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gain
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English gayn, gain, gein (“profit, advantage”), from Old Norse gagn (“benefit, advantage, use”), from Proto-Germanic *gagn?, *gagan? (“gain, profit", literally "return”), from Proto-Germanic *gagana (“back, against, in return”), a reduplication of Proto-Germanic *ga- (“with, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“next to, at, with, along”). Cognate with Icelandic gagn (“gain, advantage, use”), Swedish gagn (“benefit, profit”), Danish gavn (“gain, profit, success”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (gageigan, “to gain, profit”), Old Norse gegn (“ready”), dialectal Swedish gen (“useful, noteful”), Latin cum (“with”); see gain-, again, against. Compare also Middle English gaynen, geinen (“to be of use, profit, avail”), Icelandic and Swedish gagna (“to avail, help”), Danish gavne (“to benefit”).
The Middle English word was reinforced by Middle French gain (“gain, profit, advancement, cultivation”), from Old French gaaing, gaaigne, gaigne, a noun derivative of gaaignier (“to till, earn, win”), from Frankish *waidanjan (“to pasture, graze, hunt for food”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waiþiz, *waiþ?, *waiþij? (“pasture, field, hunting ground”); compare Old High German weid?n, weidan?n (“to hunt, forage for food”) (Modern German Weide (“pasture”)), Old Norse veiða (“to catch, hunt”), Old English w?þan (“to hunt, chase, pursue”). Related to wathe, wide.
Verb
gain (third-person singular simple present gains, present participle gaining, simple past and past participle gained)
- (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- Looks like you've gained a new friend.
- (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
- The sick man gains daily.
- (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
- to gain a battle; to gain a case at law
- (transitive) To increase.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
- I'm gaining (on you).
- gain ground
- (transitive) To reach.
- to gain the top of a mountain
- 1907, Jack London, The Iron Heel:
- Ernest laughed harshly and savagely when he had gained the street.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
- If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
- to gratify the queen, and gain the court
- (intransitive) To put on weight.
- I've been gaining.
- (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
gain (countable and uncountable, plural gains)
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Maude
- the lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Maude
- What is gained.
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- 1987, John Borwick, Sound recording practice (page 238)
- There follows the high and low-frequency replay equalization, which normally involves two adjustments with a further control allowing the replay gain to be set.
- 1987, John Borwick, Sound recording practice (page 238)
Antonyms
- loss
Derived terms
- autogain
- gainful
- gainsome
- gain-ground (game)
Translations
Etymology 2
From dialectal English gen, gin, short for again, agen (“against”); also Middle English gain, gayn, gein, ?æn (“against”), from Old English g?an, ge?n (“against”). More at against.
Preposition
gain
- (obsolete) Against.
Derived terms
- gainful
Etymology 3
From Middle English gayn, gein, geyn (“straight, direct, short, fit, good”), from Old Norse gegn (“straight, direct, short, ready, serviceable, kindly”), from gegn (“opposite, against”, adverb) (whence gagna (“to go against, meet, suit, be meet”)); see below at gain. Adverb from Middle English gayn, gayne (“fitly, quickly”), from the adjective.
Adjective
gain (comparative more gain, superlative most gain)
- (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
- the gainest way
- (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
- (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
- (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
Translations
Derived terms
- gainly
- gainsome
Adverb
gain (comparative more gain, superlative most gain)
- (obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
- (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
- (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
- gain quiet (= fairly/pretty quiet)
Etymology 4
Compare Welsh gan (“a mortise”).
Noun
gain (plural gains)
- (architecture) A square or bevelled 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.
