(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.
(v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
(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.
(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.
(n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
(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. 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) The metabolism of [1,3-14C]benzo[f]quinoline (BfQ) by liver microsomes from control, 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC)-pretreated and phenobarbital (PB)-pretreated rats has been investigated in order to gain insights into the effect of mixed function oxidase inducers on the types and levels of specific metabolites as formed in vitro.
(3) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(4) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(5) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(6) Physicians working in the emergency room gained 14.7% during that time of day the PNP was present.
(7) The reference cohort consisted of 1725845 men otherwise gainfully employed.
(8) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(9) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
(10) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(11) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(12) These results suggest that aluminum is able to gain access to the central nervous system under normal physiological conditions.
(13) Averaged across all dietary levels, tiamulin resulted in a 14.1% improvement in gain and a 5.7% improvement in feed:gain ratio during the first 28 to 35 d of the experiment (to 30 kg).
(14) In the first trial to investigate the effect of tick control, significant improvements in liveweight gain (LWG) occurred only in periods of medium to high challenge with adult Amblyomma variegatum.
(15) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(16) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
(17) As a result, each may eventually gain widespread use after further development.
(18) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(19) At 24 days of age, the pups of HP, M and M-F diet groups, only gained 48%, 30% and 18% respectively, in their body weight, whereas the body-length parameters (LNC and LNRC) showed a reduction of 20%, 35%, and 45%, respectively for the same diet groups.
(20) Among the agents triggering such an infection Chlamydia (30.9% of the cases of non-gonorrhoic urethritis), as well as mycoplasma, ureaplasma, anaerobic bacteria and herpes simplex viruses have gained particular significance.
Gainer
Definition:
(n.) One who gains.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pensioners are biggest income gainers in year to April 2016 Photograph: Resolution Foundation and Office for National Statistics Anti-poverty campaigners also said the breakdown of incomes into large groups failed to capture the soaring earnings of the super-rich and executives in the top 1%.
(2) Miners Anglo American, Glencore and BHP Billiton were among the top gainers, tracking the price of copper higher.
(3) Those on lower incomes are significant gainers from the system.
(4) The paper was selling 306,000 before the closure of the NoW, making it the biggest gainer over the whole period.
(5) Suppliers of catering crockery have been the main gainers in recent years, because of a social shift to eating out.
(6) Shares in the bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland were among the early gainers because the Conservatives have pledged to press on with sales of their shares.
(7) The Spanish IBEX is the biggest gainer, up 1.2% today to 9964.
(8) The key beneficiary of this weekend’s news has not unexpectedly been travel stocks with Air France-KLM higher in Paris and Easyjet and International Consolidated Airlines in London amongst the gainers as well as turnaround story of the year Thomas Cook whose shares have risen over 700% in the last 12 months, and who are expected to show a return to profit when they report their latest numbers on Thursday this week.
(9) The maker of Pot Noodle, Dove soap and Vaseline's shares are up more than 4% in early trading, leading the FTSE 100 gainers.
(10) By contrast, rapid gainers were more compliant with prenatal visits and reported more depressive symptoms and alcohol consumption than did other study subjects.
(11) Energy companies and utilities Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shares in Centrica, shown on this chart against the FTSE 100, and SSE - Scottish and Southern Energy - were among the early gainers in the FTSE 100.
(12) Barclays and the bailed-out RBS were the biggest gainers in the FTSE 100, rising more than 2% each.
(13) R3-R14 manufacture specific low molecular weight peptides (Gainer and Wollberg, '74), and both the cell bodies (Iliffe et al., '77) and the germinals contain unusually high concentrations of glycine.
(14) Most female reducers and male gainers were already normal weight.
(15) In prospective studies weight gainers in adolescence are more often hypertensive than weight stable individuals.
(16) With the notable exception of the topmost twentieth, income groups in the top half were net gainers from the changes.
(17) One consequence has been the speed of the depreciation of the euro.” Carmakers, which rely on exports and benefit from a weaker euro, were among the biggest gainers, with BMW shares up nearly 5% to hit a record high and France’s Peugeot Citroën rising 3.7%.
(18) This underestimation, caused by not taking into account infants' random deviations from their own growth trajectories, ranged from 59% to 94% and resulted in misclassification of approximately 24-67% of infants as abnormal gainers (below the 5th percentile or above the 95th percentile with respect to existing reference data) in the intervals evaluated.
(19) In axoplasm, only the major 200,000 M(r) neurofilament protein and a specific protein of approximately 400,000 M(r) were labeled, as reported previously [Pant, H. C., Shecket, G., Gainer, H. & Lasek, R. J.
(20) MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) Pfizer up 3%, leads Dow gainers April 28, 2014 AstraZeneca's shares are still up 15% in London.