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Gin vs. Jin — What's the Difference?

Gin vs. Jin — What's the Difference?

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Gin

Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink that derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries (Juniperus communis).Gin originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe, particularly in southern France, Flanders and the Netherlands, to provide aqua vita from distillates of grapes and grains. It then became an object of commerce in the spirits industry.

Jin

A portion of dead wood on a branch or at the top of the trunk of a bonsai tree, whether formed naturally or deliberately to suggest age and hardship.

Gin

A clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries.

Jin

See Jinnee.

Gin

A form of the card game rummy in which a player holding cards totalling ten or less may terminate play.
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Gin

A machine for separating cotton from its seeds.

Gin

A machine for raising and moving heavy weights.

Gin

A trap for catching birds or small mammals.

Gin

An Aboriginal woman.

Gin

Treat (cotton) in a gin.

Gin

A strong colorless alcoholic beverage made by distilling or redistilling rye or other grain spirits and adding juniper berries and sometimes other flavorings such as anise, caraway seeds, or angelica root.

Gin

A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.

Gin

A pile driver.

Gin

A snare or trap for game.

Gin

A pump operated by a windmill.

Gin

A cotton gin.

Gin

Gin rummy.

Gin

To remove the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin.

Gin

To trap in a gin.

Gin

Used to announce that one has won a game of gin rummy.

Gin

A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.

Gin

(uncountable) Gin rummy.

Gin

(poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.

Gin

(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.

Gin

(obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.

Gin

A snare or trap for game.

Gin

A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

Gin

(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

Gin

A pile driver.

Gin

A windpump.

Gin

A cotton gin.

Gin

An instrument of torture worked with screws.

Gin

An Aboriginal woman.

Gin

(transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

Gin

(transitive) To trap something in a gin.

Gin

(archaic) To begin.

Gin

If.

Gin

Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.

Gin

If.

Gin

To begin; - often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.

Gin

To catch in a trap.

Gin

To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

Gin

A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; - also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.

Gin

Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

Gin

A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

Gin

A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

Gin

Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries

Gin

A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose

Gin

A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers

Gin

A form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points

Gin

Separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin

Gin

Trap with a snare;
Gin game

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