genとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Clipping of general.

名詞

gen (uncountable)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Information.
   • 2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero:

     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.

2. (birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.
   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 172:

     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.

3. (fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.

同意語

• (fan fiction): genfic

参考

• genned in
• gen up

語源 2

名詞

gen (plural gens)

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

語源 3

Shortened from generate and generator.

動詞

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

1. To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.
   • 1991, Bruce H. Hunter, Karen Bradford Hunter, UNIX Systems: Advanced Administration and Management Handbook:

     Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.

   • 1993, Debra R. Niedermiller-Chaffins, Drew Heywood, Inside Novell NetWare, →ISBN, page 100:

     The older, genned files are difficult to keep up-to-date and are unsupported for some newer NICs.

   • 2010, Donald K. Burleson, Oracle Tuning: The Definitive Reference, →ISBN, page 1109:

     As the capacities of the large servers are exceeded, a new server is genned into the RAC cluster.

   • 2012, Robert Charles Wilson, Bios, →ISBN:

     The Turing factories on Isis's small moon had fallen short of productivity goals, though another two factory units had been genned.

名詞

gen (plural gens)

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

   Synonym: genny

語源 4

Shortened from genetic engineering

動詞

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

1. (science fiction) To genetically engineer.
   • 2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:

     Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.

   • 2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28:

     Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.

語源 5

Etymology unknown. Possibilities include:

• Clipping of argent
• Clipping of generalise, from back slang for English shilling.

名詞

gen (plural gens)

1. (obsolete, UK, slang) A shilling.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Gambling of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎, volume 1, page 17:

     The betting also began to shift. "Sixpence Ned wins!" cried three or four; "Sixpence he loses!" answered another; "Done!" and up went the halfpence. "Half-a-crown Joe loses!"—"Here you are," answered Joe, but he lost again. "I'll try you a 'gen'" (shilling) said a coster; "And a 'rouf yenap'" (fourpence), added the other. "Say a 'exes'" (sixpence).—"Done!" and the betting continued, till the ground was spotted with silver and halfpence.

   • 1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows:

     "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."

語源 6

Clipping of generation.

名詞

gen (plural gens)

1. (informal) A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
   • 2022 June 28, “Wimbledon tennis: Fans react to Kristina Mladenovic's eye-catching outfit”, in The New Zealand Herald‎:

     "Mladenovic playing in what the young gen is calling a crop top, but what my gen is calling a bra," Bouchard tweeted. "Sign of the times that Wimbledon has no issue with that. Still can remember the year some had troubles because of 'too short' skirts lol."

   • 2022 July 4, Ben Schott, “Is There Anything That Gen Z Won’t Drink?”, in The Washington Post‎:

     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.

2. (informal, in combination) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
   • 2004, Sally Bishai, “Courtship, Marriage and the Ubiquitous ‘Dating Thing’”, in Mid-East Meets West: On Being and Becoming a Modern Arab American, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 57:

     For my fellow first-gens, get ready to hide a smirk, because your life story is likely hidden somewhere in this chapter. For the uninitiated—that is, the person who's never had a thing to do with the Arab way of doing things (namely dating)—I advise you to buckle up.

   • 2016, Dwight Lang, “Witnessing Social Class in the Academy”, in Allison L. Hurst, Sandi Kawecka Nenga, editors, Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, part 2 (Teaching), page 102:

     […] I witness firsthand the difficult "downstream" outcomes (Grusky 2014) of social class stratification in a university setting where approximately 3,400 undergraduates (13% of the undergraduate population) are first in their families to attend and/or graduate from college (first-gens). Most of these students are low income and nearly 1,200 first-gens have grown up in poverty.

   • 2017, Temple Fennell, “SCIE: Sustainable Cycle of Investing Engagement”, in Kirby Rosplock, The Complete Direct Investing Handbook: A Guide for Family Offices, Qualified Purchasers, and Accredited Investors (Bloomberg Financial Series), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 242:

     The Family Values and Framing Strategy steps address soft issues as what is the purpose of the new investment strategy, is there a desire to engage and train the next generation (Next Gens), and is there building buy-in and engagement across the family members important to strengthen family unity.

派生語

アナグラム

• Neg, ENG, neg, Eng., eng, neg., eng., NGE, /neg, NEG

発音

• IPA: /jeːn/

副詞

ġēn

1. still, yet

語源 2

At least partly, a variant of ġēan

発音

• IPA: /jeːn/

副詞

ġēn

1. again, further

語源 3

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gagniz (“near, close”), see *gagin.

発音

• IPA: /jeːn/

形容詞

ġēn

1. short, direct, near (in distance)

参照

• Vladimir Orel (2003), “*ʒaʒniz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 122
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gén”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

接尾辞

-gen

1. A producer of something, or an agent in the production of something.

   mutagen ― an agent that gives rise to mutations

   tormogen ― a cell that forms a socket

使用する際の注意点

Used to form the names of three chemical elements: hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.

派生語

関連する語

• gene
• genesis
• genetic
• -gene
• -genic
• -genous
• -geny

アナグラム

• Neg, ENG, neg, Eng., eng, neg., eng., NGE, /neg, NEG

略号

/gen

1. (Internet slang, tone indicator) Denotes that the preceding statement is said in a genuine manner.
2. (Internet slang, tone indicator) Denotes that the preceding question is genuine, as opposed to rhetorical.

   Synonym: /genq

参照

アナグラム

• Neg, ENG, neg, Eng., eng, neg., eng., NGE, /neg, NEG

名詞

Gen. (plural Gens.)

1. (title) Abbreviation of General (military rank).
   • 1865, Report of the Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of the State of Iowa, Des Moines, Ia.: F. W. Palmer, […], page 1349:

     As soon as Gen. Steedman had completed his movement, the commands of Gens. Smith and Wilson moved out along the Harding pike, and commenced the grand movement of the day by wheeling to the left and advancing against the enemy’s position across the Harding and Hillsboro pikes.

2. (law) Abbreviation of general (business or agency description).

使用する際の注意点

(business or agency description): This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, p. 430-431.

固有名詞

Gen.

1. Abbreviation of Genesis.

アナグラム

• Neg, ENG, neg, Eng., eng, neg., eng., NGE, /neg, NEG