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Gain   /geɪn/   Listen
Gain

verb
(past & past part. gained; pres. part. gaining)
1.
Obtain.  Synonym: derive.
2.
Win something through one's efforts.  Synonyms: acquire, win.  "Gain an understanding of international finance"
3.
Derive a benefit from.  Synonyms: benefit, profit.
4.
Reach a destination, either real or abstract.  Synonyms: arrive at, attain, hit, make, reach.  "The water reached the doorstep" , "We barely made it to the finish line" , "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
5.
Obtain advantages, such as points, etc..  Synonyms: advance, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win.  "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference"
6.
Rise in rate or price.  Synonym: advance.
7.
Increase or develop.  Synonym: gather.  "The car gathers speed"
8.
Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages.  Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in.  "She earns a lot in her new job" , "This merger brought in lots of money" , "He clears $5,000 each month"
9.
Increase (one's body weight).  Synonym: put on.
noun
1.
A quantity that is added.  Synonyms: addition, increase.  "They recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks"
2.
The advantageous quality of being beneficial.  Synonym: profit.
3.
The amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input.  Synonym: amplification.
4.
The amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating.



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"Gain" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Crow chieftain the two parties encamped together, and passed the residue of the day in company. The captain was well pleased with every opportunity to gain a knowledge of the "unsophisticated sons of nature," who had so long been objects of his poetic speculations; and indeed this wild, horse-stealing tribe is one of the most notorious of the mountains. The chief, of course, had his scalps to show and his battles to recount. ...
— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving
... works whenever he pleased, and she must be a married woman before propriety would allow her to sing to his assembled friends; but marriage was a detail and of no consequence compared with the triumph he expected to gain by it; the girl's flight with the musician was a childish escapade of little importance, since it could be kept quite secret, and she might be supposed to have been spending a few days in a convent in Ravenna to complete ...
— Stradella • F(rancis) Marion Crawford
... itself. The tempest was still raging on the ocean, and the waves dashed against the island which, formed the entrance to the fiord of Noroe, forming two currents, which came and went with such violence in the narrow pass that it was impossible to gain the open sea. A steamboat could not have ventured through it, and a weak boat could not have resisted it for ...
— The Waif of the "Cynthia" • Andre Laurie and Jules Verne
... for her." The prayer seemed to raise her from some threatened abasement, and from her regained height she spoke with a sense of assured revelation. "We can't have things by merely wanting, them. To gain anything we must work for it. You left us. We didn't shut you out. You were different.—You ...
— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... who had no sooner exchanged her compliments with her royal aunt, than, profiting by another arrival, she drew me into a window and began: 'But, my good Gildippe, this is serious. You have left a distracted lover, and he is moving heaven and earth to gain you. Have you considered? You would gain a position. He has great influence with M. le Prince, who ...
— Stray Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge


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