7 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Gan \Gan\, imp. of {Gin}. [See {Gin}, v.] Began; commenced. [1913 Webster] Note: Gan was formerly used with the infinitive to form compound imperfects, as did is now employed. Gan regularly denotes the singular; the plural is usually denoted by gunne or gonne. [1913 Webster] This man gan fall (i.e., fell) in great suspicion. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] The little coines to their play gunne hie (i. e., hied). --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Note: Later writers use gan both for singular and plural. [1913 Webster] Yet at her speech their rages gan relent. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Gin \Gin\ (g[i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gan} (g[a^]n), {Gon} (g[o^]n), or {Gun} (g[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ginning}.] [OE. ginnen, AS. ginnan (in comp.), prob. orig., to open, cut open, cf. OHG. inginnan to begin, open, cut open, and prob. akin to AS. g[imac]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [root]31. See {Yawn}, v. i., and cf. {Begin}.] To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See {Gan}. [Obs. or Archaic] "He gan to pray." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: gan See {gin} [also: {ganning}, {ganned}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: gin n 1: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries 2: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose [syn: {snare}, {noose}] 3: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers [syn: {cotton gin}] 4: a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points [syn: {gin rummy}, {knock rummy}] v 1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin 2: trap with a snare; "gin game" [also: {ginning}, {ginned}, {gan}] From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: GAN Global Area Network From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: GAN GrenzAktenNachweis (INPOL) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: GAN Generating and Analyzing Networks. "GAN - A System for Generating and Analyzing Activity Networks", A. Schurmann, CACM 11(10) (Oct 1968).
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