Gain
[geɪn] or [ɡen]
Definition
(noun.) the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating.
(verb.) increase (one's body weight); 'She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising'.
(verb.) increase or develop; 'the peace movement gained momentum'; 'the car gathers speed'.
(verb.) obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; 'The home team was gaining ground'; 'After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference'.
(verb.) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; 'How much do you make a month in your new job?'; 'She earns a lot in her new job'; 'this merger brought in lots of money'; 'He clears $5,000 each month'.
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Definition
(n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
(a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
(v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
(v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
(n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.
(n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.
(n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
(n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
(n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.
(v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.
Editor: Patrick
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Profit, advantage, benefit, emolument, lucre.
v. a. [1]. Get, (by effort), acquire, obtain, procure, achieve, secure, carry, win, earn, get possession of.[2]. Conciliate, persuade, enlist, get the good will of, prevail upon, bring over, win over, gain over.[3]. Reach, attain, arrive at.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See GAIN]
SYN:Acquire, get, win, procure, obtain, profit, benefit, earn, attain, realize,achieve, reap, reach
ANT:Lose, forfeit, suffer
Inputed by Estella
Definition
adj. (prov.) near straight.
v.t. to obtain by effort: to earn: to be successful in: to draw to one's own party bribe: to reach: to make advance: (N. T.) to escape.—n. that which is gained: profit.—adj. Gain′able.—n. Gain′er.—adj. Gain′ful.—adv. Gain′fully.—n. Gain′fulness.—n.pl. Gain′ings.—adj. Gain′less.—n. Gain′lessness.—Gain ground (see Ground); Gain upon to overtake by degrees.
Editor: Tod
Examples
- But her repetition of it would gain time--time for Frederick. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Then the wise and good will not desire to gain more than his like, but more than his unlike and opposite? Plato. The Republic.
- I try, but every day I lose a little, and feel more sure that I shall never gain it back. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I attempted to gain time--nay, I did worse. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This victory gained, Rokesmith made haste to profit by it, for he saw how woefully time had been lost. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And it gained its point after all, for I saw it through the window within a few minutes, being nursed by little Jane. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I gained the top of the stairs and ran along the passage. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Certainly, sir, said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly gained property under his arm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Three brigades held the hill already gained. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That is what happens when you telephone, but when you realize it the mystery gains rather than decreases. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Hence he was not ready to frame excuses for this deliberate pursuit of small gains. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In 1847, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I've no doubt his visit to England was paid for out of his ill-gotten gains. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- When the seeds in our fruits become atrophied, the fruit itself gains largely in size and quality. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- No one could remember it without gaining faith in the mystery, without the soul's warming with new, deep life-truSt. And Gerald! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What thinkst thou of gaining fair lands and livings, by wedding a Saxon, after the fashion of the followers of the Conqueror? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The commercial motorcycle is said to be gaining widespread favor, and therein lies its greatest future. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Will not this be worth gaining? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is not a question of gaining a social advantage by a s mattering of foreign languages. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I asked him a few questions--but not with a view of gaining any particular information--all of which he answered, and I rode off. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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