gin
part of speech
noun (gin, gins); verb (gin, gins, ginned, ginning — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) Gin is a strong, clear alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries; it is for adults only. tree →
2) A cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton fibres from the seeds. tree →
3) (old) A gin is a trap or snare for catching animals. tree →
4) Gin, or gin rummy, is a card game. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons the cotton gin, made by Eli Whitney in 1793, made cotton farming faster and, sadly, led to more enslaved people being forced to work on cotton plantations in the USA. In everyday life gin is an adult drink, like wine or beer; children should never drink it. Families may play gin rummy. Phrases: gin and tonic, cotton gin, gin rummy.
examples
- Gin is an alcoholic drink for grown-ups. tree →
- Grandma had a gin and tonic at the party. tree →
- Eli Whitney's cotton gin cleaned cotton much faster than people could by hand. tree →
- The cotton gin changed farming in the American South. tree →
- We played gin rummy on the rainy holiday. tree →
- In the old story, the rabbit was caught in a gin. tree →
- Alcohol like gin is not safe for children. tree →
note
Gin the drink is usually uncountable (some gin), but «a gin» means a glass of it. The cotton gin and trap are countable. «Gin» (machine) is short for «engine». The drink's name comes from the Dutch word for juniper.
In the corpora
- Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the gins of the workers of iniquity.
- A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «gin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.