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name
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ballard County, Kentucky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Luna County, New Mexico.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, named after Lyman J. Gage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
Alternative spelling of gauge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, alt-of, alternative, transitive
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noun
A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Marijuana
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, slang, transitive, uncountable
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noun
A pint pot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
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noun
A drink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, countable, metonymically, slang, transitive, uncountable
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noun
A tobacco pipe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
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noun
A chamber pot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
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noun
A small quantity of anything.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
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noun
A quart pot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, obsolete, transitive, uncountable
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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noun
Initialism of Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
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verb
To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To bet or wager (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of gauge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, alt-of, alternative, transitive
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noun
a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: gauge
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Broader terms: measuring instrument, measuring system, measuring device
Narrower terms: anemometer, wind gauge, wind gage, depth gauge, depth gage, dipstick, gasoline gauge, gasoline gage, gas gauge, gas gage, petrol gauge, petrol gage, pressure gauge, pressure gage, rain gauge, rain gage, pluviometer, udometer, strain gauge, strain gage, surface gauge, surface gage, scribing block, vacuum gauge, vacuum gage, water gauge, water gage, water glass, wire gauge, wire gage
noun
street names for marijuana
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane
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Broader terms: cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, ganja
verb
place a bet on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bet on, back, stake, game, punt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bet, wager, play
Narrower terms: ante, parlay, double up
History
An occupational surname from Middle English gage, guage (“measure”) for an assayer, or gage (“pledge”) for a moneylender.
From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
See gauge.
Back-formation from greengage.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
