TO GAIN ON

Definition: TO GAIN ON

TO GAIN ON

1. The ocean gains on the land. (b) To obtain influence with. (c) To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or contest. (d) To get the better of; to have the advantage of. The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. --Addison. My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. --Swift.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Translation: TO GAIN ON

Language		Translations for "TO GAIN ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		tért hódít (gain ground, to gain ground, to gain upon), utolér (Cote, gain on, gain upon, to come up with, to gain upon, to overhaul, to run down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		追い上�'る (to put pressure on). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おいあ�'る (to put pressure on). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay aingay onay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO GAIN ON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-n-o-o-t"
	-1 letter: atoning.
	-2 letters: anoint, anting, gitano, gonion, nation, noting, notion, toning.
	-3 letters: anion, giant, gonia, ingot, niton, onion, tango, tigon, tonga.
	-4 letters: agin, agio, agon, anon, anti, gain, gait, gnat, goat, goon, into, iota, naoi, nona, noon, nota, onto, tain, tang, ting, toga, tong, toon.
	-5 letters: ago, ain, ait, ani, ant, gan, gat, gin, git, goa.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-n-o-o-t"
	+1 letter: cognation, contagion, ozonating, ratooning.
	+2 letters: cartooning, cognations, contagions, coronating, elongation, langostino, platooning, rattooning.
	+3 letters: cartoonings, cognitional, congelation, conjugation, elongations, langostinos, negotiation, nondogmatic, nonrotating, origination, oxygenation, protonating, tobogganing.
	+4 letters: anastomosing, apportioning, cogeneration, congelations, conglobating, conglobation, congregation, conjugations, consignation, consociating, coordinating, gonadotropin, halogenation, invigoration, negotiations, nonmigratory, nonoperating, octogenarian, organisation, organization, originations, oxygenations, prolongation, tobogganings.
	+5 letters: aggiornamento, anthologizing, anthropogenic, cogenerations, configuration, conflagration, conglobations, congregations, conjugational, consignations, consolidating, deoxygenation, gonadotrophin, gonadotropins, halogenations, hydrogenation, incorporating, interrogation, invigorations, neonatologies, neonatologist, noncollegiate, noncontagious, nonnegotiable, nonobligatory, nonpathogenic, nonregulation, octogenarians, organisations, organizations, organogenetic, outorganizing, pathognomonic, prolongations, renegotiation.
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