Gall vs. Nerve — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gall and Nerve
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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.
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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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