Gin
[dʒɪn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points.
(noun.) strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
(verb.) trap with a snare; 'gin game'.
(verb.) separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin.
迪莉娅編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
(conj.) If.
(v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
(n.) A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
(n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
(n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
(n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
(n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
(v. t.) To catch in a trap.
(v. t.) To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
編輯:奥马尔
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Geneva.[2]. Cotton-gin.[3]. Trap, snare, net, toils, noose, springe.
校對:莱利亚
解釋/意思:
n. an Australian native woman.
n. Same as Geneva of which it is a contraction.—ns. Gin′-fizz a drink of gin lemon-juice effervescing water &c.; Gin-pal′ace Gin′-shop a shop where gin is sold; Gin′-sling a cold beverage of gin and water sweetened and flavoured.
n. the name of a variety of machines esp. one with pulleys for raising weights &c.: a pump worked by rotary sails: (B.) a trap or snare.—v.t. to trap or snare: to clear cotton of its seeds by a machine:—pr.p. gin′ning; pa.p. ginned.—ns. Gin′-horse a mill-horse; Gin′-house a place where cotton is ginned.
v.i. to begin.—n. Gin′ning beginning.
康斯坦丁校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of a cotton gin, foretells you will make some advancement toward fortune which will be very pleasing and satisfactory. To see a broken or dilapidated gin, signifies misfortune and trouble will overthrow success.
手打:奈杰尔
例句/造句/用法:
- One of the most important of the early inventions in the textile art was the _cotton gin_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The cotton-gin probably had much to do with the justification of slavery. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He swore ominous oaths over the drugged beer of alehouses, and drank strange toasts in fiery British gin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She drank gin with her father, &c. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The great increase in demand for cotton produced by these machine inventions could not have been met had it not been for Eli Whitney's invention of the saw gin in America in 1793. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Yes, I am indeed, sir, wery poor in gin'ral, replies Jo. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The brushes then swept the cotton clear of the gin. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In 1812 Whitney applied for a renewal of his patent for the cotton-gin. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The following April he went back to Georgia, where he found unusually large crops of cotton had been planted, in expectation of using the gin. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The chief reason for this marvelous advance was the cotton-gin, for which Eli Whitney applied for a patent in 1793. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But money was very scarce, and the manufacture of the machines proved so costly that Whitney found it impossible to furnish as many gins as his partner wanted. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- As there were not enough of his gins ready rivals were pushing their inferior machines. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The two men did everything in their power to hasten the building of their gins. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- When he got back to his factory in New Haven he found that fire had wiped out his workshop, together with all his gins and papers. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Lumber was taken from buildings, cotton gins and wherever found, for this purpose. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
編輯:奥斯本