Gin

Noun

 * 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) gin rummy

Related terms

 * genever
 * sloe gin

Noun

 * 1)  A trick; a device or instrument.
 * 2) A snare or trap for game.
 * 3) A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.
 * 4) A pile driver.
 * 5) A windpump.
 * 6) A cotton gin.

Verb

 * 1)  To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
 * 2)  To trap something in a gin.

Verb

 * 1)  To begin.

Noun

 * 1)  An Aboriginal woman.

Derived terms

 * gin burglar
 * gin burglary
 * gin hunter
 * gin jockey
 * gin shepherd
 * gin stealer
 * gin’s piss

Adjectives for Gin
(liquor)

meditative; sullen; accursed.

Verbs for Gin
abstain from—; denature—; distill—; im-' bibe—; legalize—; loathe—; reek of—; resist—; —destroys; —dulls; —grogs; —inebriates; —influences; —intoxicates; —overcomes; —regales; —seduces.

Thesaurus
Angostura bitters, Canadian, Canadian whiskey, Cognac, Dionaea, Grand Champagne, Irish, Irish whiskey, Kirsch, Scotch, Scotch whiskey, absinthe, allure, bait the hook, baited trap, birdlime, bitters, blended whiskey, bolt, booby trap, bourbon, brandy, catch, catch out, clean rum, cordon, cordon off, cull out, deadfall, deathtrap, decoy, divide, eau de vie, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, enweb, filament, firetrap, flytrap, ghettoize, grog, hook, hook in, insulate, inveigle, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, light whiskey, lime, lure, malt whiskey, marc, mescal, mesh, mine, mole trap, moonshine, mousetrap, net, noose, ouzo, pick out, pitfall, plum brandy, put aside, quarantine, raki, rattrap, riddle, rum, rye, rye whiskey, schnapps, screen, seclude, segregate, separate, set apart, set aside, set gun, shred, sieve, sift, slivovitz, snare, snarl, sniggle, sort out, spin, spirits, spread the toils, spring gun, tangle, tequila, thrash, thresh, trap, trapfall, trip, vodka, whiskey, wind, winnow

Etymology 1
Abbreviation of geneva: or alternatively from genever: from the  genevre:, from  iuniperus:. Hence Gin rummy first attested 1941.

Etymology 2
Aphetism of engin:.

Etymology 3
From ginnen:, from  ginnan:

Etymology 4
From language diyin: or dyin:, but acquiring a derogatory tone. (Reference: R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words'', Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, page 167.)

Noun

 * Arabic: جين
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: джын
 * Bulgarian: джин
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 金酒
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: gini
 * French: gin
 * Georgian: ჯინი
 * German:
 * Greek: τζιν
 * Hebrew: ג'ין


 * Hindi: जिन
 * Japanese: ジン
 * Korean: 진
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: џин
 * Roman: džin
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Thai: จิน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: джин
 * Vietnamese: rượu gin, gin

Anagrams

 * ing, nig

Etymology
From gainithir: <  (compare Welsh geni:) <  (compare English kin:, Latin gigno:, Greek γίγνομαι:, Sanskrit जनति:).

Noun

 * 1) begetting, birth
 * 2) fetus
 * 3) offspring, child, person
 * 4) generating source

Verb

 * 1) to give birth to
 * 2) to generate or produce
 * 3) to beget, procreate
 * 4) to germinate, sprout or spring forth

Noun

 * 1) Silver, Ag
 * 2) Cash, money, wealth

Etymology
Apparently reduced from gien:, under the influence of gif:.

Conjunction

 * 1) if
 * Gin A war ye, A wad gang = If I were you, I would go

Verb

 * 1) To generate, reproduce.