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Robert Webb

Meaning of "gauche" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GAUCHE

French: awkward, left, from Old French gauchir to swerve, ultimately of Germanic origin; related to Old High German wankōn to stagger.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GAUCHE

gauche  [ɡəʊʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAUCHE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gauche is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GAUCHE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gauche

Gauche can refer to: ▪ Gauche, an implementation of the Scheme programming language ▪ Gauche conformation, defined as a torsion angle of ±60° in alkane stereochemistry ▪ Gauche effect, in stereochemistry, a characterization in which the gauche rotamer which is more stable than the anti rotamer ▪ A style of Western fencing using the main-gauche ▪ Rive Gauche, on the southern bank of the Seine in Paris, France ▪ Gauche the Cellist, a short story by Kenji Miyazawa about the eponymous cellist...

Definition of gauche in the English dictionary

The definition of gauche in the dictionary is lacking ease of manner; tactless.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GAUCHE


brioche
ˈbriːəʊʃ
ebauche
eɪˈbəʊʃ
losh
ləʊʃ
skosh
skəʊʃ
troche
trəʊʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GAUCHE

gau
gauchely
gaucheness
gaucherie
gauchesco
gaucho
gaucy
gaud
gaudeamus
gaudeamus igitur
gauderies
gaudery
gaudier
Gaudier-Brzeska
gaudies
gaudiest
gaudily
gaudiness
gaudy
gaufer

WORDS THAT END LIKE GAUCHE

amuse-bouche
babouche
barouche
bonne bouche
bouche
capuche
cartouche
couche
douche
escarmouche
farouche
gamahuche
gamaruche
louche
penuche
proseuche
rouche
ruche
scaramouche
tarbouche

Synonyms and antonyms of gauche in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GAUCHE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gauche» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of gauche

Translation of «gauche» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GAUCHE

Find out the translation of gauche to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gauche from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gauche» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

笨拙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gauche
570 millions of speakers

English

gauche
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फूहड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أخرق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гош
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gauche
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আনাড়ি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gauche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gauche
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

linkisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不器用な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

서투른
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gauche
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vụng về
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோசெ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गॉच
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

patavatsız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

goffo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gauche
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гош
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gauche
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

gauche
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gauche
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

gauche
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gauche
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gauche

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GAUCHE»

The term «gauche» is very widely used and occupies the 11.308 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GAUCHE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gauche» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gauche» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gauche

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3 QUOTES WITH «GAUCHE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gauche.
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Alanis Morissette
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
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Graham Nelson
I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.
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Robert Webb
Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAUCHE»

