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Princeton's WordNet

  1. club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, orderverb

    a formal association of people with similar interests

    "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

  2. gild, begild, engildverb

    decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

Wiktionary

  1. gildverb

    To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.

  2. gildverb

    To adorn.

  3. gildverb

    To make appear drunk.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To GILDverb

    pret. gilded, or gilt.

    Etymology: gildan , Saxon.

    The room was large and wide,
    As it some gilt or solemn temple were:
    Many great golden pillars did uprear
    The massy roof, and riches huge sustain. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

    Gilded wood may worms infold. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

    To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
    To throw a perfume on the violet. William Shakespeare, K. John.

    And the gilded car of day
    His glowing axle doth allay
    In the steep Atlantick stream. John Milton.

    Purchasing riches with our time and care,
    We lose our freedom in a gilded snare. Wentworth Dillon.

    When Britain, looking with a just disdain
    Upon this gilded majesty of Spain,
    And knowing well that empire must decline,
    Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. Edmund Waller.

    Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive;
    And love of ombre after death survive. Alexander Pope.

    Thou did’st drink
    The stale of horses and the gilded puddle,
    Which beasts would cough at. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

    No more the rising sun shall gild the morn,
    Nor ev’ning Cynthia fill her silver horn. Alexander Pope, Messiah.

    The lightsome passion of joy was not that trivial, vanishing, superficial thing, that only gilds the apprehension and plays upon the surface of the soul. South.

    For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
    I’ll gild it with the happiest terms I have. William Shakespeare, Hen. IV.

    Yet, oh! th’ imperfect piece moves more delight;
    ’Tis gilded o’er with youth, to catch the sight. John Dryden, Auren.

Wikipedia

  1. gild

    Gilead Sciences, Inc. () is an American biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Foster City, California, that focuses on researching and developing antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, influenza, and COVID-19, including ledipasvir/sofosbuvir and sofosbuvir. Gilead is a member of the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index and the S&P 500. Gilead was founded in 1987 under the name Oligogen by Michael L. Riordan. The original name was a reference to oligomers, small strands of DNA used to target genetic sequences. Gilead held its IPO in 1992, and successfully developed drugs like Tamiflu and Vistide that decade. In the 2000s, Gilead received approval for drugs including Viread and Hepsera, among others. It began evolving from a biotechnology company into a pharmaceutical company, acquiring several subsidiaries, though it still relied heavily on contracting to manufacture its drugs. The company continued its growth in the 2010s, but came under heavy scrutiny over its business practices, including extremely high pricing of drugs such as Sovaldi and Truvada in the United States relative to production cost and cost in the developing world.

ChatGPT

  1. gild

    To gild means to cover a surface with a thin layer of gold or a gold-like substance, giving it a luxurious and shiny appearance. It can also figuratively mean enhancing the value or attractiveness of something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gildverb

    to overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold

  2. Gildverb

    to make attractive; to adorn; to brighten

  3. Gildverb

    to give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie

  4. Gildverb

    to make red with drinking

  5. Etymology: [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. 234. See Gold.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Gild

    gild, v.t. to cover or overlay with gold: to cover with any gold-like substance: to gloss over: to adorn with lustre:—pr.p. gild′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. gild′ed or gilt.—ns. Gild′er, one who coats articles with gold; Gild′ing, act or trade of a gilder: gold laid on any surface for ornament.—Gilded Chamber, the House of Lords; Gild the pill, to do something to make a disagreeable thing seem less so. [A.S. gyldan—gold. See Gold.]

CrunchBase

  1. Gild

    Gild helps companies hire skilled developers by ensuring that candidates stand out on their proven abilities, not just their resumes. Backed by proprietary data analysis that examines developers' actual work, Gild's tech hiring software is used by growing companies like Eventbrite, Red Hat, and Rackspace to find the developers they need to innovate. Founded in 2011, Gild is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Salt Lake City and Milan.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of GILD in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of GILD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of GILD in a Sentence

  1. Henry David Thoreau:

    A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

  2. Sir Thomas Browne:

    There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

  3. La Rochefoucauld:

    Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

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