. Also see Jill. Gill-flirt "giddy young woman" is from 1630s.
Example
- 1. In february , gill was also interviewed by blog techcrunch about his analysis .
- 2. Gill followed her model by moving into public speaking and minority business consulting .
- 3. Gets it over to gill . He scored !
- 4. Freed from the need to worry about how to make what they design , the company 's engineers have found that the optimum shape resembles a fish gill .
- 5. " Refrigerators and computers also started out the same way , " says alan bodner , founder of like-a-fish technologies , about the artificial gill system he is developing .