Word: gill
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Synonyms: gill
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: gill
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spanish
Translations:
branquia, agalla
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german
Translations:
heizrippe, kühlrippe, kieme, rippe, kehllappen
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french
Translations:
branchie
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portuguese
Translations:
gigantesco, guelra, brânquia
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dutch
Translations:
kieuw
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russian
Translations:
джил, девушка, жабры, возлюбленная, бородка
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norwegian
Translations:
gjelle
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danish
Translations:
gælle
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czech
Translations:
žábry
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polish
Translations:
skrzele, wypatroszyć
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hungarian
Translations:
szakáll, sugárlemez
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turkish
Translations:
solungaç
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greek
Translations:
βράγχιο
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ukrainian
Translations:
юнка, кохана, дівчина, борідка, зябра, дівча
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estonian
Translations:
eosleht, lõpus
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croatian
Translations:
škrga
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lithuanian
Translations:
žiauna
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macedonian
Translations:
жабри
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romanian
Translations:
branhii
The meaning and "use of": gill
noun
- the paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx. - Some others, like the Siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting oxygen from the water with their gills .
- the vertical plates arranged radially on the underside of mushrooms and many toadstools. - An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has gills in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.
- a unit of liquid measure, equal to a quarter of a pint. - The sets of weights were once the work tools of the county's pound police where they were used to measure the pounds, ounces, quarters and gills of an untold number of items.
- a deep ravine, especially a wooded one. - After sampling the cheese, walk to the neighbouring village of Hardraw, which is Old English for ‘shepherd's dwelling ’, and view Hardraw Force where Hearne Beck plunges nearly 100 ft into the deep ghyll below.
- a female ferret. - A female ferret is called a jill while a male is called a hob.
- gut or clean (a fish). - Immediately after this, gut and gill all fish you wish to eat.
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