Gale meaning

Noun: gale

Pronunciation: ( geyl )

Gale meaning:

• A very strong wind or current of air from 51 – 102 kilometers per hour.

Synonyms: Gust, storm, gush

• An outburst of laughter.

Synonyms: outburst, guffaw

Quotations: Djuna Barnes – I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox – One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It’s the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Amy Walter – The Democrats need more than a strong breeze to pick up 15 seats. They need gale-force winds.

Retief Goosen – I think the course is definitely a better course. The course today was a perfect setup. Tomorrow, it might blow a gale, and we’ll all be moaning at things.

Adam Scott – I don’t think I’d want gale-force winds, but if it was a bit of a breeze, maybe 10 mph. I think that would find the best golfer over the weekend. When it’s blowing a gale, there’s a lot of luck involved. If it was dead calm, then I don’t know if I’m hitting it close enough to run away with the guys who make a lot of birdies.

Sample sentences:

1. We played four or five holes without the wind. It just started slowly picking up. By the time we got to 6 or 7, it was full gale-force winds and they were there the rest of the day.
2. For the most part the majority of fishermen favored postponing it for a 24-hour period because of the gales that were forecast.
3. The relentless frequency of the gales and storms left little time for recovery.
4. Passions are the gales of life.
5. It wasn’t bad ’til 11 o’clock, when the winds picked up to gale force. About the time you’d think it was through, it would get worse.
6. Some people believe they can smoke in the car if they leave the window rolled down. You’d need a gale-force wind to get rid of all those chemicals.
7. Puget Sound Energy also performed well this quarter. For the first time in several years, our region was repeatedly hit by severe storms, nine in all during the first quarter, with gale-force winds knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of our utility customers. Our employees and crews worked around the clock to restore power, continuing on our unwavering commitment to our customers.
8. Few people have any concept of what it’s like to experience the extremes of the Southern Ocean . The relentless frequency of the gales and storms left little time for recovery.
9. Death to a godly man is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but to a wicked man it is an east wind, a storm, a tempest, that hurries him away in confusion and amazement, to destruction.
10. We sailed very hard all through the race. It wasn’t a technically hard leg, there were no icebergs or gales, but it was very physical, long and intense. So it makes the end result very sad.