Word: gill
Category: gill
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Related words: 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
gill in spanish
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spanish
Translations:
branquia, agalla
gill in german
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german
Translations:
heizrippe, kühlrippe, kieme, rippe, kehllappen
gill in french
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french
Translations:
branchie
gill in portuguese
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portuguese
Translations:
gigantesco, guelra, brânquia
gill in dutch
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dutch
Translations:
kieuw
gill in russian
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russian
Translations:
джил, девушка, жабры, возлюбленная, бородка
gill in norwegian
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norwegian
Translations:
gjelle
gill in danish
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danish
Translations:
gælle
gill in czech
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czech
Translations:
žábry
gill in polish
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polish
Translations:
skrzele, wypatroszyć
gill in hungarian
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hungarian
Translations:
szakáll, sugárlemez
gill in turkish
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turkish
Translations:
solungaç
gill in greek
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greek
Translations:
βράγχιο
gill in ukrainian
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ukrainian
Translations:
юнка, кохана, дівчина, борідка, зябра, дівча
gill in estonian
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estonian
Translations:
eosleht, lõpus
gill in croatian
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croatian
Translations:
škrga
gill in lithuanian
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lithuanian
Translations:
žiauna
gill in macedonian
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macedonian
Translations:
жабри
gill in romanian
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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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