Gale vs Rale - What's the difference?
gale | rale |
To sing; charm; enchant.
* Court of Love
To cry; groan; croak.
To talk.
(intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
To sing; utter with musical modulations.
(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.
(archaic) A light breeze.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) A song or story.
(nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
A shrub, also sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale ) growing on moors and fens.
(archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
(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:
* 1861 , Austin Flint, American Medical Times , 7 Dec 1961:
* 1894 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), Round Red Lamp :
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
- Can he cry and gale .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a gale of laughter
- A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
- And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.
- (Toone)
Coordinate terms
* (meteorology) breeze, hurricane, stormSee also
* Beaufort scaleVerb
(gal)Etymology 3
(etyl) (en)Noun
(Myrica gale) (Webster 1913)Etymology 4
(etyl)Noun
- Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
References
Anagrams
* ----rale
English
(rales)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- 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 .