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# gallon

«gallon» in Mova's school dictionary: **A unit for measuring liquids** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a gallon, gallons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A unit for measuring liquids. A UK (imperial) gallon is about 4.55 litres; a US gallon is about 3.79 litres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#m1)

2) (informal, plural) A very large amount, as in «gallons of tea». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A maths and measurement word: in imperial units, 1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints. The USA still uses gallons for milk and petrol (gas); the UK sells fuel in litres but people still talk of «miles per gallon». In everyday talk «gallons» is an exaggeration for lots of liquid.

### examples

- We bought a gallon of milk at the store. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#x1)
- One gallon is 8 pints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#x2)
- The car does 40 miles per gallon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#x3)
- A bath holds about 20 gallons of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#x4)
- If 1 gallon is 8 pints, then 3 gallons is 24 pints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#x5)
- He drank gallons of lemonade at the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#x6)
- The fish tank holds ten gallons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#x7)
- There were about a hundred gallons of oil in this caldron, and the fire was burning beneath it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/#x8)

### note

Countable. Abbreviation: gal. Trap in maths problems: UK and US gallons are different sizes (UK 4.546 L, US 3.785 L); use the one the question gives. Conversions: 1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints; in the US, 1 gallon = 128 fluid ounces.

### In the corpora

- [She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep that reaches half down the hall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gallon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.