Gainer

  

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Gainer

Definitions: Gainer

Gainer

Noun

1. A person who gains weight.

2. A person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits); "she was clearly the gainer in that exchange".

3. A dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gainer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonyms: Gainer

Synonyms: full gainer (n), weight gainer (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Gainer

English words defined with "gainer": full gainerhalf gainerweight gainer. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Gainer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (encase, sheathe).

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Commercial Usage: Gainer

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Gainer

"Gainer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Gainer" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)75%3202,518
Noun (proper)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Gainer

The following table summarizes the usage of "gainer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GainerLast name2,0006,702
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Gainer

Expressions using "gainer": be a gainer by full gainer half gainer weight gainer. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gainer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gainer

470

weight gainer

262

hard gainer

13

gainer gloria

12

gainer gnc weight

11

cyto gainer

9

muscle gainer

8

gainer pill weight

7

best weight gainer

7

fat gainer

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gainer

Language Translations for "gainer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏كاسب. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نفع بر, کسیکه سودمیبرد, استفاده کننده (User, Utilizer), شیرجه ازپشت , درخت ارغوان . (various references)

   

French

  

gagnant. (various references)

   

German

  

Gewinner (winner, winners). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κερδίζων (winning). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyerő (top notch, winner, winning). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pemenang (conqueror, vanquisher, victor, winner), memperoleh keuntungan. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

승자. (various references)

   

Manx

  

cosneyder (earner, scorer, winner). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainergay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

câştigãtor (prizeman, winner, winning), beneficiar (beneficiary, economic, recipient). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выигравший, победитель (champion, conqueror, top dog, vanquisher, winner, worldbeater). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vinnare (winner). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผู้ไ"้กำไร. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saltolu dalış, kazanan (conquering, conqueror, top dog, Victor, winner, winning), kazançlı çıkan kimse. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người thắng cuộc (victor), người được. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

enillwr (winner). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Gainer

Derivations

Words beginning with "gainer": gainers. (additional references)

Words ending with "gainer": bargainer, regainer. (additional references)

Words containing "gainer": bargainers, regainers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Gainer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agier, agine, ainer, Ainur, Fainaru, fainer, gaider, gaine, gainee, gaini, gainne, Gaintec, gairer, ganery, ganie, Ganner, ganre, Gasiyev, Gasnier, Gatinara, Gauner, gaunr, gaymer, gayner, Geier, geine, ginepro, ginir, glinner, goine, grainery, granifera, Guignard, guinep, Guiren, Gunier, gwine, Kijiner, wainer, Zaehner. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gainer"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "gainer" (pronounced gā"ner)
3-ā" n ercampaigner, complainer, container, drainer, entertainer, nonplanar, plainer, planar, planer, retainer, saner, trainer.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Gainer

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: earing, reagin, regain, regina.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r"

-1 letter: anger, garni, grain, range, regna, reign, renig.

-2 letters: ager, agin, airn, earn, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gien, girn, gnar, gran, grin, near, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rein, ring.

-3 letters: age, ain, air, ane, ani, are, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gan, gar, gen, gie, gin, ire, nae, nag, rag, ran, reg, rei, ria, rig, rin.

-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, ar, en, er, in, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r"
 

+1 letter: aginner, aligner, anergia, anergic, angrier, bearing, deraign, earings, earning, earring, engrail, engrain, erasing, fearing, gainers, gearing, germina, gradine, grained, grainer, granite, grannie, gratine, hearing, ingrate, mangier, naggier, nargile, nearing, rangier, reading, reagins, realign, reaming, reaping, rearing, reaving, regains, reginae, reginal, reginas, searing, seringa, tangier, tearing, vinegar, wearing, zingare.

 

+2 letters: adhering, aerating, aginners, agreeing, alerting, algerine, aligners, allergin, altering, amercing, anearing, anergias, anergies, angaries, angering, angriest, argentic, arginase, arginine, assigner, astringe, averring, averting, bearding, bearings, beraking, berating, bewaring, blearing, breading, breaking, breaming, capering, catering, clearing, creaking, creaming, creasing, creating, deairing, deraigns, derating, dragline, drainage, dreading, dreaming, earnings, earrings, earthing, emigrant, engrails, engrains, enraging, finagler, firefang, freaking, gainlier, ganglier, ganister, gantries, gardenia, gearings, geranial, geraniol, geranium, germanic, germinal, gesneria, gnarlier, gnattier, gradient, gradines, grainers, grainier, granites, grannies, grapline, gratinee, greasing, grievant, hangfire, havering, hearings, hearsing, hearting, imaginer, ingather, ingrates, integral, interage, janglier, lagering, layering, learning, maligner, malinger, margined, midrange, migraine, narghile, nargileh, nargiles, orangier, organdie, organise, organize, papering, pearling, perigean, rangiest, raveling, ravening, razeeing, reaching, reacting, readding, readings, readying, reaginic, realigns, rearming, reassign, rebating, recaning, redating, refacing, regained, regainer, regaling, regional, relacing, relating, relaxing, relaying, remaking, remating, renaming, repaving, repaying, resawing, resaying, retaking, retaping, retaxing, rewaking, rewaxing, sabering, seringas, shearing, signaler, slangier, smearing, snaggier, spearing, swearing, synergia, tabering, tanglier, tapering, treading, treating, triangle, twangier, vinegars, vinegary, vintager, wafering, wagering, watering, wavering, wearying, wreaking, yearling, yearning.

