Qin vs Gin - What's the difference?
qin | gin |
(music) seven-stringed classical Chinese zither that does not have a bridge, sometimes referred to as guqin where gu stands for ancient.
* 1989 , Zhongguo fu li hui, Chung-kuo fu li hui, China Reconstructs
* 2006 , Dana Standridge, Lessons in Essence: A Novel
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.
(uncountable) gin rummy
(poker) drawing the best card or combination of cards
(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
(obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
A snare or trap for game.
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.
(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
A pile driver.
A windpump.
A cotton gin.
An instrument of torture worked with screws.
To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
To trap something in a gin.
To invent (via Irish), see gin up
(archaic) To begin.
An Aboriginal woman.
* 1869 , Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia , Volume 1,
* 1988 , Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked , Angus & Robertson, 1995, p.179,
* 2008 , Bill Marsh, Jack Goldsmith, Goldie: Adventures in a Vanishing Australia ,
In lang=en terms the difference between qin and gin
is that qin is seven-stringed classical Chinese zither that does not have a bridge, sometimes referred to as guqin where gu stands for ancient while gin is drawing the best card or combination of cards.As a proper noun Qin
is an ancient feudal state of China that existed between 778 and 207 BC.As a verb gin is
to remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.qin
English
Noun
(en noun)- ... there was no longer anyone worth playing his qin' for, so he broke his instrument and never played again. The ' guqin was also a means of expressing love.
- He makes his qin' students take calligraphy with him, and calligraphy and painting students play the ' qin .
gin
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of geneva or alternatively from (etyl) . Hence Gin rummy (first attested 1941).Noun
(wikipedia gin)Derived terms
* bathtub gin * sloe ginReferences
* *Etymology 2
Aphetism of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
Verb
(ginn)Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
Etymology 4
From (etyl) dyin, but having acquired a derogatory tone., Australian Aboriginal Words'', Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, page 167.Noun
(en noun)page 273,
- His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.
- Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.
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- But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.