Anagrams
- Agin, Agni, Angi, Gina, NGIA, Nagi, Ngai, a- -ing, ag'in, agin, gina, inga
Basque
Noun
gain
- summit
French
Etymology
From Middle French gain, from Old French gaaing, from the verb gaaignier (“to earn, gain, seize, conquer by force”), from Frankish *waidanjan (“to graze, forage, hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *waiþ? (“a hunt, pasture, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh?- (“to seek, crave, hunt”). Cognate with Old High German weidan?n (“to hunt, chase”), German Weide (“pasture, pasturage”). Compare also related Old French gain (“harvest time, revival”), from Frankish *waida (“income, food, fodder”) (whence French regain), from the same Germanic source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
Noun
gain m (plural gains)
- (usually in the plural) winnings, earnings, takings
- (finance) gain, yield
Derived terms
- gain de cause
- gain du temps
Further reading
- “gain” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Louisiana Creole French
Etymology
From French gagner (“to gain”), compare Haitian Creole gen.
Verb
gain
- to have
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old Norse gegn.
Adjective
gain
- Alternative form of gayn (“direct, fast, good, helpful”)
Etymology 2
From Old Norse gagn.
Noun
gain
- Alternative form of gayn (“gain, reward, advantage”)
Etymology 3
From Old Norse gegna.
Verb
gain
- Alternative form of gaynen
Etymology 4
From Old English ?e?n, gæ?n, from Proto-Germanic *gagin; also influenced by Old Norse gegn, from the same Proto-Germanic form. Doublet of gayn (“direct, fast, good, helpful”).
Alternative forms
- gayn, gein, ?æn, ?ein, ?ean, gayne, gen, gan, gaine, geyn
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?n/, /?e?n/, /j?i?n/, /je?n/
Preposition
gain
- against, next to, touching
- (figuratively) against, opposed to, counter to, opposing (usually used in religious and spiritual contexts)
- towards, to, nearing
- (rare) on, on top of
- (rare) facing, pointed towards
Descendants
- English: gain (obsolete)
- Scots: gain, gin
References
- “y??n, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
Adverb
gain
- back (to), returning (to)
References
- “y??n, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
Middle French
Etymology
Old French gaaing.
Noun
gain m (plural gains)
- income (financial)
Descendants
- French: gain
References
- gain on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ai?n/
Adjective
gain
- Soft mutation of cain.
Mutation
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occupy
English
Etymology
From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occup?re (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capi? (“to take”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??kj?pa?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??kj?pa?/
- Hyphenation: oc?cu?py
Verb
occupy (third-person singular simple present occupies, present participle occupying, simple past and past participle occupied)
- (transitive, of time) To take or use.
- To fill.
- To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
- To fill or hold (an official position or role).
- To hold the attention of.
- To fill.
- (transitive) To take or use space.
- To fill space.
- To live or reside in.
- The better apartments were already occupied.
- (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
- 1940, in The China monthly review, volumes 94-95, page 370 [1]:
- The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, […]
- 1975, Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643, page 330 [2]:
- Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
- 1983, Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902, page 462:
- One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied, but could not be held.
- 1991, Werner Spies, John William Gabriel, Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe, page 333:
- Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.
- 2006, John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, page 496:
- Spain occupied, but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.
- 1940, in The China monthly review, volumes 94-95, page 370 [1]:
- (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
- To fill space.
- (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
- 1590s, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, II.iv
- God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
- 1867, Robert Nares A Glossary
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy. 2 Hen. IV, ii, 4.
- Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
- For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy his land. B. Jons. Epigr., 117.
- Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy, nature, and the like. Ibid., Discoveries, vol. vii, p. 119.
- It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- 1590s, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, II.iv
- (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
- All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (tr.), Sir Thomas More's Utopia (in Latin), 1516
- not able to occupy their old crafts
- (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
- all the gold that was occupied for the work
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (tr.), Sir Thomas More's Utopia (in Latin), 1516
- They occupy not money themselves.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (to possess or use the time or capacity of): employ, busy
- (to have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Derived terms
- occupier
Related terms
- occupant
- occupation
Translations
See also
- Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year
References
- occupy at OneLook Dictionary Search
- occupy in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- occupy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- occupy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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