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gins

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

Editorial note

Is it possible to tank a perfectly innocent license plate if someone gins up a misleading UD entry?

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Quick take

One of the major varieties of Chinese, spoken in Jiangxi province.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

One of the major varieties of Chinese, spoken in Jiangxi province.

noun

A surname.

noun

A number of islands in the Maldives.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gins.

noun

One of the major varieties of Chinese, spoken in Jiangxi province.

noun

A surname.

noun

A number of islands in the Maldives.

noun

An industrial island of Addu.

Example sentences

1

Is it possible to tank a perfectly innocent license plate if someone gins up a misleading UD entry?

2

Or when you can take a byproduct of an existing industry such as from saw mills or cotton gins.

3

There are a bajillion craft gins and you can skip them until you’re ready to go deep.

4

A patent on the cotton gin, however, has nothing to do with protecting your cotton gins from theft or vandalism.

5

It's just hard to see if things are cotton gins or the power loom.

6

Wikipedia gins up some numbers to claim 10 to 20 years life expectancy.

7

Uber rightly gins everyone up in DC about these issues, but the truth is they've done a great job in this market attracting the right allies and have been consistently winning their battles.

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By reducing the labor involved in processing cotton, the companies that used cotton gins could eek more profit from every acre of production.

9

I mean, I’m sure it’s interesting and now I want to look up a YouTube video about cotton gins, but do we really need to force this upon everyone?

10

Brandishing submachine gins sound more reckless than brandishing an LED.

11

Not really, that’s just the type the EFF gins up.

12

If you allow someone to patent cotton gins just because they thought that they sounded swell and wrote the idea down, you've seriously hindered any kind of market at all.

Quote examples

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I've had three different ones for gin (several different ways to approach it) and I've found great variety in them while maintaining an amount of "yep, that's gin." There are subtle gins and not so subtle gins.

2

If you allow someone to patent all cotton gins based on their single implementation one, you again have poisoned future implementations -- perhaps better and more efficient ones with completely different physical forms -- just because they belong to the idea class of "cotton separating machines".

3

I would much more urgently worry about the only country in the middle east that lies about having nukes, refuses to get them audited and continually starts wars with anyone and everyone, and proclaims everything under the sun as "antisemitism" and then gins up military action against supposed "antisemites" whenever it can.

Proper noun examples

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Gins and vermouths both vary a lot in flavor, and a martini is a drink that's all about the subtleties of how they interact.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use gins in a sentence?

Is it possible to tank a perfectly innocent license plate if someone gins up a misleading UD entry?

What does gins mean?

One of the major varieties of Chinese, spoken in Jiangxi province.

What part of speech is gins?

gins is commonly used as noun.