gar

plural gars

1. CanadaUSespeciallyAny of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.

   A great gar plunged with a loud splash into the water hole.

   1907, O. Henry, The Princess and the Puma, pages 266–275

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   Gars are long, slender, predatory fishes of quiet waters east of the Rockies.

   1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128

2. IrelandUKespeciallyA garfish, Belone belone.

present singular third person gars · participle present garring · participle past gart · past gart

1. UKdialectalTo make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).First known use 14th–19th c.

   Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].

   1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15

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   I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX

   Farewell to pleasant Dilston Hall, / My father's ancient seat, / A stranger now must call thee his, / Which gars my heart to greet. [...].

   1807, Robert Surtees, Derwentwater's Farewell, Verse 1

1. USabbreviationhistoricalinitialismobsoletegovernmentInitialism of Grand Army of the Republic.

   He was a Yankee and they say he would not hang a man who had been in the G.A.R.

   1968, Charles Portis, True Grit

   Synonyms: G.A.R., G. A. R.

plural GARs

1. abbreviationinitialismbiochemistryInitialism of glycineamide ribonucleotide.
2. abbreviationinitialismbiochemistryInitialism of glutathione amide reductase.
3. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of gross annual revenue.

1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

   No crops had ever grown before at the high altitude of Menshih Township of Gar County at the foot of Kangtiszu Peak.

   西藏巨变

   1972, Kao Yuan-ching, “Changes on the Ari Plateau”, in Great Changes in Tibet [西藏巨变], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28

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   The figures indicate that Han peoples form 12 per cent of the registered residents of Gar county, and that Tibetans are 87.5 per cent of the county and 97.6 per cent of the prefecture.⁵⁸

   1994, Graham E. Clarke, “The Movement of Population to the West of China; Tibet and Qinghai”, in Judith M. Brown, Rosemary Foot, editors, Migration: The Asian Experience, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 242, 255

   Synonyms: Ga'er, Senge Tsangpo