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nounPlural gins dʒɪndʒɪn 1mass noun A clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries. 杜松子酒 Example sentencesExamples - At the beginning of the eighteenth century it was universally believed that rum, gin, and brandy were nutritious and healthful.
- It is quite easy to make one's own herbal tincture using vodka, gin or some other spirits.
- He'd fixed a strong punch in a globe-like crystal bowl, with all kinds of liquors mixed into it - rum, gin, whiskey, vodka, juices and what not.
- Basic service will include house wines, vodka, whiskey, gin and rum, premium service will offer single-malts, premium wines and brandy.
- A table at the bottom compared the calorie content of 100 ml of beer with the same amount of gin, rum, whisky, cognac and wine.
- Staff gave her a choice of gin, vodka or whisky, before she was given two cupfuls to drink immediately.
- These are found in larger amounts in dark liquors, such as brandy, tequila and whiskey, than in clear liquors such as vodka and gin.
- In those early days cocktails were mainly made with gin, whisky, rum and vodka.
- Use vodka, gin, or any pure alcohol to erase lipstick stains from your collar, or to clean paint or ink stains from your carpet.
- They could choose from vodka, gin, rum, bourbon, scotch or tequila.
- Favor clear spirits like vodka and gin over darker-colored alcohols like whiskey, brandy or red wine.
- It helps to have lots of vodka, gin, scotch, brandy, and cognac for all to swill down.
- Artisans are also going into vodka, gin and rum, as well as whiskeys.
- I can clearly see the market opening beyond cognac and scotch whisky, possibly to vodka and gin.
- The more adventurous hobbyist can go beyond beer and wine and turn their hands to liqueurs or to spirits like gin.
- The quantities of the common spirits, such as gin, rum, vodka and whisky are controlled too.
- Yet this can only have been a very small part of the million of gallons of brandy, gin and rum that were consumed through this period.
- Two bars offer brisk service, and the bartenders will occasionally let you order up to four tiny drinks at a time, with rum, gin, vodka and rye on the menu.
- Creoles enjoy alcoholic drinks such as beer, gin, and palm wine.
- France had higher tax rates for spirits which were based on grain, such as whisky, rum, gin, and vodka, than those which were based on wine or fruit, such as cognac, Calvados, and Armagnac.
Synonyms strong liquor, liquor, strong drink 2A form of the card game rummy in which a player holding cards totalling ten or less may terminate play. 金罗美（拉米纸牌戏的一种，玩牌者手中未摊出的牌为10张或少于10张时可摊牌叫停从而获胜） Example sentencesExamples - After this the men may separate for gin rummy or poker, leaving the women alone to their gossip.
- They all got settled, and first started playing poker, gin, and a few other card games.
- It generates revenues by hosting online backgammon, gin rummy and blackjack, as well as staging golf, darts and pool games.
- We sat around for a long time playing gin rummy in the hay, when we heard what sounded like a pig's squeal.
- As a sideline he was a classical violinist, a master bridge player and a demon at gin rummy, but golf was where he got his kicks.
OriginEarly 18th century: abbreviation of genever. Rhymesagin, akin, begin, Berlin, bin, Boleyn, Bryn, chin, chin-chin, Corinne, din, fin, Finn, Flynn, gaijin, Glyn, grin, Gwyn, herein, Ho Chi Minh, in, inn, Jin, jinn, kin, Kweilin, linn, Lynn, mandolin, mandoline, Min, no-win, pin, Pinyin, quin, shin, sin, skin, spin, therein, thin, Tientsin, tin, Tonkin, Turin, twin, underpin, Vietminh, violin, wherein, whin, whipper-in, win, within, Wynne, yin nounPlural gins dʒɪndʒɪn 1A machine for separating cotton from its seeds. 轧棉机，轧花机 Example sentencesExamples - At the gin, fiber is separated from the seed and cleaned.
- In the future, many gins will have automated moisture-control technology so bales will emerge from the gin with a prescribed amount of moisture.
- This local textile company has had success with its trial crop of cotton and will now be installing a gin to process the raw material as well.
- South Africa says the cotton processed in this gin is some of the finest on the African continent.
- Roller gins vied with saw gins for the fuzzy-seed market into the 1820s and remained the preferred gin for long-staple cotton.
