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noun
- (architecture) The triangular area of wall adjacent to two sloped roofs.
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noun
- Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc.
| | Galilee |
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proper noun
- A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.
- The w:Sea of Galilee, Sea of Galilee.
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noun (galler, ies)
- A, institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of work of art, works of art.
- An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
- uppermost, Uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
| | garderobe |
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noun
- Historical: A store room or wardrobe.
- Historical: A lavatory. Usually in a castle built into the outer wall, with vent directly over the moat or midden.
| | gargoyle |
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noun
- A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
- A decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
- (context, slang, pejorative) An ugly woman.
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noun - A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
- A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
- (context, paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
- (context, paganism) A word for a location or sacred space, as used in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry .
| | geometrics |
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noun (plural)
- A design made from geometric figures
- The geometric characteristics of something
| | girdle |
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noun
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
- A belt; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- The zodiac; also, the equator.
- The line of greatest circumference of a w:Diamond cut, brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- A thin bed or stratum of stone.
- The clitellus of an earthworm.
- A griddle.
verb (girdl, ing)
- (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
- (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
| | Gothic |
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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.
| | grid |
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noun
- A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
- You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole . — line from the motion picture w:Die Hard, Die Hard
- (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
- (cartography) A method of mark off, marking off maps into areas.
| | groin |
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noun
- the long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs
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