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Gale vs Rale - What's the difference?

gale | rale |

As nouns the difference between gale and rale

is that gale is (label) (ship propelled primarily by oars) while rale is rabble, riff-raff.

gale

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) galen, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

Verb

  • To sing; charm; enchant.
  • * Court of Love
  • Can he cry and gale .
  • To cry; groan; croak.
  • To talk.
  • (intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
  • To sing; utter with musical modulations.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
  • An outburst, especially of laughter.
  • a gale of laughter
  • (archaic) A light breeze.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
  • * Milton
  • And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.
  • (obsolete) A song or story.
  • (Toone)
    Coordinate terms
    * (meteorology) breeze, hurricane, storm

    See also

    * Beaufort scale

    Verb

    (gal)
  • (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
  • Etymology 3

    (etyl) (en)

    Noun

    (Myrica gale) (Webster 1913)
  • A shrub, also sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale ) growing on moors and fens.
  • Etymology 4

    (etyl)

    Noun

  • (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
  • Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
    References

    Anagrams

    * ----

    rale

    English

    (rales)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine, now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
  • * 1840 , CM Billard, A Treatise on the Diseases of Infants , page 416:
  • Michael Colot, aged fifteen days, of a strong constitution, not having been sick from the time of birth, was, on the 22nd of November, taken with a violent cough, accompanied with a rale which could be heard without recourse to auscultation.
  • * 1861 , Austin Flint, American Medical Times , 7 Dec 1961:
  • If you were to tell a patient that he had a ‘rhonchus’ in his chest, he would imagine that it was something formidable, while, if you said that he had a ‘râle ’ he would not be alarmed.
  • * 1894 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), Round Red Lamp :
  • But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale .

    Synonyms

    * crackles

    Anagrams

    * * * *

    See also

    * crackles, crepitations * bilateral; basal, basilar; bibasilar ----