The difference between Bitterness and Gall
When used as nouns, bitterness means the quality of having a bitter taste, whereas gall means bile, especially that of an animal.
Gall is also verb with the meaning: to trouble or bother.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bitterness and Gall
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Bitterness as a noun:
The quality of having a bitter taste.
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Bitterness as a noun:
The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment.
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Gall as a noun (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable):
Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
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Gall as a noun (anatomy):
The gall bladder.
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Gall as a noun (uncountable, obsolete):
Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
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Gall as a noun (countable):
A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
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Gall as a noun (uncountable):
A feeling of exasperation.
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Gall as a noun (uncountable):
Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
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Gall as a noun (medicine, obsolete, countable):
A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
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Gall as a noun (countable):
A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
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Gall as a noun (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.
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Gall as a verb (transitive):
To trouble or bother.
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Gall as a verb:
To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
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Gall as a verb:
To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
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Gall as a verb:
To exasperate.
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Gall as a verb:
To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
Examples:
"Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface."
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Gall as a verb:
To scoff; to jeer.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Gall as a noun (countable, plant disease):
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 .
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Gall as a verb:
To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
Examples:
"rfquotek Ure"