gen

gen (nominative singular)
geny (nominative plural)
genu (genitive singular)
genů (genitive plural)
genu (dative singular)
genům (dative plural)
gen (accusative singular)
geny (accusative plural)
gene (singular vocative)
geny (plural vocative)
genu (locative singular)
genech (locative plural)
genem (instrumental singular)
geny (instrumental plural)


gen

head

gen n (singular definite genet, plural indefinite gener)

genet (definite singular)
gener (indefinite plural)
gen (indefinite nominative singular)
genet (definite nominative singular)
gener (indefinite nominative plural)
generne (definite nominative plural)
gens (genitive indefinite singular)
genets (definite genitive singular)
geners (genitive indefinite plural)
genernes (definite genitive plural)

From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). Coined by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication.


gen

→ Indonesian: gen


gen

Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.

2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero:

(chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Information.

I had some recent gen that they had been seen quite recently at Kunoth Well, a little dot on the map on the edge of the Tanami Desert.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 172:

(birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.

(fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.


gen

Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”)


gen

Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.

1991, Bruce H. Hunter, Karen Bradford Hunter, UNIX Systems: Advanced Administration and Management Handbook:

The older, genned files are difficult to keep up-to-date and are unsupported for some newer NICs.

1993, Debra R. Niedermiller-Chaffins, Drew Heywood, Inside Novell NetWare, →ISBN, page 100:

As the capacities of the large servers are exceeded, a new server is genned into the RAC cluster.

2010, Donald K. Burleson, Oracle Tuning: The Definitive Reference, →ISBN, page 1109:

The Turing factories on Isis's small moon had fallen short of productivity goals, though another two factory units had been genned.

2012, Robert Charles Wilson, Bios, →ISBN:

To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.

en-verb

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

gens (present singular third-person)
genning (participle present)
genned (participle past)
genned (past)


gen

(slang) A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).


gen

Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.

2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:

Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.

2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28:

(science fiction) To genetically engineer.


gen

The betting also began to shift. "Sixpence Ned wins!" cried three or four; "Sixpence he loses!" answered another; "Done!" and up went the halfpence. "Half-a-crown Joe loses!"—"Here you are," answered Joe, but he lost again. "I'll try you a 'gen'" (shilling) said a coster; "And a 'rouf yenap'" (fourpence), added the other. "Say a 'exes'" (sixpence).—"Done!" and the betting continued, till the ground was spotted with silver and halfpence.

1851, Henry Mayhew, “Gambling of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 17:

"Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."

Etymology unknown. Possibilities include:
* Clipping of argent
* Clipping of generalise, from back slang for English shilling.

unk

Etymology unknown.


gen

"Mladenovic playing in what the young gen is calling a crop top, but what my gen is calling a bra," Bouchard tweeted. "Sign of the times that Wimbledon has no issue with that. Still can remember the year some had troubles because of 'too short' skirts lol."

2022 June 28, “Wimbledon tennis: Fans react to Kristina Mladenovic's eye-catching outfit”, in The New Zealand Herald:

It’s anyone’s guess whether such attitudes will persist into adulthood, but if Gen Z (and the gens to come) do prove more alco-skeptic than their forbears then the above twelve steps are deftly primed to cash in.

2022 July 4, Ben Schott, “Is There Anything That Gen Z Won’t Drink?”, in The Washington Post:

(informal) A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).

For my fellow first-gens, get ready to hide a smirk, because your life story is likely hidden somewhere in this chapter. For the uninitiated—that is, the person who's never had a thing to do with the Arab way of doing things (namely dating)—I advise you to buckle up.

2004, Sally Bishai, “Courtship, Marriage and the Ubiquitous ‘Dating Thing’”, in Mid-East Meets West: On Being and Becoming a Modern Arab American, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 57:

[…] I witness firsthand the difficult "downstream" outcomes (Grusky 2014) of social class stratification in a university setting where approximately 3,400 undergraduates (13% of the undergraduate population) are first in their families to attend and/or graduate from college (first-gens). Most of these students are low income and nearly 1,200 first-gens have grown up in poverty.

2016, Dwight Lang, “Witnessing Social Class in the Academy”, in Allison L. Hurst, Sandi Kawecka Nenga, editors, Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, part 2 (Teaching), page 102:

The Family Values and Framing Strategy steps address soft issues as what is the purpose of the new investment strategy, is there a desire to engage and train the next generation (Next Gens), and is there building buy-in and engagement across the family members important to strengthen family unity.

