gainer

See also: Gainer

English

Etymology

From gain +‎ -er. Compare German Gegner (“opponent, adversary”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪnə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪnɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

gainer (plural gainers)

1. One who gains a profit or advantage.
   • 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Noble Bachelor”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011:

     … it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.

   • 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvi^[2]:

     Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.

2. One who puts on weight.
3. (diving, gymnastics, slang) A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
   • 1961, Stanisław Lem, chapter 4, in Return from the Stars:

     I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs.

Derived terms

• hard gainer
• weight gainer

 

Related terms

• back gainer sports
• full gainer sports
• gain
• half gainer sports
• reverse gainer sports

References

• OED2

Anagrams

• Aigner, Gearin, Reagin, Regina, anigre, earing, in gear, inrage, raigne, reagin, regain, regian, regina

French

Etymology

From gaine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛ.ne/, /ɡe.ne/

• Audio:

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Verb

gainer

1. to cover, sheathe

Conjugation

Conjugation of gainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gainer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gainant /ɡɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ɡe.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gainé /ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gaine /ɡɛn/	gaines /ɡɛn/	gaine /ɡɛn/	gainons /ɡɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡe.nɔ̃/	gainez /ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/	gainent /ɡɛn/
	imperfect	gainais /ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/	gainais /ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/	gainait /ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/	gainions /ɡɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɡe.njɔ̃/	gainiez /ɡɛ.nje/ or /ɡe.nje/	gainaient /ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/
	past historic2	gainai /ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/	gainas /ɡɛ.na/ or /ɡe.na/	gaina /ɡɛ.na/ or /ɡe.na/	gainâmes /ɡɛ.nam/ or /ɡe.nam/	gainâtes /ɡɛ.nat/ or /ɡe.nat/	gainèrent /ɡɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ɡe.nɛʁ/
	future	gainerai /ɡɛn.ʁe/	gaineras /ɡɛn.ʁa/	gainera /ɡɛn.ʁa/	gainerons /ɡɛn.ʁɔ̃/	gainerez /ɡɛn.ʁe/	gaineront /ɡɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gainerais /ɡɛn.ʁɛ/	gainerais /ɡɛn.ʁɛ/	gainerait /ɡɛn.ʁɛ/	gainerions /ɡɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	gaineriez /ɡɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɡe.nə.ʁje/	gaineraient /ɡɛn.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	gaine /ɡɛn/	gaines /ɡɛn/	gaine /ɡɛn/	gainions /ɡɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɡe.njɔ̃/	gainiez /ɡɛ.nje/ or /ɡe.nje/	gainent /ɡɛn/
	imperfect2	gainasse /ɡɛ.nas/ or /ɡe.nas/	gainasses /ɡɛ.nas/ or /ɡe.nas/	gainât /ɡɛ.na/ or /ɡe.na/	gainassions /ɡɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡe.na.sjɔ̃/	gainassiez /ɡɛ.na.sje/ or /ɡe.na.sje/	gainassent /ɡɛ.nas/ or /ɡe.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gaine /ɡɛn/	—	gainons /ɡɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡe.nɔ̃/	gainez /ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “gainer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• graine, grainé, ignare, ingéra, régnai