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gantry [gan-tree]

noun

1. a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.

2. any of various spanning frameworks, as a bridge-like portion of certain cranes.

3. a frame consisting of scaffolds on various levels used to erect vertically launched rockets and spacecraft.

4. a frame-like stand for supporting a barrel or cask.

examples
1. "On the field there were a couple of large gantry cranes, a rocket pad, three warehouses, a truck garage, and a dormitory." The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.

2. Inspired by natural cave formations, the 6-meter (20-feet) tall, 50-square-meter (538-square-foot) house took just 14 days to print on site — from foundation to rooftop parapet — using a giant gantry printer, says Igarashi. Rebecca Cairns, CNN Money, 7 May 2026

origin
Middle English gauntree, reshaping of ganter, borrowed from Anglo-French ganter (Old French —Picard— gantier, Old French chantier), going back to Latin cantērius, canthērius "horse of poor quality, rafter, prop for vines," akin to Greek kanthḗlia "panniers," (ónos) kanthḗlios "pack ass," both loanwords from an undetermined Mediterranean language

gantry

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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Gestalt (noun)
gestalt [guh-shtahlt, -shtawlt, -stahlt, -stawlt]

noun (sometimes initial capital letter), plural gestalts, gestalten
1. a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
2. an instance or example of such a unified whole.

Related Words
composition, contour, shape, structure

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Origin: 1920–25; < German: figure, form, structure

Example Sentences
Or, as in “Stranger Things” and “Weapons,” the gestalt entity may be ruled by one being devoted to conquest and control.
From Salon

And if you take things out, you’re losing the power of the gestalt, essentially, of the larger gesture that they made.
From Los Angeles Times

On the title track, listeners are greeted with glitchy vocal samples before Joachim puts new elements into the gestalt, and quickly.
From New York Times

The two- or three-word tags, meant to convey the gestalt of a show or movie, regularly help viewers choose a show from the service’s nearly endless library, the company says.
From New York Times

The guides, it said, reflect “the whole gestalt of India’s association with sky and space.”
From Science Magazine

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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Grandfamily (noun)
grandfamily [grand-fam-uh-lee, fam-lee]

noun, plural grandfamilies
1. a family in which one or more children live with and are raised by their grandparent or grandparents: Grandfamilies exist because of absent parents, and the circumstances behind that can vary greatly from one case to the next.

Origin: First recorded in 1960–65; grand ( def. ) + family ( def. )

Example Sentences
“I hear from the grandfamily caregivers that they don’t want to be a part of ‘the system,’” Keith Lowhorne, vice president of kinship with the Alabama Foster and Adoptive Parents Association, said in the report.
From Washington Post

Gentry said she hopes more grandfamily communities like hers pop up around the country so residents can provide support for one another when resources are not readily available.
From Seattle Times

More older Americans are finding a haven in the “grandfamily housing” communities sprouting nationwide.
From New York Times

There are at least 19 grandfamily housing programs with on-site services across the United States, financed by a mix of public and private funding, according to Generations United, a nonprofit focused on intergenerational collaboration.
From New York Times

Projects are underway in Washington, D.C., and Redmond, Ore., and lawmakers in the House reintroduced the Grandfamily Housing Act, which would create a national pilot program to expand grandfamily housing.
From New York Times

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Gloze - noun or verb.

It seems my international sweet treat journey is over, and I'm diving into my Words with Friends screencap collection.

Gloze? Can it be used in a sentence? Sure, but this archaic Middle English word sounds clunky to modern ears. It can be used as a noun or verb has roots in the word glosen.

It can mean to flatter someone ("The congressman's gloze was evident during their campaign") or a note explaining something ("The manuscript for the play had a gloze in the margin").

If you're thinking gloze is similar to gloss over you would be right!

simplyn2deep

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Glair (noun, verb)
glair Or glaire [glair]

noun
1. the white of an egg.
2. a glaze or size made of egg white.
3. any viscous substance like egg white.

verb (used with object)
4. to coat with glair.

