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aumento
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Gain
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
- (n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.
- (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
- (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to ones side; to conciliate.
- (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
- (v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
- (n.) 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.
Synonyms:
Addition, Advance, Amplification, Attain, Benefit, Clear, Derive, Earn, Hit, Increase, Make, Profit, Reach, Realize, Win,
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• Gainage
- (v. t.) The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.
- (v. t.) The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
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• Gaining
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gain
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coralline, jettison, ravel, per, increase, permit, play, detective, bust, true, lecturer, audition, athwart, pimpled, thrift, mark, horned, pejorative, queenlike, determine, andesite, polyurethane, tome, swoop, disconnectedly, banish, more, pseudopod, bequeath, bobsled, learner, beatitude, |
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Abash, Love, What, I, Dawn, Smart, Pervert, Morn, Chagrin, Hi, Abandon, Confuse, Bye, No, Abalone, Press, Money, Abate, Good morning, TRUE, Sorry, Abdicate, Abbe, Abaft, Aback, Abattoir, Abbot, Aardvark, A.M., Abashment, Abashed, Clairvoyance, |
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