2017, Temple Fennell, “SCIE: Sustainable Cycle of Investing Engagement”, in Kirby Rosplock, The Complete Direct Investing Handbook: A Guide for Family Offices, Qualified Purchasers, and Accredited Investors (Bloomberg Financial Series), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 242:

(informal, in combination) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.


gen

gen Norden

gen Abend

towards the evening, in the late afternoon

(literary, somewhat dated) in the direction; to; towards (a place or time)

From Middle High German gēn, gein, from gegen with elision of intervocalic -g- (compare Getreide, Maid). Doublet of gegen (“against”). Cognate with Yiddish קיין (keyn).


gen

is-noun

gen n (genitive singular gens, nominative plural gen)

gens (genitive singular)
gen (nominative plural)
gen (indefinite nominative singular)
genið (definite nominative singular)
gen (indefinite nominative plural)
genin (definite nominative plural)
gen (accusative indefinite singular)
genið (accusative definite singular)
gen (accusative indefinite plural)
genin (accusative definite plural)
geni (dative indefinite singular)
geninu (dative definite singular)
genum (dative indefinite plural)
genunum (dative definite plural)
gens (genitive indefinite singular)
gensins (definite genitive singular)
gena (genitive indefinite plural)
genanna (definite genitive plural)


gen

(genetics) gene (a theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms)


gen

(genetics) a theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair colour.

(molecular biology) locus: a segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein.

Borrowed from Dutch gen (“gene”), from German Gen (which was coined by Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication), from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”).


gen

From Proto-Torres-Banks *ɣani, from Proto-Oceanic *kani, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən. Cognate with Vurës gen.


gen

gen n (definite singular genet, indefinite plural gener, definite plural gena or genene)

genet (definite singular)
gener (indefinite plural)
gena (definite plural)
genene (definite plural)


gen

gen n (definite singular genet, indefinite plural gen, definite plural gena)

genet (definite singular)
gen (indefinite plural)
gena (definite plural)


gen

Middle High German: gēn

German: gehen, gehn

The form gēn appears early on in Bavarian, later spreading to eastern and southern Franconian and to the newly developing East Central German. Its origins are unknown. One theory invokes the original paradigm of Proto-West Germanic *gān, which had *ai in the 2nd and 3rd persons singular of the present; compare Middle Low German gân > he geit, modern Colognian jonn > hä jeiht, etc. The Old High German ē might thus be explained as a compromise vowel between ā and ei. What lends credence to this theory is the fact that Old High German ē cannot have developed regularly in the given position, as it only occurs before h, r, w, and word-finally.


gen

gen (nominative singular)
gen (dual nominative)
gen (nominative plural)
gena (nominative plural)
gen (singular vocative)
gen (dual vocative)
gen (plural vocative)
gena (plural vocative)
gen (accusative singular)
gen (accusative dual)
gen (accusative plural)
gena (accusative plural)
gin (genitive singular)
gen (dual genitive)
gen (genitive plural)
giun (dative singular)
genaib (dative dual)
genaib (dative plural)


gen

gen (nominative singular)
gin (dual nominative)
gena (nominative plural)
gen (singular vocative)
gin (dual vocative)
gena (plural vocative)
gin (accusative singular)
gin (accusative dual)
gena (accusative plural)
gine (genitive singular)
gen (dual genitive)
gen (genitive plural)
gin (dative singular)
genaib (dative dual)
genaib (dative plural)
gen
ngen


gen

12th century, Bernard de Ventadour⁽ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ⁾
Lo gens tems de pascor

attractive; pleasing; nice; fair; pleasant

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gen m (feminine singular genta, masculine plural gens, feminine plural gentas)

genta (feminine singular)
gens (masculine plural)
gentas (feminine plural)


gen

(genetics) gene (theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; it may take several values and, in principle, predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color)

(literary) gene (trait inherited from ancestors)

genowy (adjective)
gen (nominative singular)
geny (nominative plural)
genu (genitive singular)
genów (genitive plural)
genowi (dative singular)
genom (dative plural)
gen (accusative singular)
geny (accusative plural)
genem (instrumental singular)
genami (instrumental plural)
genie (locative singular)
genach (locative plural)
genie (singular vocative)
geny (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English gene, French gène, German Gen, ultimately from Ancient Greek γενεᾱ́ (geneā́).


