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Definitions: Gainer |
GainerNoun1. 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: GainerSynonyms: full gainer (n), weight gainer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gainer |
| English words defined with "gainer": full gainer ♦ half gainer ♦ weight 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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gainer | Last name | 2,000 | 6,702 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gainer": gainers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gainer": bargainer, regainer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gainer": bargainers, regainers. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gainer" (pronounced gā"ner) |
| 3 | -ā" n er | campaigner, complainer, container, drainer, entertainer, nonplanar, plainer, planar, planer, retainer, saner, trainer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 69 6E 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .. -. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a i n e r |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416775807184 |
| 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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