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GALLON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("gallon" is a kind of...):
United States liquid unit (a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System)
Meronyms (parts of "gallon"):
quart (a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon)
Holonyms ("gallon" is a part of...):
barrel; bbl (any of various units of capacity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters
Synonyms:
congius; gallon; Imperial gallon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("gallon" is a kind of...):
British capacity unit; Imperial capacity unit (a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet)
Meronyms (parts of "gallon"):
quart (a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters)
Holonyms ("gallon" is a part of...):
barrel; bbl (any of various units of capacity)
bushel (a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks)
firkin (a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons)
Context examples:
A traditional unit of volume designed to contain 10 pounds of distilled water under precisely defined conditions and equal to 4.546 091 liters, 277.4194 cubic inches, or 1.20095 US liquid gallons, or 1.03206 US dry gallons.
(Gallon British, NCI Thesaurus)
He was so intent upon it, that I had ample leisure to observe the large paper kite in a corner, the confusion of bundles of manuscript, the number of pens, and, above all, the quantity of ink (which he seemed to have in, in half-gallon jars by the dozen), before he observed my being present.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A volumetric flow rate defined as the rate at which a certain amount of fluid, expressed in gallons, crosses a given surface or is delivered to a given object or space during the period of time equal to one day.
(Gallon per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
For example, if a pinhead-sized sample of brain tissue from an Alzheimer’s patient were pulverized and diluted into a thousand gallons of liquid, the test still could detect tau seeds in a pinhead-sized volume of that dilution.
(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)
The mistress sent her maid for a small dram cup, which held about two gallons, and filled it with drink; I took up the vessel with much difficulty in both hands, and in a most respectful manner drank to her ladyship’s health, expressing the words as loud as I could in English, which made the company laugh so heartily, that I was almost deafened with the noise.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Many a time have I won a gallon of ale by covering a mile in three flights down Wilverley Chase.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He paid two dollars and a half a month rent for the small room he got from his Portuguese landlady, Maria Silva, a virago and a widow, hard working and harsher tempered, rearing her large brood of children somehow, and drowning her sorrow and fatigue at irregular intervals in a gallon of the thin, sour wine that she bought from the corner grocery and saloon for fifteen cents.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
My rooms were engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still found them dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“And I will lay a gallon of Jurancon wine upon the long-bow,” said Black Simon, “though I had rather, for my own drinking, that it were a quart of Twynham ale.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Likewise a small house, with stalls for the cows, and thirty-six gallons of beer for the thirsty weather.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