2A machine for raising and moving heavy weights. 三脚起重机；起重装置 Example sentencesExamples - The horse gin was a horse-driven winding machine used to raise coal in tubs or baskets.
3A trap for catching birds or small mammals. Example sentencesExamples - A tiled bathroom in an old safari lodge contains a frightening arsenal of confiscated weaponry - machetes, knives, bows and arrows tipped with hammered barbed wire; buffalo-size snares; gin traps powered by car springs.
- This horrific picture shows a cat lying in enormous distress, her front leg severed by a vicious and illegal gin trap.
- For the next 33 years he lived in a room under the house and if anyone came near, he speared them with a pitchfork, whacked them over the head with a farming instrument or caught them in a man-sized gin trap.
- He added: ‘Anyone we discover setting gin traps, or fen traps illegally, should be warned they could face prosecution.’
- She was rescued by the RSPCA after becoming caught in an illegal gin trap.
verbginned, ginning, gins dʒɪndʒɪn [with object]Treat (cotton) in a gin. （用轧棉机）轧（棉） Example sentencesExamples - But until the recent innovations, the slow ginning rate for upland cotton made it economically infeasible to use anything but saw-gin stands.
- So where does it go to sell its harvested, ginned cotton?
- The country's largest ginneries were only utilising 24 and 54 per cent of their respective ginning capacity, and only 40 per cent of the seed cotton was ginned into cotton lint.
- Producers in south-central Kansas are ginning a crop once unheard of in their state.
- The cooperative ginned a record supply of cotton, topping 16,000 bales.
Phrasal VerbsArouse or intensify strong feelings in someone. the goal of the convention is to gin up the faithful Example sentencesExamples - If they want to gin up their constituents into active resentment of their federal government - they should look elsewhere.
- Print and online publications are ginned up to shine an anecdote, an experience, into a gem that will be plucked and dittoed through the social media.
- It's easy for kids to be ginned up at an assembly, but it's hard to work hard for the years and years of years that they must.
- One would have thought we would have ginned up the intelligence analysts and case officers who were capable of operating in that area.
- We're headed to the party being given the ability to bring back symbolic issues so they don't have to talk about anything significant, so they can get the base ginned up for these November House and Senate elections.
- He knew when to pick a fight too-when to bait an umpire or tear up a rule book or hurl a third-base bag in order to fire up his team or gin up the fans.
- First of all, it gins up the conservative base of the Republican Party.
- The magazine was reporting the administration had a three point plan to come back after the debacle which included ginning up the base with tax cuts.
- He's more than happy to accept the negative reviews and respond to them in a fashion that gins up his followers and financial contributors.
- She is ginned up about the launch to the point of hyperbole, describing the app as "the most shoppable digital edition of any magazine."
Generate or increase something, especially by dubious or dishonest means. the trade press has ginned up a controversy the reason for this kind of fearmongering is obvious—it's a way to gin up support for radical reforms Example sentencesExamples - As Congress gins up its attack on women's health services, another issue that affects the welfare of women has been getting far less attention.
- Corporate boards have essentially created what amounts to a perpetual motion pay machine that year in and year out gins up millions in executive compensation, no matter what may be happening economically in the real world.
- Resentment against supposedly overpaid union workers is too easy to gin up.
- He gins up voter turnout.
- First, he has to gin up a pretext.
- So four days after the media ginned up this story, it's over.
- When the government gins up martial madness, it's hard to put it back in the bottle.
- He will use Thursday's event to gin up support via the Internet.
- Then someone overreacted and ginned up a phony controversy on this side of the Atlantic and now the very fabric of our culture is threatened.
- No, it gins up bad, sick instincts in people who have these predispositions.
- A video going viral is ginning up some over-the-top enthusiasm for trains.
Derivativesnoun The price of cotton for the current season's crop has been cut by almost 50 per cent following a decision by ginners to adjust the producer price due to the appreciation of the Kwacha against other convertible currencies. Example sentencesExamples - Readers with a knowledge of the historical literature will find a familiar cast of characters, including growers large and small, tenants and sharecroppers, merchants and ginners, and state and federal officials.
- The meeting brought together representatives of farmers' groups, assemblers, ginners research and extension systems and other stakeholders to identify underlying causes of the current crisis facing the cotton industry.
