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Gall vs. Nerve — What's the Difference?

Gall vs. Nerve — What's the Difference?

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Gall

Galls (from Latin galla, 'oak-apple') or cecidia (from Greek kēkidion, anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benign tumors or warts in animals.

Nerve

A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of fibers (called axons) in the peripheral nervous system. A nerve transmits electrical impulses.

Gall

Outrageous insolence; effrontery
After borrowing my car, he had the gall to complain about its seats.

Nerve

Any of the cordlike bundles of fibers made up of neurons through which sensory stimuli and motor impulses pass between the brain or other parts of the central nervous system and the eyes, glands, muscles, and other parts of the body. Nerves form a network of pathways for conducting information throughout the body.

Gall

Bitterness of feeling; rancor.
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Nerve

The sensitive tissue in the pulp of a tooth.

Gall

Something bitter to endure
The gall of defeat.

Nerve

A sore point or sensitive subject
The criticism touched a nerve.

Gall

See bile.

Nerve

Courage and control under pressure
Lost his nerve at the last minute.

Gall

A skin sore caused by friction and abrasion
A saddle gall.

Nerve

Fortitude; stamina.

Gall

Exasperation; vexation.

Nerve

Forceful quality; boldness.

Gall

The cause of such vexation.

Nerve

Brazen boldness; effrontery
Had the nerve to deny it.

Gall

An abnormal growth of plant tissue caused by an organism, such as an insect, mite, or bacterium, or by a wound.

Nerve

Nerves Nervous agitation caused by fear, anxiety, or stress
Had a sudden attack of nerves.

Gall

To irk or exasperate; vex
It galled me to have to wait outside.

Nerve

A vein or rib in the wing of an insect.

Gall

To wear away or make sore by abrasion; chafe:

Nerve

The midrib and larger veins in a leaf.

Gall

To become worn or sore by abrasion.

Nerve

To give strength or courage to.

Gall

(anatomy) The gall bladder.

Nerve

Body parts A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
The nerves can be seen through the skin.

Gall

(uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.

Nerve

A neuron.

Gall

(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

Nerve

(botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.
Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves.

Gall

(countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.

Nerve

Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.
He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her.

Gall

(countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Nerve

Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.
The web-team found git-sed is really a time and nerve saver when doing mass changes on your repositories

Gall

Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

Nerve

(in the plural) One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche;
All these rationalizations for asinine behavior are getting on my nerves.
His nerves could no longer handle the worry.

Gall

Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

Nerve

(in the plural) mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.
Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test; she was a bundle of nerves.

Gall

A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.

Nerve

(polymer technology) The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
A nervy tank lining will be difficult to lay around tight bends or in corners because it tends to spring back.Blair Rubber company glossary of terms. [https://blairrubber.com/wp-content/uploads/glossary-of-terms.pdf]

Gall

A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

Nerve

(obsolete) Sinew, tendon.

Gall

(countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

Nerve

(transitive) To give courage.
May their example nerve us to face the enemy.

Gall

(transitive) To bother or trouble.

Nerve

(transitive) To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.

Gall

To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

Nerve

One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.

Gall

To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

Nerve

A sinew or a tendon.

Gall

To exasperate.

Nerve

Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
He led me on to mightiest deeds,Above the nerve of mortal arm.

Gall

To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface.

Nerve

Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.

Gall

To scoff; to jeer.

Nerve

Audacity; assurance.

Gall

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

Nerve

One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.

Gall

The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

Nerve

One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.

Gall

The gall bladder.

Nerve

To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.

Gall

Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail.
Comedy diverted without gall.

Nerve

Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body

Gall

Impudence; brazen assurance.

Nerve

The courage to carry on;
He kept fighting on pure spunk
You haven't got the heart for baseball

Gall

An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

Nerve

Impudent aggressiveness;
I couldn't believe her boldness
He had the effrontery to question my honesty

Gall

A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

Nerve

Get ready for something difficult or unpleasant

Gall

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

Gall

To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.
I am loth to gall a new-healed wound.

Gall

To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
They that are most galled with my folly,They most must laugh.

Gall

To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows.

Gall

To scoff; to jeer.

Gall

An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle

Gall

A skin sore caused by chafing

Gall

Abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury

Gall

A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

Gall

A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats

Gall

The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

Gall

Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

Gall

Irritate or vex;
It galls me that we lost the suit

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