gen

Old Breton: gen

Middle Breton: guen

Breton: gen

Old Cornish: genau

Cornish: gen

Middle Welsh: gen

Welsh: gên

From Proto-Celtic *genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.


gen

ceva de genul

genuri (plural)
gen (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
genul (accusative definite nominative singular)
genuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
genurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
gen (indefinite singular)
genului (definite singular)
genuri (indefinite plural)
genurilor (definite plural)
genule (singular vocative)
genurilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Latin genus. The particle sense is likely to be a semantic loan from English like.


gen

Precedes a quotation or description: like.


gen

gen (comparative genare, superlative genast)

genare (comparative)
genast (superlative)

From Old Norse gegn (“straight, direct”).


gen

gen (indefinite nominative singular)
gens (genitive indefinite singular)
genen (definite nominative singular)
genens (definite genitive singular)
gener (indefinite nominative plural)
geners (genitive indefinite plural)
generna (definite nominative plural)
genernas (definite genitive plural)


gen

Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:21:


gen

From Ottoman Turkish كیك (geñ), from Proto-Turkic *kēŋ (“wide, broad”).
Cognate with
Yakut киэҥ (kieñ, “wide”), Bashkir киң (kiñ), Kazakh кең (keñ), etc.


gen

(colloquial) A field that wasn't plowed for several years.

gen (definite accusative geni, plural genler)

geni (accusative definite)
genler (plural)


gen

geni (accusative definite)
genler (plural)
gen (nominative singular)
genler (nominative plural)
geni (accusative definite singular)
genleri (accusative definite plural)
gene (dative singular)
genlere (dative plural)
gende (locative singular)
genlerde (locative plural)
genden (ablative singular)
genlerden (ablative plural)
genin (genitive singular)
genlerin (genitive plural)
genim (first-person nominative singular)
genlerim (first-person nominative singular)
genin (nominative second-person singular)
genlerin (nominative second-person singular)
geni (nominative singular third-person)
genleri (nominative singular third-person)
genimiz (first-person nominative plural)
genlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
geniniz (nominative plural second-person)
genleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
genleri (nominative plural third-person)
genimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
genlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
genini (accusative definite second-person singular)
genlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
genini (accusative definite singular third-person)
genlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
genimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
genlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
geninizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
genlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
genlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
genime (dative first-person singular)
genlerime (dative first-person singular)
genine (dative second-person singular)
genlerine (dative second-person singular)
genine (dative singular third-person)
genlerine (dative singular third-person)
genimize (dative first-person plural)
genlerimize (dative first-person plural)
geninize (dative plural second-person)
genlerinize (dative plural second-person)
genlerine (dative plural third-person)
genimde (first-person locative singular)
genlerimde (first-person locative singular)
geninde (locative second-person singular)
genlerinde (locative second-person singular)
geninde (locative singular third-person)
genlerinde (locative singular third-person)
genimizde (first-person locative plural)
genlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
geninizde (locative plural second-person)
genlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
genlerinde (locative plural third-person)
genimden (ablative first-person singular)
genlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
geninden (ablative second-person singular)
genlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
geninden (ablative singular third-person)
genlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
genimizden (ablative first-person plural)
genlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
geninizden (ablative plural second-person)
genlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
genlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
genimin (first-person genitive singular)
genlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
geninin (genitive second-person singular)
genlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
geninin (genitive singular third-person)
genlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
genimizin (first-person genitive plural)
genlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
geninizin (genitive plural second-person)
genlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
genlerinin (genitive plural third-person)


gen

From Proto-Torres-Banks *ɣani, from Proto-Oceanic *kani, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən. Cognate with Maori kai, Malay makan.


gen

(colloquial) first/second-person singular of gan


gen

From Proto-Tai *qeːnᴬ (“arm”). Cognate with Thai แขน (kɛ̌ɛn), Northern Thai ᨡᩯ᩠ᨶ, Lao ແຂນ (khǣn), Lü ᦶᦃᧃ (ẋaen), Tai Dam ꪵꪄꪙ, Shan ၶႅၼ် (khěn).