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单词 gin
释义

gin1 /jin/

noun
  1. A spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries or other aromatic substances, made chiefly in Britain and the USA
  2. Geneva
ORIGIN: Contracted from geneva

ginnˈy adjective

Flavoured with, under the influence of, containing or relating to gin

gin fizz noun

A drink of gin, lemon juice, carbonated water, etc

gin palace noun (derogatory)

A showily pretentious public house

ginˈshop noun (archaic)

A bar or shop selling mostly gin

gin sling noun

An iced gin and water, sweetened and flavoured, with usu lemon or lime

gin and it

Gin and Italian vermouth

gin2 /jin/

noun
  1. A scheme, artifice, contrivance (Spenser)
  2. A snare or trap
  3. A machine, esp one for hoisting (engineering, mining, etc)
  4. A cotton gin
  5. An instrument of torture (Spenser)
transitive verb (ginnˈing; ginned)
  1. To trap or snare
  2. To clear of seeds by a cotton gin
ORIGIN: engine

ginnˈer noun

A person who gins cotton

ginnˈery or ginˈhouse noun

A place where cotton is ginned

gin trap noun

A powerful spring trap fitted with teeth

gin3 /jin/ (Aust)

noun

An Australian Aboriginal woman

ORIGIN: From an Aboriginal language

gin4 /jin/ or gin rummy /rumˈi/

noun

A type of rummy in which a player whose unmatched cards count ten or less may stop the game

ORIGIN: Origin uncertain

gin5 /gin/ (archaic)

transitive verb and intransitive verb (pat gan, used poetically in the sense of did)

To begin

ORIGIN: Aphetic from OE beginnan or onginnan to begin

gin6 /gin/ (Scot)

preposition

By (the time of)

ORIGIN: ME gain, appar from ON gegn against

gin7 /gin/ (Scot)

conjunction

If

ORIGIN: Perh pap of give as a substitute for gif; perh from gin6
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