(v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
(n.) A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
(n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
(n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
(n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
(n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
(v. t.) To catch in a trap.
(v. t.) To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
(2) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
(3) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(4) The Gin DNA invertase of bacteriophage Mu carries out processive recombination in which multiple rounds of exchange follow synaptic complex formation.
(5) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
(6) They don’t have to wait three or four years for what may or may not be the marginal difference they make to the whisky product.” Miller’s gin now sells more than all his whisky products put together, making up 80% of total sales.
(7) I still have a few pints of gin and tonic before I go onstage but nothing stupid."
(8) It is a lot like the craft beer where we’ve seen big brands say ‘it’s time we bought these brands before they become big competition’.” He said the buyout of the craft gin distiller Monkey 47 by Pernod Ricard in January marked the beginning of a trend that was likely to escalate, although there were few craft gin makers who have reached any serious scale.
(9) To prepare the data base of the occlusal surface of tooth crown, the data of tooth crown above the gingival line of 7 molar were also output by the "GIN-M" program.
(10) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
(11) In the presence of purified Gin FIS is the only additional protein required for efficient inversion.
(12) The intriguing finding that the DNA invertase Gin has the same catalytic center as the DNA resolvases that promote deletions without recombinational enhancer and host factor FIS is discussed.
(13) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
(14) Both of the alcohol-containing drinks caused mild-to-moderate inebriation, but gin and slimline tonic had no significant effect on either blood-glucose or plasma-insulin levels.
(15) Cameron took his jacket off and sipped from the half pint glasses of water – gin?
(16) By 1849 gin was respectable enough to be included in the Fortnum and Mason catalogue for the first time.
(17) Drinks that are mostly ethanol, such as gin and vodka, give fewer hangovers (but not none) than those full of congeners, such as red wine or whisky.
(18) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(19) Four types of cultured cell (Gin-1, Chang Liver, HEP-2 and L-929) were used in vitro to determine the cytotoxicity of 12 Chinese-Japanese Dental Casting Alloys from cell recovery ability.
(20) It is 19 years since Malton joined Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and had her last gin and tonic.
Ginn
Definition:
(pl. ) of Ginnee
Example Sentences:
(1) Ginn waves the white flag, calling for a fair catch at his own 35.
(2) Lying in wait are the Australian quartet Will Lockwood, James Chapman, Drew Ginn and Joshua Dunkley-Smith, who won in Munich last month.
(3) Extracts of human spleen contain two immunologically distinguishable forms of glucocerebrosidase: form I is precipitable by polyclonal or monoclonal anti-(placental glucocerebrosidase) antibodies, whereas form II is not [Aerts, J. M. F. G., Donker-Koopman, W. E., Van der Vliet, M. F. K., Jonsson, L. M. V., Ginns, E. I., Murray, G. J., Barranger, J.
(4) Ginn, who lives with 85 (at last count) rescued cats, relocated his SST operation in Taylor, Texas, late last year – completely isolating himself from his Long Beach roots.
(5) Even more after Ted Ginn takes the return 32 yards to the Ravens 20!
(6) Ginn delighted in alienating hardcore punks by putting out the contrary-sounding Paranoid Time EP by the Minutemen for SST's second release in 1980.
(7) The bands signed by Ginn seemed to reflect his perverse refusal to give people more of the same.
(8) Ginn – a vital component of the story – was loudly booed when he appeared onscreen.
(9) After a 10-year hiatus – which Ginn blamed on his distributor going belly-up and leaving SST out of pocket – four new albums were released last year.
(10) Wartime Farm follows in the hobnailed footsteps of Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm, hugely successful living history series in which Alex, fellow archaeologist Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman recreated the past by immersing themselves in the minutiae of daily life.
(11) A poor punt from Sam Koch was returned by Ted Ginn Jr to the Baltimore 20-yard line.
(12) Apparently, SST has a warehouse crammed with gems from the 80s, including those bands on New Alliance, the lesser-known but vital label Ginn bought from Mike Watt in 1986.
(13) 3.46am GMT Ravens 34 - 49ers 31, Final Ginn gets close to the 50 before being taken down and it is all over!
(14) Ted Ginn Jr returns the 49ers kickoff to the Carolina 23 yard line where they need a touchdown and quick to stay in this thing.
(15) Business was often conducted in phone kiosks on the street, while musicians earned enough to eat by helping Ginn build radios out of salvaged second world war parts for his radio clientele.
(16) As a certified Grateful Deadhead who was also into John Coltrane and free-jazz, Ginn valued individualism and uniqueness more than Xerox punk.
(17) 49ers 23-10 Panthers, 4:22, 4th quarter It's 1st and 10 on the SF 45 after the penalty has been assessed, a 17 yard bomb to Ginn puts Carolina on the 28 line of San Francisco and... CAM NEWTON IS INTERCEPTED!
(18) Ginn ordered the film-makers to remove him from the final cut.
(19) The range was eclectic – from western swing to techno – but all built around Ginn's hard-to-digest guitar.
(20) Ted Ginn returns the kickoff 22 yards, the Panthers will start on their 24.