Discover the use of gauche in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gauche and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The gauche intruder: Freud, Lacan and the white Australian ...
This title traces the formation of an Australian moral code at the heart of white Australian identity.
Jennifer Rutherford, 2000
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Organic Chemistry
Approximate Energy Costs for Steric Interactions conversion of the gauche to the anti conformer (by way of the eclipsed conformer that represents the transition state) is about 3.4 kcal/mole. The energy of the syn eclipsed conformer, in which  ...
Marye Anne Fox, James K. Whitesell, 2004
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Polymer Physics
The alkane with additional two carbon atoms, n-butane (CH3-CH2-CH2-CH3), has different stable conformational states, referred to as trans (T) and gauche (G and G'), as shown in Fig. 2.3. The conformational energy 'map' of n-butane is ...
Ulf Gedde, 1995
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Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds: Principles and ...
They are called gauche or skew conformers and their absolute configuration may be conveniently designated Fand M in terms of helical chirality. They are equienergetic and have a potential energy of 3.3 kJ mol ' above that of IV which is  ...
D. Nasipuri, 1994
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Nucleoside Triphosphates and their Analogs: Chemistry, ...
Na2H2ATP3H,O anti Cy-endo gauche-gauche 98.3 16, 17, anti Cl'-endo- gauche -gauche 91.2 18 Cy-exo ... anti Cy-endo gauche-gauche 100.6 19 anti C4'-endo trans-gauche 103.3 [Mg(HATP)2]4- anti Cl'-endo gauche-gauche 85.4(7) 20,21 ...
Morteza Vaghefi, 2005
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Polymer Science Dictionary
This can suppress the nuclear Overhauser effect. gauche conformation (cis conformation) Symbol g, g+ or g~ . The conformation of a small molecule, or a small segment of a larger molecule, e.g. of a polymer chain, in which rotation about a ...
Mark S. M. Alger, 1997
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Molecular Structure: Understanding Steric and Electronic ...
GAUCHE EFFECT Our MM4 molecular mechanical model for alcohols and ethers is a straightforward extension of the alkane force field described earlier ( Chapter 4), and it already includes three important relevant structural effects: the  ...
Norman L. Allinger, 2010
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The Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules: From Solid State ...
imentally that whereas the antiperiplanar (app) conformation is the most stable for the conformers of both butane [20] and 1,2-dichloroethane [29], the gauche ( sc) conformation is the most stable for 1,2-difluoroethane [29], a behavior known as ...
Chérif F. Matta, Russell J. Boyd, 2007
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Applications of Infrared, Raman, and Resonance Raman ...
510 cm"1 gauche-gauche-gauche 525 cm'1 trans-gauche-gauche Fig. 3.36. Conformation of disulfide bonds in proteins. The stretching vibration of S — S is influenced by the rotational conformation about the C — C and C — 540 cm"1 s ...
Frank S. Parker, 1983
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Elements of Polymer Science & Engineering: An Introductory ...
Syndiotactic polypropylene can also crystallize in this conformation but a trans/ trans/gauchd gauche. . . sequence is slightly favored energetically. Polyamides are an important example of polymers which do not contain pseudoasymmetric ...
Alfred Rudin, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAUCHE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gauche is used in the context of the following news items.
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Djokovic diet includes Federer, All England grass: DiManno …
Federer always has been particularly adored here, in this holy venue of tennis — where early days Federer, the un-cool and seriously gauche ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
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When I was younger: 'Help' 50 years on - Independent.ie
A gauche 15 year old, I had to run the gauntlet of inner-city girls in their heavy black eyeshadow and lacquered hair, who were highly amused ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
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Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective Opens in England | - WWD.com
His first tuxedo, Le Smoking, from the fall 1966 collection, is there, as is the safari jacket from the spring 1968 Rive Gauche collection. The latter ... «WWD, Jul 15»
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Theatre: Missing the sense of Old Russia - Independent.ie
Dominic Thorburn plays the love-object Aleksey as a rather gauche teenager unlikely to catch the eye of any worldly beauty, however ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
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Van Rensburg, relay men into Korea finals - Athletics - IOL
... Van der Knaap, after four rounds of competition, with early front-runner for the South Africans, Teaghan Gauche a further shot off the pace. «Independent Online, Jul 15»
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Fort Collins author Shane Kuhn returns with second thriller - The …
But there isn't as much creative freedom with a mainstream thriller. Q: Why is that? A: Evidently, it's slightly passé or gauche to do first-person. «The Denver Post, Jul 15»
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Awards given in NIA exhibit - South Bend Tribune: Quicknews
Judges awards went to “Forsythia,” a pastel by Catherine McCormick, of Granger; “Koi Illusions,” a pastel and gauche piece by Tom Tooley, ... «South Bend Tribune, Jul 15»
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Report #2 from Athens | Open Media Boston
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the 2012 presidential candidate of the Front de gauche (Left Front of France), said today that Germany is destroying ... «Open Media Boston, Jul 15»
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Listening Post: Brief reviews of select releases - Life & Arts - The …
The Saint-Saens was neglected for a while in the 1950s because it was seen as gauche. Kholodenko plays both pieces with fine articulation ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
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Donald Trump Is a Rapper - The New Yorker
This kind of ostentation looks gauche to Americans who've been financially secure long enough to be embarrassed by it, but it also ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»

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