Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of volume in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to 4 quarts (3.785 liters).
- noun A unit of volume in the British Imperial System, used in liquid and dry measure, equal to 4 quarts (4.546 liters).
- noun A container with a capacity of one gallon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An English measure of capacity for dry or liquid substances, but usually for liquids, containing 4 quarts.
- noun A measure of land. A gallon of land is supposed to have been the amount of land proper to sow a gallon of grain in.
- noun The butter-bur or butterdock, Petasites Petasites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
unit ofvolume , equivalent to eightpints - noun UK exactly 4.54609
liters ; an imperial gallon - noun US 231
cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters forliquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon") - noun US one-eighth of a U.S.
bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon"). - noun in the plural, informal A large quantity (of any liquid).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters
- noun United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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No. Only, "That no merchant, cooper or any other person whatever, shall, after the first day of the first month, sell any wine under one-quarter of a cask, neither by quart, gallon or any other measure, _but only such taverners as are licensed to sell by the gallon_."
Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink 1847
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“They were going on and on about how $4.00 dollars a gallon is a good thing, and won†™ t make a difference to our economy.” —
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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Reason 5 -- tax incidence: as I pointed out, $1/gallon is not high enough to reduce consumption much (though it is high enough to divert a lot of money from better uses into government coffers), so we would not, in fact, succeed in taxing Arabs and Venezuelans very much.
Greg Mankiw Pumps for a Higher Gas Tax, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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