gen

• Rhymes: -ɛn

Clipping of general

gen (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Britain, informal) information
2. (fandom slang) Fanfiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.

• (fan fiction): genfic

• genned in
• gen up

gen (plural gens)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gen

Shortened from generate

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

1. To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.
   • 1991, Bruce H. Hunter & ‎Karen Bradford Hunter, UNIX Systems: Advanced Administration and Management Handbook:

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

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

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

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

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

   • 2012, Robert Charles Wilson, Bios, →ISBN:

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

Shortened from genetic engineering

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

1. (science fiction) To genetically engineer.
   • 2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:

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

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

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

Etymology unknown. Possibilities include:

• Clipping of argent
• Clipping of generalise, from back slang for English shilling.

gen (plural gens)

1. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A shilling.
   • 1851, Mayhew, Henry, “Gambling of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎, volume 1, page 17:

     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.

   • 1978, Ayers, Rose, The Street Sparrows:

     "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."

Clipping of generation.

gen (plural gens)

1. (informal) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 2016, Dwight Lang, “Witnessing Social Class in the Academy”, in Allison L. Hurst and 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:

     […] 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.

   • 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:

     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.

• next-gen

• ENG, Eng., eng, neg, neg.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈʒən/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɛn/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒen/

gen m (plural gens)

1. gene

• genètic
• genètica
• genetista
• gènic
• genoma
• genotip

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn

gen m

1. gene

• genový
• genetika
• genetický

• gen in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• gen in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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 n (singular definite genet, plural indefinite gener)

1. (genetics) gene

gen

1. imperative of genne

• “gen” in Den Danske Ordbog

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɣɛn/

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gen n (plural genen)

1. gene

• eng

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡeːn/, /ɡɛn/
• Homophones: gehn, Gen (according to the first pronunciation)

gen

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

   gen Norden ― to the north, northwards

   gen Abend ― towards the evening, in the late afternoon

• (in) Richtung (place); gegen (time)

• gen in Duden online

gen

1. Contraction of genyen.

gen

1. Rōmaji transcription of げん
2. Rōmaji transcription of ゲン

gen

1. Nonstandard spelling of gēn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gén.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gěn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of gèn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

gen

1. Alternative form of gain (“against”)

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

1. (biology) a gene

• “gen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

gen m or n (definite singular genen or genet, indefinite plural genar or gen, definite plural genane or gena)

1. (biology) a gene

• “gen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *ju.

• IPA^(key): /jeːn/

ġēn

1. still, yet
2. again, further

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲen/

gen n or f

1. smile, laugh
2. sport, levity

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• gentraige

gen m

1. fondness, liking, favour

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

gen f

1. woman, girl

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• ingen

gen f

1. sword

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

1. attractive; pleasing; nice; fair; pleasant
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour^(Wikisource)

     Lo gens tems de pascor

     The pleasant time of Easter

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “genitus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 40, page 103

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛn/

gen m inan

1. gene

• gen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin genus.

gen n (plural genuri)

1. gender
2. type, sort, kind
3. way, style, manner
4. (biological category) genus, species, family

• (gender): sex
• (type, kind, way): fel, stil
• (species): specie

• IPA^(key): /xen/, [xẽn]

gen m (plural genes)

1. gene

• IPA^(key): /jeːn/

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gen c

1. gene

• genetik
• genom

From English again

gen

1. again
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:21:

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

gen (comparative daha gen, superlative en gen)

1. (obsolete) wide

• geniş

• dar

gen (definite accusative geni, plural genler)

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

Borrowed from French gene.

gen (definite accusative geni, plural genler)

1. (biology) gene

• gien

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣɛn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣɛŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣɛŋ˧˧]

gen

1. gene

• IPA^(key): /ɣɛn/

gen

1. to eat

gen

1. first-person singular of gan
2. second-person singular of gan

From Vulgar Latin *iēniperus, from Latin iūniperus. Cognate with Icelandic einir, Faroese eini(ber), Danish ene, Swedish en, Norwegian eine.

• IPA^(key): /²jeːn/, /²jeːɳ/

  Rhymes: -èːn

gen m

1. juniper

• genber
• genlag

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

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /keːn˨˦/
• Tone numbers: gen¹
• Hyphenation: gen

gen (old orthography gen)

1. (anatomy) arm