- Farley is the former chief executive officer of Colly Farms in Australia, the largest vertically integrated cotton buyer, ginner and marketer in the country.
- He said in a bid to effect growth in the industry, the association is developing a production contract with ginners that would resolve, among other issues marketing of the crop.
noun He observed that while in 1995 there was only one ginnery in the Eastern Province, there were now seven, a development that had led to employment creation for the local people. Example sentencesExamples - Not much is happening in the manufacturing sector though we have cotton ginneries, breweries, and a bicycle assembling company.
- A fourth cotton ginnery by Chinese investors is on the cards and should be operational in the next few months.
- They had not been paid for the past two months, and the ginnery where they work has been sold to new management without their knowledge.
- There are close to one million farmers involved in the production of cotton country-wide and a few hundred workers employed at ginneries.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'a tool or device, a trick'): from Old French engin (see engine). nounPlural gins dʒɪndʒɪn Australian offensive An Aboriginal woman. 〈澳，贬〉女性土著，女性土人
OriginFrom Dharuk diyin 'woman, wife'. noundʒɪnjin 1A clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavored with juniper berries. 杜松子酒 Example sentencesExamples - Two bars offer brisk service, and the bartenders will occasionally let you order up to four tiny drinks at a time, with rum, gin, vodka and rye on the menu.
- It helps to have lots of vodka, gin, scotch, brandy, and cognac for all to swill down.
- I can clearly see the market opening beyond cognac and scotch whisky, possibly to vodka and gin.
- A table at the bottom compared the calorie content of 100 ml of beer with the same amount of gin, rum, whisky, cognac and wine.
- In those early days cocktails were mainly made with gin, whisky, rum and vodka.
- At the beginning of the eighteenth century it was universally believed that rum, gin, and brandy were nutritious and healthful.
- These are found in larger amounts in dark liquors, such as brandy, tequila and whiskey, than in clear liquors such as vodka and gin.
- The more adventurous hobbyist can go beyond beer and wine and turn their hands to liqueurs or to spirits like gin.
- Favor clear spirits like vodka and gin over darker-colored alcohols like whiskey, brandy or red wine.
- The quantities of the common spirits, such as gin, rum, vodka and whisky are controlled too.
- France had higher tax rates for spirits which were based on grain, such as whisky, rum, gin, and vodka, than those which were based on wine or fruit, such as cognac, Calvados, and Armagnac.
- Creoles enjoy alcoholic drinks such as beer, gin, and palm wine.
- Use vodka, gin, or any pure alcohol to erase lipstick stains from your collar, or to clean paint or ink stains from your carpet.
- They could choose from vodka, gin, rum, bourbon, scotch or tequila.
- He'd fixed a strong punch in a globe-like crystal bowl, with all kinds of liquors mixed into it - rum, gin, whiskey, vodka, juices and what not.
- Artisans are also going into vodka, gin and rum, as well as whiskeys.
- Basic service will include house wines, vodka, whiskey, gin and rum, premium service will offer single-malts, premium wines and brandy.
- It is quite easy to make one's own herbal tincture using vodka, gin or some other spirits.
- Staff gave her a choice of gin, vodka or whisky, before she was given two cupfuls to drink immediately.
- Yet this can only have been a very small part of the million of gallons of brandy, gin and rum that were consumed through this period.
Synonyms strong liquor, liquor, strong drink 2A two-handed form of the card game rummy in which players are dealt ten cards each and attempt to produce a hand in which the point value of unmatched cards adds up to ten or less. Example sentencesExamples - After this the men may separate for gin rummy or poker, leaving the women alone to their gossip.
- It generates revenues by hosting online backgammon, gin rummy and blackjack, as well as staging golf, darts and pool games.
- We sat around for a long time playing gin rummy in the hay, when we heard what sounded like a pig's squeal.
- As a sideline he was a classical violinist, a master bridge player and a demon at gin rummy, but golf was where he got his kicks.
- They all got settled, and first started playing poker, gin, and a few other card games.
OriginEarly 18th century: abbreviation of genever. noundʒɪnjin 1A machine for separating cotton from its seeds. 轧棉机，轧花机 Example sentencesExamples - Roller gins vied with saw gins for the fuzzy-seed market into the 1820s and remained the preferred gin for long-staple cotton.
