Gainer
[geinә]
Definition
(noun.) a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board.
(noun.) a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits); 'she was clearly the gainer in that exchange'.
(noun.) a person who gains weight.
Inputed by Agnes--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who gains.
Edited by Alison
Examples
- But the public would be a gainer, the work of all artificers coming in this way much cheaper to market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The community is certainly the gainer, and no one the loser, save the poor out-of-work specialist, whose occupation has gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The chances are that she must be a gainer. Jane Austen. Emma.
- A bargain, in which every true Catholic deems himself a gainer. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Certainly, he said, we shall be the gainers. Plato. The Republic.
Typist: Lottie