Used in a Sentence

chan

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for chan.

Editorial note

It already has contention on a queue (the chan), it's just the chan-chan-Worker rather than chan-Job.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A Chinese surname from Cantonese.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of chan gathered in one view.

noun

A Chinese surname from Cantonese.

noun

A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

noun

A surname from Chinese.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for chan.

noun

A Chinese surname from Cantonese.

noun

A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

noun

A surname from Chinese.

noun

A surname from Khmer.

Example sentences

1

It already has contention on a queue (the chan), it's just the chan-chan-Worker rather than chan-Job.

2

Was there a reason to introduce the `WorkerPool chan chan Job`?

3

A good example could be a chan bot in Go with plugins written on JS.

4

This is something that is often glossed over by folks who don't understand chan culture: its chaotic neutral, not chaotic evil.

5

Literally anywhere else on the Internet whose name doesn't end in *chan.

6

Why should one use this instead of some IRC chan?

7

I have personally observed chan (not 4chan) threads involving skimming certain subreddits and finding targets to harass without even having Reddit accounts.

8

Will Chan is donating 20% of his income to charity.

9

Does this program even have one 'chan' in it?

10

Tama-chan's family and friends--may she rest in peace.

11

No one answered, and then suddenly I realized that this Tama-chan was casually laying down and staring at me from a chair in the office.

12

Yeah I thought the double chan was a bit strange.

Quote examples

1

Yes, it gives echo-y mods the ability to create their own echo chamber, but free and "unmoderated" *chan sites tend to do that anyway.

2

$0 biturd)} chan=/tmp/yapchan echo "^D to exit chat." >&2 tail -F "$chan" & tailpid=$!

3

How about "Priscilla Chan to be mother"?

4

Server creates a "channel" with a file-handle/chan-id.

Proper noun examples

1

The runtime and various libraries provide a wealth of parallelism and concurrency primitives—Chan, MVar, STM, TVar, &c.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use chan in a sentence?

It already has contention on a queue (the chan), it's just the chan-chan-Worker rather than chan-Job.

What does chan mean?

A Chinese surname from Cantonese.

What part of speech is chan?

chan is commonly used as noun.