Other Word Forms
glairy adjective
glairiness noun

Origin: 1300–50; Middle English glaire < Old French: white of an egg < Vulgar Latin *clāria; compare Latin clārus clear

Example Sentences
If the gold should be injured in any way, the press must be tilted so as to allow a little glair to run under the gold to the spot and then a larger piece is laid over the faulty place.
From Project Gutenberg

One end is carefully lowered until the glair has run to one side and dripped off.
From Project Gutenberg

Slight flaws in the gold itself, or due to bubbles in the glair, may be put right by touching the faulty places with a small brush dipped in rectified spirit and immediately laying on a piece of gold; if the edges had not yet been gone over with the waxed rag, it would be sufficient to breathe on the place, lay on the gold, and burnish under paper.
From Project Gutenberg

Take care that no glair runs on to the fore-edge when applying it or when draining it off.
From Project Gutenberg

Then plenty of glair is applied and the gold quickly and truly laid on.
From Project Gutenberg

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goyle [or goyal] [gȯi(ə)l]

noun

dialectal, England: a steep narrow valley : RAVINE, GULLY

examples

1. These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

2. In front, where a goyle runs up to a hollow of the hill, the ground has been cleared of wood, and the forest of tall teazle-tops is full of goldfinches, flying from seed-head to seed-head, too tame to mind the noise or care for anything but their breakfast. The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

origins

Unknown. Its earliest known use dates back to the early 1600s, with the first recorded instance in 1617 by John Lane. The word is possibly derived from the term "gool," which also refers to a gully or depression. Found (initially) in the dialects of Somerset and Devon.

goyle

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Geyser (noun, verb)
geyser [ gahy-zer, -ser gee-zer ]

noun
1. a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air.
2. British Informal. a hot-water heater, as for a bath.

verb (used without object)
3. to spew forth as or like a geyser: the kettle geysering all over the stove.

Other Word Forms
gey ser·al gey ser·ic adjective

Related Words
gusher, hot spring

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Origin: 1755–65; < Icelandic Geysir name of a hot spring in Iceland, literally, gusher, derivative of geysa to gush

Example Sentences
There’s geysers of gore and a skinhead who gets turned into a tiki torch.
From Los Angeles Times

The wellspring of this geyser of asininity is the simple fact that Trump doesn’t understand how trade works.
From Los Angeles Times

The smoldering conditions also caused pressure to build, resulting in geysers of hazardous liquid waste bursting onto the surface and white smoke seeping out of long fissures.
From Los Angeles Times

Another one gave way in rural Yancey County last week, sending a geyser dozens of feet into the air.
From Salon

Observations from Earth and orbiting probes suggest that some of this water works through fissures in the ice and blasts through in geysers over a hundred miles high.
From Los Angeles Times

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gibus [jahy-buhs]

noun

1. opera hat, a collapsible top hat

examples

1. Ask little Tom Prig, who is there in all his glory, knows everybody, has a story about every one; and, as he trips home to his lodgings in Jermyn Street, with his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps, thinks he is the fashionablest young fellow in town, and that he really has passed a night of exquisite enjoyment. The Book of Snobs, 2006
2. Ispenlove stood leaning against the piano, as though intensely fatigued; he crushed his gibus with an almost savage movement, and then bent his large, lustrous black eyes absently on the flat top of it. Sacred and Profane Love, Arnold Bennett, 1899

origin

French gibus, from Gibus, name of its 19th century French inventor

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Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2025

Glissade (noun, verb)
glissade [ gli-sahd, -seyd ]

noun
1. a skillful glide over snow or ice in descending a mountain, as on skis or a toboggan.
2. Dance. a sliding or gliding step.

verb (used without object), glissaded, glissading.
1. to perform a glissade.