- South Africa says the cotton processed in this gin is some of the finest on the African continent.
- This local textile company has had success with its trial crop of cotton and will now be installing a gin to process the raw material as well.
- At the gin, fiber is separated from the seed and cleaned.
- In the future, many gins will have automated moisture-control technology so bales will emerge from the gin with a prescribed amount of moisture.
2A machine for raising and moving heavy weights. 三脚起重机；起重装置 Example sentencesExamples - The horse gin was a horse-driven winding machine used to raise coal in tubs or baskets.
3A snare for catching game. Example sentencesExamples - She was rescued by the RSPCA after becoming caught in an illegal gin trap.
- This horrific picture shows a cat lying in enormous distress, her front leg severed by a vicious and illegal gin trap.
- A tiled bathroom in an old safari lodge contains a frightening arsenal of confiscated weaponry - machetes, knives, bows and arrows tipped with hammered barbed wire; buffalo-size snares; gin traps powered by car springs.
- He added: ‘Anyone we discover setting gin traps, or fen traps illegally, should be warned they could face prosecution.’
- For the next 33 years he lived in a room under the house and if anyone came near, he speared them with a pitchfork, whacked them over the head with a farming instrument or caught them in a man-sized gin trap.
verbdʒɪnjin [with object]Treat (cotton) in a gin. （用轧棉机）轧（棉） Example sentencesExamples - The country's largest ginneries were only utilising 24 and 54 per cent of their respective ginning capacity, and only 40 per cent of the seed cotton was ginned into cotton lint.
- Producers in south-central Kansas are ginning a crop once unheard of in their state.
- So where does it go to sell its harvested, ginned cotton?
- But until the recent innovations, the slow ginning rate for upland cotton made it economically infeasible to use anything but saw-gin stands.
- The cooperative ginned a record supply of cotton, topping 16,000 bales.
Phrasal VerbsArouse or intensify strong feelings in someone. the goal of the convention is to gin up the faithful Example sentencesExamples - One would have thought we would have ginned up the intelligence analysts and case officers who were capable of operating in that area.
- First of all, it gins up the conservative base of the Republican Party.
- She is ginned up about the launch to the point of hyperbole, describing the app as "the most shoppable digital edition of any magazine."
- The magazine was reporting the administration had a three point plan to come back after the debacle which included ginning up the base with tax cuts.
- We're headed to the party being given the ability to bring back symbolic issues so they don't have to talk about anything significant, so they can get the base ginned up for these November House and Senate elections.
- He knew when to pick a fight too-when to bait an umpire or tear up a rule book or hurl a third-base bag in order to fire up his team or gin up the fans.
- He's more than happy to accept the negative reviews and respond to them in a fashion that gins up his followers and financial contributors.
- It's easy for kids to be ginned up at an assembly, but it's hard to work hard for the years and years of years that they must.
- If they want to gin up their constituents into active resentment of their federal government - they should look elsewhere.
- Print and online publications are ginned up to shine an anecdote, an experience, into a gem that will be plucked and dittoed through the social media.
Generate or increase something, especially by dubious or dishonest means. the trade press has ginned up a controversy critics say the program is just a way for big drug companies to gin up demand for their psychiatric drugs Example sentencesExamples - No, it gins up bad, sick instincts in people who have these predispositions.
- Resentment against supposedly overpaid union workers is too easy to gin up.
- Corporate boards have essentially created what amounts to a perpetual motion pay machine that year in and year out gins up millions in executive compensation, no matter what may be happening economically in the real world.
- First, he has to gin up a pretext.
- He gins up voter turnout.
- When the government gins up martial madness, it's hard to put it back in the bottle.
- As Congress gins up its attack on women's health services, another issue that affects the welfare of women has been getting far less attention.
- A video going viral is ginning up some over-the-top enthusiasm for trains.
- Then someone overreacted and ginned up a phony controversy on this side of the Atlantic and now the very fabric of our culture is threatened.
- He will use Thursday's event to gin up support via the Internet.
- So four days after the media ginned up this story, it's over.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘a tool or device, a trick’): from Old French engin (see engine). noundʒɪnjin Australian offensive An Aboriginal woman. 〈澳，贬〉女性土著，女性土人
OriginFrom Dharuk diyin ‘woman, wife’. |