What part of speech is gale?

Gale can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. gale is a noun, singular of gales.

Inflections

Noun

What does gale mean?

Definitions

Verb

gale - To sing; charm; enchant.
gale - To cry; groan; croak.
gale - To talk.
gale - To call.
gale - To sing; utter with musical modulations.

Noun

gale - a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale

Examples of gale

#   Sentence  
1. noun We got our roof blown off in the gale.
2. noun The roof was torn off by the gale.
3. noun The ship scudded before a heavy gale.
4. noun When I arrived at the airport, the wind was blowing a gale.
5. noun The boat belonging to the young men of Methymna, whose withe of osiers was eaten by your goats, was carried far out to sea by the violence of the gale, but at night the wind shifted and blew towards the shore, when the boat was driven against some sharp rocks and wrecked, everything on board it being lost.
6. noun Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman.
7. noun Look at that young Frenchman who went up last week in a balloon. It was blowing a gale of wind, but because he was announced to go he insisted on starting. The wind blew him fifteen hundred miles in twenty-four hours, and he fell in the middle of Russia.
8. noun "Would that your king AEneas here could stand, / driven by the gale that drove you to this strand! / Natheless, to scour the country, will I send / some trusty messengers, with strict command / to search through Libya to the furthest end, / lest, cast ashore, through town or lonely wood he wend."
9. noun One day and now another passed; the gale / sings in the shrouds, and calls us to depart.
10. noun Have you seen how it's blowing a gale outside?
Sentence  
noun
We got our roof blown off in the gale.
The roof was torn off by the gale.
The ship scudded before a heavy gale.
When I arrived at the airport, the wind was blowing a gale.
The boat belonging to the young men of Methymna, whose withe of osiers was eaten by your goats, was carried far out to sea by the violence of the gale, but at night the wind shifted and blew towards the shore, when the boat was driven against some sharp rocks and wrecked, everything on board it being lost.
Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman.
Look at that young Frenchman who went up last week in a balloon. It was blowing a gale of wind, but because he was announced to go he insisted on starting. The wind blew him fifteen hundred miles in twenty-four hours, and he fell in the middle of Russia.
"Would that your king AEneas here could stand, / driven by the gale that drove you to this strand! / Natheless, to scour the country, will I send / some trusty messengers, with strict command / to search through Libya to the furthest end, / lest, cast ashore, through town or lonely wood he wend."
One day and now another passed; the gale / sings in the shrouds, and calls us to depart.
Have you seen how it's blowing a gale outside?

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