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gill

/ɡɪl/

Traduzioni

gillnoun

gills

/ɡɪl/

жабра

Fish use their gills to breathe underwater.

Рыбы используют свои жабры, чтобы дышать под водой.

Traduzioni aggiuntive

четверть пинты

Sinonimi

gillverb

gilled

Past Simple

gilled

Past Participle

gilling

Gerund

/ɡɪl/

потрошить

The fisherman began to gill the fish he caught.

Рыбак начал потрошить пойманную рыбу.

Traduzioni aggiuntive

выпотрошить

Sinonimi

open up

slit open

clean (out)

gilladjective

/ɡɪl/

Used attributively before nouns (e.g., gill arch, gill ventilation); rarely inflected for degree.

Definizioni

gillnoun

The respiratory organ of aquatic animals, such as fish, that extracts oxygen from water.

The fish opened and closed its gills as it swam through the water.

A unit of liquid measure equal to a quarter of a pint, used in the UK and US.

The recipe called for a gill of milk to be added to the mixture.

The vertical plates or ridges on the underside of a mushroom cap, used for spore dispersal.

The mushroom's gills were a deep purple color, indicating its species.

A narrow valley or ravine with a stream, especially in northern England; a wooded gorge.

They followed the footpath up the steep gill to the moorland above.

gillverb

To remove the gills from a fish.

The chef expertly gilled the fish before cooking it.

To catch (a fish) so that its gills become entangled in a net.

The salmon were gilled in the mesh and could not escape.

gilladjective

Relating to or involving gills.

Gill ventilation allows the fish to extract oxygen efficiently.