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Wat (wie) is Gain - definitie
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
GAIN; Gains; Gain (disambiguation)
Gain
·noun To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.
II. Gain ·vt The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
III. Gain ·adj Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
IV. Gain ·noun To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to Conciliate.
V. Gain ·noun To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.
VI. Gain ·vt That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit;
- opposed to loss.
VII. Gain ·noun To Reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
VIII. Gain ·noun 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.
IX. Gain ·noun 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.
X. Gain ·vi 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.
gain
I
n.
1) to make gains (in recent years minority groups have made considerable political gains)
2) to consolidate one's gains
3) to nullify a gain
4) a considerable, enormous, notable, substantial, tremendous; tangible gain
5) ill-gotten gains
6) (economics) capital gains
7) a gain to (a gain to our profession)
II
v.
1) to gain in ('to acquire') (to gain in experience)
2) (D; intr.) to gain on ('to move faster than') (the police were gaining on the fugitive; to gain on one's pursuers)
gain
(gains, gaining, gained)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If a person or place gains something such as an ability or quality, they gradually get more of it.
Students can gain valuable experience by working on the campus radio or magazine...
While it has lost its tranquility, the area has gained in liveliness.
VERB: V n, V in n
2.
If you gain from something such as an event or situation, you get some advantage or benefit from it.
The company didn't disclose how much it expects to gain from the two deals...
There is absolutely nothing to be gained by feeling bitter...
It is sad that a major company should try to gain from other people's suffering.
VERB: V n from/by n/-ing, V n from/by n/-ing, V from n
3.
To gain something such as weight or speed means to have an increase in that particular thing.
Some people do gain weight after they stop smoking...
She gained some 25lb in weight during her pregnancy.
? lose
VERB: V n, V amount
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Gain is also a noun.
Excessive weight gain doesn't do you any good.
= increase
N-VAR: usu with supp
4.
If you gain something, you obtain it, especially after a lot of hard work or effort.
They realise that passing exams is no longer enough to gain a place at university...
= obtain
VERB: V n
5.
If you do something for gain, you do it in order to get some advantage or profit for yourself, and for no other reason. (FORMAL)
...buying art solely for financial gain.
PHRASE: PHR after v [disapproval]
6.
If something such as an idea or an ideal gains ground, it gradually becomes more widely known or more popular.
The Christian right has been steadily gaining ground in state politics.
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
If you do something in order to gain time, you do it in order to give yourself enough time to think of an excuse or a way out of a difficult situation.
...I hoped to gain time by keeping him talking.
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR to-inf
Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor Gain
1. Under Doha, every nation will gain –– and the developing world stands to gain the most.
2. Fatah will gain the most seats, but I am hoping we will gain something.
3. Stroud – 1 gain . Oxford – 1 gain, Oxford Green Group now 8.
4. Under Doha, every nation will gain – and the developing world stands to gain the most.
5. Teva gained 1.1 percent, cutting an earlier gain of 2 percent gain.