gen

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

Adjective

  1. general

Origin

Clipping of general.

Related

genned in gen up

Derived

gen chem

Adverb

  1. Clipping of genuinely.

Noun Commonwealth, Ireland

  1. 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. - 2015, Nicholas...
  2. 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. - 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 172:
  3. Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.

    Synonyms: genfic

Noun informal

  1. A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
    • "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...
    • 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. - 2022...
  2. A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
    • 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...
    • […] 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...
    • 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...

Origin

Clipping of generation.

Forms

gens

Derived

gen AI Gen Alpha Gen X Gen Z iGen newgen next-gen proc-gen

Noun alt of

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

Forms

gens

Noun slang

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

    Synonyms: genny

Origin

Shortened from generate and generator.

Forms

gens

Noun UK, obsolete

  1. A shilling.
    • 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...
    • "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." - 1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows:

Origin

Etymology unknown. Possibilities include: * Clipping of argent * Clipping of generalise, from back slang for English shilling.

Forms

gens

Verb Entry 8

  1. 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. - 1991, Bruce H. Hunter, Karen Bradford Hunter, UNIX Systems: Advanced Administration and Management Handbook:
    • The older, genned files are difficult to keep up-to-date and are unsupported for some newer NICs. - 1993, Debra R. Niedermiller-Chaffins, Drew Heywood, Inside Novell NetWare, →ISBN, page 100:

Forms

gens genning genned

Verb literature, media

  1. 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. - 2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:
    • Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise. - 2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28:

Origin

Shortened from genetic engineering

Forms

gens genning genned