 

+3 letters: aborigine, accreting, adverting, aerifying, agentries, algerines, allergins, angriness, answering, antiglare, appearing, aragonite, argentine, argentite, arginases, arginines, arraigned, arresting, ashlering, aspersing, asserting, assigners, astringed, astringes, aubergine, aureoling, averaging, badgering, bannering, bantering, barbering, bargained, bargainer, barreling, bartering, battering, beavering, bedraping, beggaring, bereaving, betraying, bewraying, brazening, breaching, breakings, breasting, breathing, cambering, cankering, cantering, careening, careering, caressing, carpeting, caverning, cellaring, centigram, chagrined, clavering, clearings, clearwing, cratering, cravening, cremating, dackering, daggering, daikering, dandering, dangering, darkening, debarking, debarring, declaring, defraying, degrading, demarking, denigrate, departing, depraving, deraigned, derailing, deranging, deratting, diapering, dogearing, draglines, drainages, earthling, embarking, embarring, embracing, emigrants, enamoring, endearing, enframing, engrailed, engrained, engraving, enlarging, ensnaring, escarping, estraying, faltering, farseeing, fathering, featuring, finaglers, firefangs, frangible, gabardine, gaberdine, gainsayer, gandering, ganisters, gannister, gardenias, gardening, garnering, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, garniture, gartering, gathering, gauntries, geranials, geraniols, geraniums, germanium, germanize, germinate, gesneriad, gheraoing, girandole, gnarliest, gradients, grainiest, granaries, grandiose, grandsire, granulite, grapevine, grapiness, graplines, gratineed, gratinees, graveling, greenmail, gregarine, grenadier, grenadine, grievance, grievants, guaranies, hagridden, haltering, hammering, hampering, hangfires, hankering, harbinger, hardening, harkening, heralding, ignorable, ignorance, imaginers, ingathers, ingrafted, ingrained, integrals, integrand, integrate, intergang, iterating, jabbering, jargonize, kashering, kingmaker, laagering, lackering, laddering, lappering, lathering, laureling, laveering, lawyering, layerings, learnings, legionary, magnifier, maligners, malingers, mammering, margarine, marginate, marketing, marveling, mastering, mattering, measuring, menagerie, midranges, migraines, morganite, narghiles, nargilehs, nattering, naughtier, neuralgia, neuralgic, neuroglia, niggarded, nightmare, nightwear, omnirange, operating, orangerie, orangiest, organdies, organised, organiser, organises, organized, organizer, organizes, organzine, originate, overawing, paganizer, paltering, pampering, pandering, panegyric, parceling, parenting, pargeting, pargyline, parleying, pattering, paupering, pellagrin, pervading, preaching, preacting, prearming, preassign, prebaking, predating, prefacing, prefading, preparing, prepaying, presaging, pretaping, quavering, rabbeting, racketing, ranginess, rappeling, rarefying, rattening, ravelings, ravelling, ravenings, realigned, realising, realizing, rearguing, reasoning, reassigns, reavowing, reawaking, rebaiting, recalling, recanting, recapping, recasting, recoaling, recoinage, recrating, redacting, redialing, redrawing, reearning, refalling, reflating, reframing, regainers, regaining, regarding, regauging, regearing, regionals, reglazing, regrading, regrating, rehabbing, rehanging, rehashing, rehearing, reheating, reimagine, reimaging, relapsing, releasing, reloading, reloaning, remailing, remaining, remanding, remanning, remapping, remarking, renailing, repacking, repairing, reparking, repassing, repasting, repealing, repeating, replacing, replating, replaying, reracking, reraising, rereading, resailing, rescaling, resealing, reseating, reshaping, reshaving, reslating, resoaking, respacing, respading, restaging, restating, retacking, retagging, retailing, retaining, retarding, retasting, reteaming, retearing, retracing, revaluing, revamping, revealing, rewarding, rewarming, rewashing, reweaving, saggering, screaking, screaming, seafaring, searching, searingly, seriating, serrating, shearings, shearling, shrinkage, signalers, signaller, signature, slavering, spanglier, spreading, stingaree, streaking, streaming, synergias, tampering, tangerine, targeting, tattering, terracing, threading, threaping, threating, tragedian, trameling, trapesing, traveling, treadling, triangles, unbearing, upbearing, uprearing, uptearing, vinegared, vintagers, wandering, waterings, wearingly, wreathing, yabbering, yammering, yattering, yearlings, yearnings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Gainer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 69 6E 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    ..    -.    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0069 006E 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

416775807184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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