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A gale is a strong wind; the word is typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts. The U.S. National Weather Service defines a gale as sustained surface wind moving at a speed between 34 and 47 knots (63.0 and 87.0 km/h ; 17.5 and 24.2 m/s ; 39.1 and 54.1 mph ). [ 1 ]
Gale as a man's name is from an English surname, ultimately from Middle English gaile "jovial". As a woman's name, it is a short form of the biblical name Abigail . [ 1 ] It can also be used as a form of the name Galen, a name derived from that of the ancient Greek physician , meaning "tranquil."
Gale warnings (and gale watches) allow mariners to take precautionary actions to ensure their safety at sea or to seek safe anchorage and ride out the storm on land. Though usually associated with deep low-pressure areas , winds strong enough to catalyze a gale warning can occur in other conditions too, including from anticyclones , or high ...
Roger Gale (born 1943), English politician; Shaun Gale (born 1969), English former footballer; Shirley Gale (1915–2008), American botanist, botanical illustrator, and conservationist; Terry Gale (born 1946), Australian golfer; Theophilus Gale (1628–1678), English theologian; Thierry Gale (born 2002), Barbadian footballer; Thomas Gale (c ...
Abby, Abbie, Abbey, Abi, Gail, Gayle, Gale Abigail is a feminine given name . The name comes from the Biblical Hebrew : אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל ʾĂḇīḡayīl , meaning "my father's joy" (alternatively "my father is exulted" or "my father is joyful", among others).
Beaulah Bar in De Waterkant, Cape Town, takes its name from the Gayle word for "beautiful". [2]Gayle, or Gail, is an English- and Afrikaans-based gay argot or slang used primarily by English and Afrikaans-speaking homosexual men in urban communities of South Africa, and is similar in some respects to Polari in the United Kingdom, from which some lexical items have been borrowed.
Gale (Ancient Greek: Γαλῆ, romanized: Galê, lit. 'weasel, marten' pronounced [galɛ̌ː] ) is a minor character in Greek mythology . She was a very skillful witch who earned the wrath of Hecate , the Greek goddess of magic.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...