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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

... industrialism upon China before she has developed within herself the meaning of coping with the forces which it would release. The danger is great enough as it is. War waged in China's behalf by western powers and western methods would make the danger practically irresistible. In addition we should gain a permanent interest in China which is likely to be of the most dangerous character to ourselves. If we were not committed by it to future imperialism, we should be luckier than we have any right to hope to be. These things are said against a mental protest to admitting ...

— China, Japan and the U.S.A. - Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing - on the Washington Conference • John Dewey

... old family; but this is all new!" she said, in her artlessness. She wished that she had not fallen in so readily with her mother's plans for "claiming kin," and had endeavoured to gain assistance nearer home. ...

— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy

... the mode of existence there, it also makes a vast addition to the kind and degree of our knowledge respecting ourselves, and our personal relationships to God. This is by far the most important part of the new acquisition which we gain by the passage from time to eternity, and it is to this that the Apostle directs attention in the text. It is not so much the world that will be around us, when we are beyond the tomb, as it is the world that will be within us, that is of chief importance. Our circumstances ...

— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd

... the rain of shot and shell. It is always this way in an offensive, small or large. The first rush of the attacking side, be it German, French, British, or American, carries everything before it. It is the counter attack that tells. If the attackers are strong enough to hold what they gain, well and good. If not—the attack is ...

— Air Service Boys in the Big Battle • Charles Amory Beach

... honest Catholic, Who follow'd with the crowd to Cranmer's fire. One that would neither misreport nor lie, Not to gain paradise: no, nor if the Pope, Charged him to do it—he is white as death. Peters, how pale you look! you bring the smoke ...

— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson

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