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Gan
Definitions
- 1 One of the major varieties of Chinese, spoken in Jiangxi province.
- 2 Alternative form of Ngen (“dialect of the Beng language”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 4 A number of islands in the Maldives.; An industrial island of Addu.
- 5 A number of islands in the Maldives.; An uninhabited island of Gaafu Dhaalu.
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- 6 A number of islands in the Maldives.; A residential island of Laamu.
- 1 gallium nitride. uncountable
- 2 Acronym of generative adversarial network. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
"The GAN we look at in the next exercise is a vanilla GAN with convolution."
- 3 Initialism of Great American Novel. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"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."
- 4 Acronym of giant axonal neuropathy. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
- 5 Initialism of good article nomination. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 1 To go. North, Northumbria, Yorkshire
"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"."
- 2 simple past of gin archaic, form-of, past
Etymology
Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”).
From Mandarin 贛／赣 (Gàn, “Jiangxi; Gan (language)”).
Borrowed from Mandarin 甘 (Gān), Hokkien 顏／颜 (Gân), etc.
Borrowed from Dhivehi ގަން (gan̊).
See also for "gan"
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