gar
IPA: gˈɑr
noun
- (especially US, Canada) Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
- (especially UK, Ireland) A garfish, Belone belone.
- A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
- (US, historical, military, mid-19th century) Initialism of Grand Army of the Republic. [(now historical) An organisation for veterans of the US Army, Navy and Marines who served in the American Civil War.]
- (biochemistry) Initialism of glycineamide ribonucleotide.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of glutathione amide reductase.
- (finance) Initialism of gross annual revenue.
verb
- (now chiefly UK dialectal) To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).
Advertisement
Examples of "gar" in Sentences
- Mattisse listed an article for GAR.
- GAR is the only option for this one.
- They are similar to needlefish or gars.
- GAR should NOT be the place to do that.
- Best of luck with that, along with the GAR.
- Delist is a nonsense and a travesty of a GAR.
- As for the GAR, I'm not surprised in the least.
- Bowfin and gar are common in the lower main stem.
- The gar was a big one even after he had been dressed.
- Bin gar keine Russin, stamm 'aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
- Just because a gar is of no use to you doesn't mean it has no use.
- It will be best for this GAR to run its course as a 'community' GAR.
- It's called gar-*zing*, because it has a special * zing* in its crust.
- The Espy Post is one of a half dozen most intact GAR posts in the country.
- By the end of Richard's first month at the palace, the gar was a head taller than R'ichard, and significantly stronger.
- A park volunteer who was doing a gar census near where we were a gar is a skinny fish that becomes as big as fifty pounds, and is distinguished by an extremely long, thin nose handed me his binoculars and I got a good close-up of the alligator's face.
- Dismissed by some as a gamefish-devouring, muddy-water-dwelling trash species, the alligator gar is nonetheless heralded by a growing number of devotees as a premier sport fish — hard fighting, mean, and (in growing to 8 feet and 300 pounds) just about the biggest thing you're apt to encounter in inland waters.