Gen

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A Niger-Congo language of Togo.

2. 2

   A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement.

3. 3

   A female given name, a short form of Genevieve.

   • Hal. Oh, don't fuss, Gen. I'll do my part all right. Mamma's 'structed me, you know. Genevieve. Instructed, Hal.
   • “Gen? Listen, I'm so sorry I did that, Gen. You gotta believe me. I'm not like this and you know it.” “Listen...Kyle, I...I don't think I want to see you anymore.” Genevieve's voice cracked. “Gen!”
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   1. 4

      Alternative form of Gen. (“General”).

   2. 5

      Information.

      • Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.
   3. 6

      Information about the location of a bird.

      • I had some recent gen that they had been seen quite recently at Kunoth Well, a little dot on the map on the edge of the Tanami Desert.
   4. 7

      Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.

   5. 8

      general

   6. 9

      Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”).

   7. 10

      To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.

      • genned with a LLM
      • Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.
      • The older, genned files are difficult to keep up-to-date and are unsupported for some newer NICs.
   8. 11

      A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).

   9. 12

      To genetically engineer.

      • Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.
      • Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.
   10. 13

       A shilling.

       • "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."
   11. 14

       A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).

       • It’s anyone’s guess whether such attitudes will persist into adulthood, but if Gen Z (and the gens to come) do prove more alco-skeptic than their forbears then the above twelve steps are deftly primed to cash in.
   12. 15

       A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.

   13. 16

       Clipping of genuinely.

   14. 17

       Initialism of group exemption number.

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