gan
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 4
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 3
/ɡæn/
Definition of gan
13 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(North, Northumbria, Yorkshire)To go.
“The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".”
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verb
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(North, Northumbria, Yorkshire)To go.
“The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".”
- (archaic, form-of, past)simple past of gin
name
- One of the major varieties of Chinese, spoken in Jiangxi province.
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Ngen (“dialect of the Beng language”).
- (countable, uncountable)A surname.
- A number of islands in the Maldives.
- A number of islands in the Maldives.
- A number of islands in the Maldives.
noun
- (uncountable)gallium nitride.
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(abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of generative adversarial network.
“The GAN we look at in the next exercise is a vanilla GAN with convolution.”
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(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of Great American Novel.
“During that week of squall in March of that year Hem would talk till dawn about which son of a bitch who could spell cat was going to write the G.A.N.”
- (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of giant axonal neuropathy.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of good article nomination.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”).
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