gal

English Thesaurus

1. alliterative term for girl (or woman) (noun.person)

hypernym	:	fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman,
definition	:	a young woman (noun.person)

domain usage	:	colloquialism,
definition	:	a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech (noun.communication)

2. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	united states liquid unit,
definition	:	a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System (noun.quantity)

part holonym	:	quart,
definition	:	a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon (noun.quantity)

part meronym	:	barrel, bbl,
definition	:	any of various units of capacity (noun.quantity)

3. a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo) (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	acceleration unit,
definition	:	a unit for measuring acceleration (noun.quantity)