What's the difference between gain and lain?

Gain


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (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.

Lain


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Lie, v. i.
  • (p. p.) of Lie

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cycling the city: 'I have a dream that Jakarta should be like Copenhagen' Read more “Jalanku sekarang lebih bersih,” ujar orang-orang, tanpa memedulikan fakta bahwa 6,000 ton sampah dikumpulkan untuk kemudian dipindahkan tanpa tindak berkelanjutan ke bagian kota yang lain.
  • (2) 259, 3962-3970] and weaken the binding to gelatin [Zhu, B. C. R. & Laine, R. A.
  • (3) Asparagine-N-linked polylactosaminyl glycosylation of the chymotryptic 44-kDa gelatin-binding domain from human placental fibronectin confers protease resistance [Zhu, B. C. R., Fisher, S. F., Panda, H., Calaycay, J., Shively, J. E. & Laine, R. A.
  • (4) Where cells from different positions were confronted, new cuticular structures corresponding to the positions which would normally have lain between them were formed during the following moults.
  • (5) "Look – Putin didn't find down there jugs that had lain there for many thousands of years.
  • (6) A lain, a repair man, was up a ladder fixing shop signs and, as he put it, "working like a dog to earn 900 pounds a month and still barely feed the family".
  • (7) Tordenskiold has lain since 1819 in a marble sarchophagus in the Danish Naval Church in Copenhagen, but still without the blessing of the Church, because duels were forbidden.
  • (8) Our previous results suggest that 4.5-7-kDa poly(N-acetyllactosamine) structures reduce the binding of fibronectin and its chymotryptic Ala260-Trp599 subdomain GB44 to gelatin [Zhu, B. C. R. & Laine, R. A.
  • (9) Sat in front of the mainline train station at the top end of the North Laine, this pencil-straight street is often the first road visitors and commuters cut down to reach the centre of town.
  • (10) Known in China as the Diaoyu Islands, this small collection of islets and rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea has lain outside of direct Chinese control since 1895.
  • (11) They are some of the country’s greatest untouched treasures, having lain undisturbed on the seabed, in some cases for centuries.
  • (12) Their chosen medium was, by the sounds of it, terrifyingly primitive sax noodling lain atop cardboard box drums and one-chord detuned stumble-thrash.
  • (13) He's already revived a practice that had lain dormant for nearly a decade, destroying the homes of the men suspected of these killings.
  • (14) Lain Hensley, chief operating officer at Odyssey Teams, recalls the fear and loneliness he felt when he was diagnosed with cancer , for example.
  • (15) Their latest switcheroo sees Gare Ornano, a high-ceilinged station which had lain vacant since 1939, become an eco-focused cafe, restaurant, garden and urban farm.
  • (16) This futile cycle and the unusual sn-1-glycerophospho-sn-1'-glycerol stereoconfiguration of the water-soluble backbone (Joutti, A., Brotherus, J., Renkonen, O., Laine, R., and Fischer, W. (1976) Biochim.
  • (17) Explanations of rural-urban fertility differentials have normally lain in assumptions about the traditionalist nature of rural, and especially agricultural, societies in contrast to the more rationalist and modern attitudes towards the family that exist in urban societies.
  • (18) Having lain down in the delivery room, the patient immediately lapsed into a coma and developed hemiplegia on the right side of the body.
  • (19) They have a point: as a Brighton resident, I'm more concerned about the uncertain future of the tiny Borderline Records in North Laine than I am about the local HMV , because I love shopping in the former, and the last time I went into the latter, I came out wearing the expression of existential despair I normally reserve for Sunday visits to Ikea.
  • (20) I am certain that if he had not lain in hospital for five weeks, with no one who loved him to take care of him, he would not have descended into such a state of incapacity.