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Dollar vs Gee - What's the difference?

dollar | gee |

As nouns the difference between dollar and gee

is that dollar is official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $ while gee is a gee-gee; a horse.

As an interjection gee is

a general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

As a verb gee is

to turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.

dollar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is .
  • (by extension) Money generally.
  • * Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
    • Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar , magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
  • Colloquially in the United Kingdom, a quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
  • * 1990 October 28, (Paul Simon), “Born at the Right Time”, (The Rhythm of the Saints) , Warner Bros.
    • We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
  • * 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard vol 504 col 271, 22 July 1952:
    • The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
  • * 1956 The Spectator Vol.197 p.342:
    • For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others : dollar' films and ' dollar tobacco.

    Coordinate terms

    afghani, ariary, baht, balboa, birr, bitcoin, bolivar, boliviano, cedi, colon, cordoba, dalasi, dinar, dirham, dobra, dogecoin, dong, dram, escudo, euro, florin, forint, franc, gourde, guarani, guilder, hryvnia, kina, kip, koruna, krona/kronor/krone, kuna, kwacha, kwanza, kyat, lari, lek, lempira, leone, leu, lev, lilangeni, lira, litas, Litecoin, manat, mark, metical, naira, nakfa, ngultrum, ouguiya, , pataca, peso, pound, pula, quetzal, rand, rial, rial/riyal, riel, ringgit, ruble, rufiyaa, rupee, rupiah, scudo, shekel, shilling, sol, som, somoni, sterling, taka, tala, tenge, togrog, vatu, won, yen, yuan, zloty

    Derived terms

    * Australian dollar * * BZD * dollar diplomacy * look like a million dollars * petrodollar * the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question * top dollar * US dollar

    See also

    * cent * dale * mill * mille * vale * valley ----

    gee

    English

    Etymology 1

    A shortening of (Jesus), perhaps as in the oath (by Jesus)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
    • Gee , I didn't know that!
    Gee , this is swell fun!
    Usage notes
    Gee'' is generally considered somewhat dated or juvenile. It is often used for ironic effect, with the speaker putting on the persona of a freshly-scrubbed freckle-faced kid from days gone by (e.g. 1950 sitcom children, such as Beaver on ).
    Synonyms
    * (exclamation of surprise) geez, gosh, golly
    Derived terms
    * gee whiz * gee whillikers, gee willikers, gee willickers

    Etymology 2

    Verb

  • (often as imperative to a draft animal) To turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
    • This horse won't gee when I tell him to.
    You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.
    Mush, huskies. Now, gee'''! ' Gee !
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
    • (Forby)
    Derived terms
    * gee haw whimmy diddle
    Coordinate terms
    * haw

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gee-gee; a horse.
  • * 1879 , , Act I:
  • *:You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee .

    • Etymology 3

    Pronunciation of the letter (G).

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees .
  • (slang) ; a thousand dollars.
    • ten gees
  • (physics) ; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1949 , month = July , first = Margaret , last = St. Clair , authorlink = Margaret St. Clair , title = Sacred Martian Pig , magazine = Startling Stories , page = 92 , passage = I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee , being from earth. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1987 , first = Tom , last = Clancy , authorlink = Tom Clancy , title = Patriot Games , page = 449 , passage = So if you fire the Phoenix inside that radius, he just can't evade it. The missile can pull more gees than any pilot can. }}
  • (US, slang) A guy.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 197:
    • Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.
    Related terms
    * gay (in shorthand)

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Ireland, slang) (vagina), (vulva) The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English p. 850, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0-415-25937-1.
  • * 1987 , (Roddy Doyle), (The Commitments) , King Farouk, Dublin:
    • The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee . Is tha' why?
  • * 1991 , (Roddy Doyle), , p. 65. Secker & Warburg (ISBN: 0-436-20052-X):
    • But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that....
  • * 1992 , (Samuel Beckett), (Dream of Fair to Middling Women) , p. 71. John Calder (ISBN: 978-0714542133):
    • Lily Neary has a lovely gee and her pore Paddy got his B.A. and by the holy fly I wouldn't recommend you to ask me what class of a tree they were under when he put his hand on her and enjoyed that.
  • * 1995 , (w, Joseph O'Connor), (Red Roses and Petrol) , p. 7. Methuen (ISBN: 978-0413699909):
    • And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.

    See also

    * ("gee" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    References

    English interjections ----