different between gainer vs gailer
gainer
English
Etymology
From gain +? -er. Compare German Gegner (“opponent, adversary”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??e?n?/
- (US) IPA(key): /??e?n?/
Noun
gainer (plural gainers)
- One who gains a profit or advantage.
- 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.
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvi[2]:
- One who puts on weight.
- (sports, slang) A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
- 1961, Stanis?aw Lem, Return from the Stars, chapter 4:
- I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs.
- 1961, Stanis?aw Lem, Return from the Stars, chapter 4:
Derived terms
- weight gainer
Related terms
- back gainer sports
- full gainer sports
- gain
- half gainer sports
- reverse gainer sports
References
- OED2
Anagrams
- Gearin, Reagin, Regina, anigre, earing, in gear, inrage, raigne, reagin, regain, regian, regina
French
Etymology
From gaine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.ne/
Verb
gainer
- to cover, sheathe
Conjugation
Further reading
- “gainer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- graine, grainé, ignare, ingéra, régnai
gainer From the web:
- what gainer do
- what gainer should i use
- gainer means
- gainers what does it mean
- what's a gainer flip
- what mass gainer do
- what is gainer supplement
- what is gainer protein
gailer
Middle English
Noun
gailer
- jailer
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
gailer From the web:
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- gainer vs gailer
- jailer vs gailer
- gailer vs mailer
- gailer vs vailer
- maimer vs mainer
- mainer vs manner
- mainer vs mariner
- mainer vs gainer
- rainer vs mainer
- mainer vs vainer
- mainer vs mailer
- mainer vs mainor
- miner vs mainer
- vainer vs vailer
- viner vs vainer
- vanner vs vainer
- rainer vs vainer
- gainer vs vainer
- victim vs grainer
- terms vs grainer