Found 3 items, similar to gallon.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: gallon
galon, tiga koma delapan empat liter
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: gallon
gallon
n 1: United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
[syn:
gal]
2: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to
4 quarts or 4.545 liters [syn:
Imperial gallon,
congius]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: gallon
Imperial
\Im*pe"ri*al\, a. [OE. emperial, OF. emperial, F.
imp['e]rial, fr. L. imperialis, fr. imperium command,
sovereignty, empire. See
Empire.]
1. Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an
imperial government; imperial authority or edict.
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The last
That wore the imperial diadem of Rome. --Shak.
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2. Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one
who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme.
“The imperial
democracy of Athens.” --Mitford.
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Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
With an imperial voice. --Shak.
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To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. --Dryden.
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He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line
of battle. --E. Everett.
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3. Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial
paper; imperial tea, etc.
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Imperial bushel,
gallon, etc. See
Bushel,
Gallon,
etc.
Imperial chamber, the, the sovereign court of the old
German empire.
Imperial city, under the first German empire, a city having
no head but the emperor.
Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German
empire.
Imperial drill. (Manuf.) See under 8th
Drill.
Imperial eagle. (Zo["o]l.) See
Eagle.
Imperial green. See
Paris green, under
Green.
Imperial guard, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I.
Imperial weights and measures, the standards legalized by
the British Parliament.
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