gange

See also: Gange, Gänge, and gān'gē

English

Etymology

Unknown

Verb

gange (third-person singular simple present ganges, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

  1. (transitive) To protect (the part of a fishing line next to a fishhook, or the hook itself) by winding it with wire.
  2. (transitive) To attach (a fishhook) to a line or snell, as by knotting the line around the shank of the hook.

Anagrams


Afrikaans

Noun

gange

  1. plural of gang

Danish

Conjunction

gange

  1. Used to show that one has to multiply one or more numbers together.
    tre gange fem er femten
    three times five is fifteen
  2. Used between two or more sizes to specify a target object, for example width and length.
    Pladen er tredive gange femten centimeter.
    The plate is thirty by fifteen centimeters.

Noun

gange

  1. plural indefinite of gang

Verb

gange (imperative gang, infinitive at gange, present tense ganger, past tense gangede, perfect tense har ganget)

  1. To multiply.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

gange (present tense gjeng, past tense gjekk, past participle gjenge or gjengi, present participle gangande, imperative gakk)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by
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