What does gallon mean?
Definitions for gallon
ˈgæl əngal·lon
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Princeton's WordNet
gallon, galnoun
United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
gallon, Imperial gallon, congiusnoun
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters
Wiktionary
gallonnoun
A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
Etymology: From galon, galun, ultimately from galleta.
gallonnoun
exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
Etymology: From galon, galun, ultimately from galleta.
gallonnoun
231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon")
Etymology: From galon, galun, ultimately from galleta.
gallonnoun
one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon").
Etymology: From galon, galun, ultimately from galleta.
gallonnoun
A large quantity (of any liquid).
The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.
Etymology: From galon, galun, ultimately from galleta.
Webster Dictionary
Gallonnoun
a measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure
Etymology: [OF galon, jalon, LL. galo, galona, fr. galum a liquid measure; cf. F. jale large bowl. Cf. Gill a measure.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Gallon
gal′un, n. the standard measure of capacity=4 quarts. [O. Fr. galun, galon, jalon; app. cog. with Fr. jale, a bowl.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of gallon in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of gallon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of gallon in a Sentence
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
We encourage people to really bury the hatchet, so to speak, so they can move forward to a brighter and better future, it’s better than sitting home and eating a gallon of ice cream.
People were already suffering at the gas pump before this, we saw an increase of over a dollar per gallon over the last year and a half or so. That can be blamed realistically on the pandemic.
We are asking for gasoline prices to be reduced to 100 gourdes ($2) a gallon.
We all used to carry this stuff. I called it skunk oil, we poured it in a 2-gallon can, poured it out, and threw a match in it, and it'd start a fire along all the rails. We're talking in the mid -'70s. Nowadays you'd get in big trouble doing that.
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