Gain is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GAIN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to acquire
• obtain or secure (something wanted or desirable)
• benefit
• reach or arrive at (a destination)
• come closer to (a person or thing pursued)
• increase the amount or rate of (something, typically weight or speed)
• increase in value
• improve or advance in (some respect)
• (of a clock or watch) become fast by (a specific amount of time)
• acquire or obtain
• That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
• The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
• 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.
• win something through one\'s efforts
• derive a benefit from
• reach a destination, either real or abstract
• obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
• rise in rate or price
• increase or develop
• earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
• increase (one\'s body weight)
• win over to one's interest or views
NOUN:
• an increase in wealth or resources
• a thing that is achieved or acquired
• the factor by which power or voltage is increased in an amplifier or other electronic device, usually expressed as a logarithm
• 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.
• To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.
• 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.
• To draw into any interest or party; to win to one\'s side; to conciliate.
• To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
• To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.
• a quantity that is added
• the advantageous quality of being beneficial
• the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
• the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
• profit or advantage
ADJECTIVE:
• near, convenient
• Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
• straight or near

Words related to GAIN

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Words that contain GAIN

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How to use GAIN in a sentence

• Several of the Belgian nobility went forward to meet Alva, to render him the accustomed honors, and endeavor thus early to gain his good graces.
• On the other hand, works of which the value lies in their beauty gain by repetition, as they are then more and more understood.
• When a woman fails to gain her object she is apt to take refuge in tears, which are generally enough to force a mere man to bend to her wishes.
• It had not occurred to her to try to gain possession of the child.
• Then came to each the simultaneous realization that neither could gain anything by giving the other away, and that the only thing possible for either was to stand pat.
• Next he remembered that the provinces of Venetia, Trentino, and Istria still belonged to Austria, as the Italians had failed to gain them in the war of 1859.
• The English never before or afterward, whether in France or Scotland, lost so dreadful a battle as that of Bannockburn, nor did the Scots ever gain one of the same importance.
• I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
• Upon every supposition, it was my business to gain information.
• A man who followed a course by which he had nothing to gain and everything to lose was either a fool or was actuated by some profound unselfishness.
• We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.
• Yet I can feel, I rejoice to say, an inward spring which seems more and more to gain strength and to promise to resist outward shocks, if they must come, however rough.
• Some good solution will be necessary against red spider if through starvation in a dry situation it has been permitted to gain a footing.
• Where then is the gain to either party, which makes it a public blessing? There is no change in the state of things, but of persons only.
• These carried us before the bay, where we got a breeze from the land, and attempted in vain to work in to gain the anchoring-place.
• That there has been a gain in vitality in the younger age groups is unquestionably true, but this gain has served to mask a loss in vitality at the older age periods.
• Truly, I fear they will lose in valor what they may gain in discretion.
• During her stay in Vorden she made a distinct gain in the attainment of an individual style of painting.
• We have let it be known that we were in insufficient strength here and the Austrians evidently hope, by a quick drive, to gain a foothold on Italian soil.
• I leave that task to others whose time is less valuable than mine and who have something to gain by getting into the public eye.
• The Norsemen strove to gain possession of his armour, and piece by piece they carried it away.
• What he hoped to gain by his retreat was, however, not merely the security of the north.
• My good master, Captain Minner, sent me to Providence, in Rhode Island, to stay a year and a day, in order to gain my residence.
• The motive of the attack was not mere lust of conquest, but rather the desire of gain.
• If wealth and gain were the criterion, then the praise or blame of the lover of gain would surely be the most trustworthy? Assuredly.
• Last summer I gave to all over ten years of age a nickel, and those under ten a penny to see how much they could gain.
• This means that he must keep a week ahead in his preparation, which is in the end no loss, but even a gain.
• To gain a fair idea of the popularity of the library one should spend a mid-winter Saturday afternoon and evening with the librarian and his busy assistants.
• Utterly fruitless were all the means used by Claire to gain intelligence of the missing child.

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