Other Words From
glis·sad er noun

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Origin: 1830–40; < French, equivalent to gliss ( er ) to slip, slide + -ade -ade

Example Sentences
For the glissade, Nancy glided over a few feet to the left.
From Literature

In the book, she glissades past this defining moment, which I would have liked to see her hold for a few more counts.
From Washington Post

From hiking a few miles to learning how to use an ice ax and glissade down a mountain, we trained and grew stronger together to ultimately reach the summit.
From Seattle Times

As I contemplated how to avoid glissading down the mountain, my phone powered down due to the cold and I lost my GPS tracker.
From Seattle Times

At about 7 a.m., around 300 dancers — boys and girls, men and women — took turns glissading across the concrete at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue, which was transformed into a scene from “Fame.”
From New York Times

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Fulminate: to explode like lightning

(Example: there are illnesses that are said to have a fulminant course)

Strand: the shore of a sea or lake

("By the sea-strand, a green oak stands, and a gold chain is on that oak; A learned cat is on that chain and keeps walking around the oak, day and night...")

Graupel: granular snow pellets

Snag: a dead tree

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guttiform [guht-uh-fawrm ]

adjective
1. shaped like a drop

examples
1. The slow drip froze and thawed alternately, leading to guttiform shapes that gradually covered the entire surface.
2. While earlier work has typically scored scale shape qualitatively (e.g. circular, oval, elongated, guttiform), it would be opportune for future comparative studies to make use of modern methods to quantify shape, such as the EFA described in the present study to precisely quantify interspecific shape variation and increase statistical power. Ontogenetic scaling patterns of lizard skin surface structure as revealed by gel-based stereo-profilometry (2019)

origin
probably from (assumed) New Latin guttiformis, from New Latin gutti- (from Latin gutta drop) + Latin -formis -form

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gamut (GAM-uht) - n., the entire scale or range (of something); including specifically, a) the whole series of recognized musical notes, b) all the colors that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

Originally, a single note -- and this story will take a while. In medieval Western Europe, the names of the notes of the scale were ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, after the first syllables of successive lines of a hymn to John the Baptist*, which walked up the scale. (Later, ut became do, for reasons I haven't tracked down, and si became ti.) The 11th century music theorist Guido d’Arezzo used Greek letters to name the lines on the staff, with gamma being the lowest line of the bass staff -- which gave the lowest possible note over all scales the name gamma ut, which in Middle English was shortened to gam(m)ut. At some point, still medieval times, the gamut came to mean not the lowest note of the scale, but the whole scale, and by further extension, any sort of complete range. The color gamut is a specific usage, which is both technical and seems to be largely British English usage.

* In full:
Ut queant laxis
resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
famuli tuorum,
Solve polluti
labii reatum,
Sancte Iohannes

---L.

calzephyr

Graupel - noun.

Did you know that hail has a tiny little cousin? I've lived in Canada my whole life and didn't know there was a name for the tiny pellets of snow that are too large to be snowflakes and too small to be proper hail. Graupel can be present during thunderstorms or snowstorms.

By Famartin - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

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Gigglemug - noun.

Victorian slang can be ever so delightful--gigglemug means what it says--a habitually smiling face.

med_cat

Gadzooks [gad-ZOOKS]
(interj.) [archaic]

- A minced (mild) oath used to express surprise, fear, joy, wonder etc.

A minced oath (sub-genre of euphemisms used to avoid swearing)

Euphemistic shortening of "God's Hooks" (the nails on the cross). - 1690s

Used in a sentence:
“Gadzooks, Charles, what ever did you do when you noticed she had no reflection?”

(from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)

As mentioned above, an archaism, but I had once come across it used humorously in the last verse of this poem:

The Common Cold

Go hang yourself, you old M.D!
You shall not sneer at me.
Pick up your hat and stethoscope,
Go wash your mouth with laundry soap;
I contemplate a joy exquisite
In not paying you for your visit.
I did not call you to be told
My malady is a common cold.

( Read more... )

med_cat

I heard it, of all places, in one of the recent current events/political discussions. The presenter said that Putin and Xi Jinping were both engaged in gatsbying.

