(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.
Predatory
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
(a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
(a.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
Example Sentences:
(1) When estrus was terminated with human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), predatory behavior did not further regress as it did in control runs.
(2) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(3) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(4) The introduction of Zonitoides nitidus -- predatory snail -- without vegetation modification produces a progressive elimination of Lymnaea in 3 years.
(5) The difficulty in reconciling these results with the preeminent role assigned to the hypothalamus in the organization of predatory aggressive behavior was considered.
(6) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(7) It is concluded that predatory behavior is based on specific mechanisms separate from both alimentary and instrumental ones.
(8) Paradoxical sleep is associated with a factor related to predatory danger, which suggests that large amounts of this sleep phase are disadvantageous in prey species.
(9) Once the story of a predatory homosexual was presented in court, Carr became a victim and the murder was framed as an honour killing.
(10) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(11) There is no independent proof that Kammerer was a predatory stalker; there is only Carr's word for the pursuit from St Louis to New York; there is persuasive evidence that Kammerer was not gay.
(12) Google's provision of its Android operating system for free is anti-competitive "predatory pricing", according to a complaint filed with European regulators by Fairsearch Europe, a group whose members include bitter rival Microsoft .
(13) The third experiment revealed that LiCl injections did not influence either maternal aggression or locust killing in naive females and predatory aggression in experienced-killer females.
(14) However, predatory attack on insect larvae was unaltered by any dose of the compound.
(15) He is hostile to the centralised state as well as predatory capitalism, concerned about rising levels of mental illness and worried about the widening income gap.
(16) The marine gastropods Acmaea (Collisella) limatula and Acmaea (Notoacmea) scutum respond to distant predatory starfish (i.e.
(17) They do so by accommodating predatory tax practices, in response to opportunities provided by countries like the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
(18) These findings clearly indicate that amphetamine reactivity is influenced by prior exposure to a predator, the presence of predatory odors during testing, and the subject's sex.
(19) Enough with bullshit like McDonald’s slapping MLK’s face on their predatory and poverty creating labor practices.
(20) The attorney general claimed the bank knew the trader engaged in predatory behaviour.