Gan

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gan \Gan\, imp. of {Gin}. [See {Gin}, v.]
     Began; commenced.
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     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.
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                 This man gan fall (i.e., fell) in great
                 suspicion.                         --Chaucer.
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                 The little coines to their play gunne hie (i. e.,
                 hied).                             --Chaucer.
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     Note: Later writers use gan both for singular and plural.
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                 Yet at her speech their rages gan relent.
                                                    --Spenser.
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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.
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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).