gainern.

Brit.

/ˈɡeɪnə/, U.S.

/ˈɡeɪnər/

Forms: Also 1500s geyner, 1500s–1600s gayner.

Etymology: < gain v.² + -er suffix¹.

One who gains, makes profits, or derives advantage.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > profit-making > one who makes profit

winner1352

money-makera1450

gainer1538

profit taker1552

proficiary1621

profiter1683

superlucrator1683

money machine1833

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Lucrio, a couetous manne, an inordynate gayner.

1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 122 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. lxxxviii If merchauntes..Shoulde bee enriched and made grete geyners.

1590 W. Lambarde Office of Alienations in F. Bacon Wks. (1730) III. 554 The client, besides..retaining a good conscience..is always a gainer, and by no means can be at any loss.

1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 42. ⁋6 By extending a well-regulated Trade we are as great Gainers by the Commodities of many other Countries as of our own Nation.

1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. iv. 161 The interests of British India..will be gainers by the contest.

1884 Truth 13 Mar. 375/2 We should be losers rather than gainers.

Draft additions June 2018

Diving. A dive in which the diver leaves the board facing forward, executes a backward somersault, and enters the water feet first.

ΚΠ

1898 Arkansas Democrat 16 Apr. 6/5 Schuyler turns..a flying gainer somersault from the same height, which is said to be the most difficult feat ever attempted by any diver.

1922 Country Life (U.S.) July 60/3 All variety dives fall into four main groups—somersaults, twists, gainers, jack-knives.

1964 Citizen-Advertiser (Auburn, N.Y.) 21 Dec. 32/1 Phil Groben, a part-time instructor at the YMCA, did the jack-knife, gainer and a 1½-gainer on the diving board.

2014 M. Higgins Bird Dream viii. 108 Flinging his body backward, he executed a flawless gainer.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gainer
释义	gainern. Brit. /ˈɡeɪnə/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪnər/ Forms: Also 1500s geyner, 1500s–1600s gayner. Etymology: < gain v.² + -er suffix¹. One who gains, makes profits, or derives advantage. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > profit-making > one who makes profit winner1352 money-makera1450 gainer1538 profit taker1552 proficiary1621 profiter1683 superlucrator1683 money machine1833 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Lucrio, a couetous manne, an inordynate gayner. 1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 122 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. lxxxviii If merchauntes..Shoulde bee enriched and made grete geyners. 1590 W. Lambarde Office of Alienations in F. Bacon Wks. (1730) III. 554 The client, besides..retaining a good conscience..is always a gainer, and by no means can be at any loss. 1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 42. ⁋6 By extending a well-regulated Trade we are as great Gainers by the Commodities of many other Countries as of our own Nation. 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. iv. 161 The interests of British India..will be gainers by the contest. 1884 Truth 13 Mar. 375/2 We should be losers rather than gainers. Draft additions June 2018 Diving. A dive in which the diver leaves the board facing forward, executes a backward somersault, and enters the water feet first. ΚΠ 1898 Arkansas Democrat 16 Apr. 6/5 Schuyler turns..a flying gainer somersault from the same height, which is said to be the most difficult feat ever attempted by any diver. 1922 Country Life (U.S.) July 60/3 All variety dives fall into four main groups—somersaults, twists, gainers, jack-knives. 1964 Citizen-Advertiser (Auburn, N.Y.) 21 Dec. 32/1 Phil Groben, a part-time instructor at the YMCA, did the jack-knife, gainer and a 1½-gainer on the diving board. 2014 M. Higgins Bird Dream viii. 108 Flinging his body backward, he executed a flawless gainer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1538
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