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Definitions: -GEN |
-GEN1. A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen. 2. A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Gen /jen/ n.,v. Short for generate, used frequently in both spoken and written contexts. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonyms by domain: general (general, transportationcomputing), Genetic Engineering Network (medicine), Genetic Engineering News (publishing & graphic arts), Geneva Environment Network (environment), gillnets and entangling nets (food & agriculture), Global Engineering Network (computing), Global European Network (computing, post & telecom), Group of European Nutritionists (food & agriculture). |
Crosswords: -GEN |
| Etymologies containing "-GEN": AEthogen, Alunogen, Amylogen ♦ Biogen, Botryogen ♦ Chondrigen, Chondrogen, Chrysogen, Collagen ♦ Dictyogen, Diisatogen ♦ Erythrogen ♦ fibrinogen ♦ Gasogen, Germogen, Gymnogen ♦ Haemochromogen ♦ Indogen, Inogen, Iodoformogen, Isatogen ♦ Mucigen ♦ Neogen ♦ Organogen, Osteogen ♦ Parigenin, Pepsinogen, Peptogen, Phellogen, Phillygenin, Phosphorogenic, Photogen, Plasmogen, Pyrogenic ♦ Quinogen ♦ Saligenin, Salogen, Sapogenin, Sclerogen ♦ Tannigen, Thallogen, Thermogen, trypsinogen ♦ Vitellogene ♦ Xanthogen, Xanthogenic, Xylogen ♦ Zymogen. (references) |
| "-GEN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.34% of the time. "-GEN" is used about 152 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.34% | 151 | 25,596 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.66% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 152 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Words ending with "en": Fen, Fren, Glen, Hen, Sken, Tren, When, Wren. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eng, gen. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n" | |
-1 letter: en, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n" | |
+1 letter: engs, gaen, gane, gene, gens, gent, genu, gien, glen, gone. | |
+2 letters: agene, agent, agone, angel, anger, angle, began, begin, begun, being, binge, conge, deign, dinge, eking, eying, feign, ganef, ganev, genes, genet, genic, genie, genii, genip, genoa, genom, genre, genro, gents, genua, genus, given, glean, glens, gnome, gonef, goner, green, hinge, ingle, longe, lunge, mange, negus, neigh, ngwee, nudge, pengo, range, regna, reign, renig, segni, segno, sengi, singe, tenge, thegn, tinge, unpeg, vegan, venge. | |
+3 letters: ageing, agency, agenda, agenes, agents, agnate, agnize, agones, anergy, angels, angers, angled, angler, angles, anlage, argent, augend, avenge, aweing, bagmen, banged, banger, bangle, begins, begone, beings, belong, benign, binged, binger, binges, biogen, blunge, bonged, bunged, bungee, bungle, bygone, cangue, ceding, cering, change, cogent, coigne, congee, conger, conges, cringe, cueing, cygnet, danged, danger, dangle, defang, deigns, deking, dengue, design, dewing, dieing, dinged, dinger, dinges, dingey, dingle, dongle, dunged, dyeing, earing, easing, eating, ebbing, eching, edging, egging, eggnog, eloign, encage, ending, energy, engage, engild, engine, engird, engirt, englut, engram, engulf, enigma, enough, enrage, ensign, epigon, eringo, erring, eryngo, exogen, eyeing, fanega, fanged, feeing, feigns, feting, feuing, finger, flange, fringe, gaeing, gagmen, gained, gainer, galena, gamine, gander, ganefs, ganevs, ganged, ganger, gangue, gannet, garden, garner, garnet, gasmen, geeing, gelant, gender, genera, genets, geneva, genial, genies, genips, genius, genoas, genome, genoms, genres, genros, gentes, gentil, gentle, gently, gentoo, gentry, gerent, german, germen, gerund, gieing, ginger, ginned, ginner, girned, givens, glance, gleans, gluten, gnawed, gnawer, gneiss, gnomes, gnoses, golden, gonefs, goners, gonged, gooney, goonie, gorhen, gotten, govern, gowned, graben, grange, graven, greens, greeny, groyne, grunge, guenon, guinea, gulden, gunite, gunmen, gunned, gunnel, gunnen, gunner, gunsel, gurnet, gurney, gyrene, haeing, hanged, hanger, hewing, hexing, hieing, hinged, hinger, hinges, hoeing, hunger, ignite, ignore, incage, ingate, ingest, ingles, jangle, jeeing, jewing, jingle, jungle, keying, kinged, lagend, lagune, langue, legend, leggin, legion, legman, legmen, legong, length, linage, linger, longed, longer, longes, lounge, lunged, lungee, lunger, lunges, magnet, manage, manege, mangel, manger, manges, mangey, mangle, menage, meting, mewing, mingle, monger, mongoe, morgen, nagged, nagger, negate, neighs, nidget, nigger, niggle, nighed, nigher, nogged, nonage, nonego, noodge, nudged, nudger, nudges, nugget, nutmeg, onager, oogeny, orange, orgone, oxygen, panged, pangen, peeing, penang, pengos, pieing, pigeon, pigpen, pinged, pinger, plunge, ponged, pongee, pungle, ragmen, ranged, ranger, ranges, reagin, reding, regain, regent, regina, region, regnal, regnum, rehang, rehung, reigns, renege, renigs, repugn, resign, ringed, ringer, sanger, seeing, segnos, senega, sering, sewing, sexing, signed, signee, signer, signet, singed, singer, singes, single, soigne, sponge, swinge, tanged, tangle, teeing, tegmen, tewing, thegns, tieing, tinged, tinges, tingle, toeing, tonged, tonger, tongue, twinge, unaged, uncage, unglue, ungues, unpegs, urgent, vegans, venged, venges, vexing, wangle, whinge, wigeon, winged, winger, zinged, zinger. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)2D 47 45 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00101101 01000111 01000101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)- G E N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)002D 0047 0045 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)15413948 |
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