...
"...So, anyway I recently came across this fascinating dating trend and I could really relate to this one because, let's face it, we've all done it once in our lives and reaped the benefits from it. Or not! The trend is called Gatsbying and yes, the relevance is derived from The Great Gatsby. Gatsbying is when you have a crush on someone and you want their attention upon you, you resort to social media, primarily Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook and put stories from your life, which may get you attention from your respective crush for them to notice you, so you can make a fair amount of an impression upon them! Yup, it's a very new-age trend and of course limited to urban dwellers who're fairly active on social media."

You can read more in this article from 2018: 'Gatsbying', The New Dating Trend, Is The Best Possible Way To Impress Your Crush Right Now

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Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023

Gregarious (adjective)
gregarious [ gri-gair-ee-uhs ]

adjective
1. fond of the company of others; sociable.
2. living in flocks or herds, as animals.
3. Botany. growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
4. pertaining to a flock or crowd.

OTHER WORDS FROM GREGARIOUS
gre·gar·i·ous·ly, adverb
gre·gar·i·ous·ness, noun
non·gre·gar·i·ous, adjective
non·gre·gar·i·ous·ly, adverb
non·gre·gar·i·ous·ness, noun
un·gre·gar·i·ous, adjective
un·gre·gar·i·ous·ly, adverb
un·gre·gar·i·ous·ness, noun

WORDS RELATED TO GREGARIOUS
affable, sociable, clubby, companionable, convivial, cordial, fun, outgoing, social

See synonyms for: gregarious / gregariousness on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR GREGARIOUS
1. social, genial, outgoing, convivial, companionable, friendly, extrovert

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1660–70; from Latin gregarius “belonging to a flock,” from greg- (stem of grex ) “crowd, flock, herd” + -arius -ary

HOW TO USE GREGARIOUS IN A SENTENCE
The face of this gregarious, appealing world traveler had become familiar to almost everybody, even those who had never seen Parts Unknown or any of his other shows.
ROADRUNNER ILLUMINATES ANTHONY BOURDAIN THE MAN—BUT ARE ITS MEANS TOTALLY LEGIT? | STEPHANIE ZACHAREK | JULY 16, 2021 | TIME

His father Charles, a gregarious Cuban whose parents were Turkish and Polish transplants, owned a steel-wool factory and expected to lose it in Castro’s imminent nationalization of businesses.
CAN ONE AGENCY KEEP THE U.S. SAFE AND STILL BE HUMANE? THE NEW DHS CHIEF THINKS SO | ALANA ABRAMSON | MAY 12, 2021 | TIME

As a young girl, she looked up to Willie Wood, the gregarious, hard-hitting defensive back.
MORE FOOTBALL LEADS TO WORSE CTE, SCIENTISTS SAY. CONSIDER NFL GREAT WILLIE WOOD. | RICK MAESE | MARCH 12, 2021 | WASHINGTON POST

Instead, Bond speculates that gregarious females might suffer less stress.
HAVING MORE FRIENDS MAY HELP FEMALE GIRAFFES LIVE LONGER | SUSAN MILIUS | FEBRUARY 25, 2021 | SCIENCE NEWS

He projected strength even while forced to follow orders, and was well liked and gregarious though in the end a mystery even to many who spent time with him.
THE MURDER CHICAGO DIDN’T WANT TO SOLVE | BY MICK DUMKE | FEBRUARY 25, 2021 | PROPUBLICA

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Grandidierite - noun.

Named for French explorer Alfred Grandidier, grandidierite is a mineral discovered in 1902 in Madagascar.

By Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

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Tuesday, Apr. 4, 2023

Gamut (noun)
gam·ut [gam-uht]

noun
1. the entire scale or range: the gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy.

2. Music.
a. the whole series of recognized musical notes.
b. the major scale.

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH GAMUT
gambit

WORDS RELATED TO GAMUT
spectrum, area, catalogue, compass, diapason, extent, field, panorama, scale, scope, series, sweep

See synonyms for gamut on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR GAMUT
1. sweep, breadth, scope, reach, extent.

