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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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... the skull of one of his pursuers, whose heavy fall on the deck shook the schooner fore and aft: and then, aware that nothing more could be done, pitched his musket overboard, that they might not gain possession of it, and climbing, with a nimbleness suited to the occasion, up to the masthead, descended by the top-gallant stay, to the fore-topmast cross-trees, and joined Seymour, in the presence of the exasperated Frenchmen, who now, unable to reach either of them, were at a nonplus. ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... the world, the glorious world, To gain the prize, of the brave and bold, To snatch the crown from the age of gold— ...
— Poems • Walter R. Cassels

... English-speaking people, he is little known to our readers of ecclesiastical history. He applied himself first to the study of the Church Fathers, poring over their voluminous productions with all the zeal of an enthusiast. He was eager to gain an insight into contemporaneous theology as it was believed and practised by all the sects. He concluded that he could gain his object only by travel and personal observation. Consequently, he commenced a tour through Belgium, ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... restore the Russian-Jewish press. Three weeklies, the Russki Yevrey ("The Russian Jew"), the Razswyet ("The Dawn"), and later on the Voskhod ("The Sunrise"), were started in St. Petersburg, all endeavoring to gain the hearts of the Russian Jewish intelligenzia. In the midst of this work they were overwhelmed by the terrific cataclysm of 1881, which decided the further destinies of ...
— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... insurgent forces pressing for admission, to quietly disarm an army of Spaniards more than equal in numbers to the American troops, and finally by all this to prevent entirely all rapine, pillage, and disorder, and gain entire and complete possession of a city of 300,000 people filled with natives hostile to the European interests, and stirred up by the knowledge that their own people were fighting in the outside trenches, ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead


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