GAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gal mean? 

• GAL (noun)
  The noun GAL has 3 senses:

1. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters

2. a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)

3. alliterative term for girl (or woman)

  Familiarity information: GAL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

gal; gallon

Hypernyms ("gal" is a kind of...):

United States liquid unit (a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System)

Meronyms (parts of "gal"):

quart (a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon)

Holonyms ("gal" is a part of...):

barrel; bbl (any of various units of capacity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("gal" is a kind of...):

acceleration unit (a unit for measuring acceleration)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Alliterative term for girl (or woman)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gal" is a kind of...):

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

For unknown reasons, allergic reactions to alpha-gal may occur between 3 to 6 hours after red meat consumption, making it difficult to identify what substance caused the reaction.

(NIAID scientists link cases of unexplained anaphylaxis to red meat allergy, National Institutes of Health)

“Come, old gal!” cried Mr. Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

'Ittin' of them over the 'ead with a pole is one way; scratchin' of their hears is another, when gents as is flush wants a bit of a show-orf to their gals.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Gal-1, a multifunctional carbohydrate-binding protein, is often overexpressed on tumor cells and plays a key role in cancer cell proliferation, apoptosis, tumor angiogenesis and evasion of immune responses.

(Galectin-1 Inhibitor OTX008, NCI Thesaurus)

Gal is a non-SI, CGS system unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second, named after Galileo.

(Gal, NCI Thesaurus)

GalT catalyzes the expression of foreign alpha-1,3-galactosyl (alpha-gal) carbohydrate epitopes in glycoproteins and in glycolipids on the cell membranes of the allogeneic lung tumor cells present in the vaccine, essentially producing a 'xenograft'.

(Alpha-1,3-Galactosyltransferase-Expressing Allogeneic Lung Tumor Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination is associated with the expression of murine alpha-1,3-galactosyl (alpha-gal) carbohydrate residues on cell membrane glycoproteins and glycolipids of the vaccine pancreatic cancer cell allograft; murine alpha-gal epitopes, not present on human cells, then induce a hyperacute rejection of the vaccine pancreatic cancer cell allograft.

(Algenpantucel-L, NCI Thesaurus)

Among the study participants with alpha-gal allergy evaluated at NIH, two also had a rare condition called indolent systemic mastocytosis, or ISM.

(NIAID scientists link cases of unexplained anaphylaxis to red meat allergy, National Institutes of Health)

The “young gal” likewise occasioned me some uneasiness: not so much by neglecting to wash the plates, as by breaking them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The hyperacute rejection involves pre-existing human anti-alpha-gal antibodies that bind the foreign alpha-gal epitopes expressed by the vaccine tumor cell xenograft, resulting in complement-mediated cytotoxicity (CMC) and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) towards endogenous lung tumor cells with unmodified carbohydrate epitopes.

(Alpha-1,3-Galactosyltransferase-Expressing Allogeneic Lung Tumor Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)