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English, from Medieval Latin; contraction of gamma ut, equivalent to gamma, used to represent the first or lowest tone (G) in the medieval scale + ut (later do ); the notes of the scale (ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si) being named from a Latin hymn to St. John the Baptist: Utqueant laxis resonare fibris. Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes

HOW TO USE GAMUT IN A SENTENCE
Colors appear punchy and saturated thanks to the wide color gamut, and it’s plenty bright even in situations with a lot of ambient illumination.
THE NEW IPAD AIR IS THE BEST TABLET FOR MOST PEOPLE|STAN HORACZEK|OCTOBER 30, 2020|POPULAR-SCIENCE

Oyster recipes can run the gamut from raw to steamed to fancy preparations like oysters Rockefeller and oysters casino.
14 WILD EDIBLES YOU CAN PULL RIGHT OUT OF THE OCEAN|BY BOB MCNALLY/FIELD & STREAM|OCTOBER 19, 2020|POPULAR-SCIENCE

The rules they broke ran the gamut from missing deadlines to helping clients commit crimes.
MAINE HIRES LAWYERS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS TO DEFEND ITS POOREST RESIDENTS|BY SAMANTHA HOGAN, THE MAINE MONITOR, WITH DATA ANALYSIS BY AGNEL PHILIP|OCTOBER 6, 2020|PROPUBLICA

The responses ran the gamut, with most people erring on the side of caution, especially when it comes to indoor dining.
HOW READERS FEEL ABOUT DINING OUT RIGHT NOW|AMANDA KLUDT|OCTOBER 5, 2020|EATER

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germinant [jur-muh-nuhnt]

adjective:
germinating or having the capacity to grow or develop

Examples:

Forest managers traditionally use seeding on suitable sites as an alternative to planting. The primary advantages over planting are reduced treatment costs and improved root system development. The main disadvantages include seed predation, drought associated germinant mortality, a need for a large quantity of viable seed, and a perception that intensive site preparation is required to expose mineral soil. (Michael Bendzsak, Saskatchewan Report: Aerial Broadcast Seeding of Jack Pine on Xeric Sites in Saskatchewan, Silviculture, Summer 2013)

As the oak is germinant in the acorn, so society is germinant in the family. Historically, the family is the first organization; biologically it is the origin of all other organizations. ( Kerry Howley, The Sentimental Origins of the Male Explanatory Reflex, Slate, November 2002)

We also know that the suckiness could get much worse (and much more germinant) if he forces Andrew Luck to return from injury before he's ready. (Why Your Quarterback Sucks: Ranking All 32 NFL Starters From Worst to Worst, Hero Sports, August 2017)

But the restrictions on individual licence which are due to respect for a known and friendly power allied to man, however trivial and absurd* they may appear to us in their details, contain within them germinant principles of social progress and moral order. (William Robertson Smith, Lectures on the Religion of the Semites)

She might have rebelled, had it not been for that germinant idea of hers. (Henry Kitchell Webster, The Real Adventure)

Origin:

Germinant, 'beginning to grow or develop,' comes from the Latin verb germināre, 'to bud, sprout,' which comes from the noun germen, 'shoot, sprout.' Germen is also the source of germ, which originally referred to a bud or seed and later came to refer to microorganisms as well. Despite the similar spelling, germen is not related to the name of the country Germany, which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Germinant was first recorded in English around the year 1600. (Dictionary.com)

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Entries tagged with g

Monday Word: Gantry

Tuesday word: Gestalt

Tuesday word: Grandfamily

Wednesday Word: Gloze

Tuesday word: Glair

Monday Word: Goyle

Tuesday word: Geyser

Monday: gibus

Tuesday word: Glissade

Friday Words: Fulminate, Strand, Graupel, and Snag

Monday Word: Guttiform

Thursday Word: Gamut

Wednesday Word: Graupel

Wednesday Word: Gigglemug

Saturday word: Gadzooks

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