Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
Översättning
Substantiv
1.cin

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
  2. (Australia, now considered offensive) An Aboriginal woman.
  3. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
  4. (uncountable) gin rummy
  5. (obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
  6. A snare or trap for game.
  7. (poker) drawing the best card or combination of cards
  8. A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
  9. (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
  10. A pile driver.
  11. A windpump.
  12. A cotton gin.
  13. An instrument of torture worked with screws.

Verb

  1. (archaic) To begin.
  2. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
  3. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
  4. To invent (via Irish), see gin up

Exempel

  • Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.
  • The matter was a ginned up controversy
  • His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.
  • Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.
  • But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipgunPerfektparticipginned
ImperfektginnedImperfektgan
PresensparticipginningPluralgins
Tredje person singular indicativ presensgins

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