gainer
See also: Gainer
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪnə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪnɚ/
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
gainer (plural gainers)
- One who gains a profit or advantage.
- 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Noble Bachelor”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011:
- … it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvi:
- 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.
- One who puts on weight.
- (diving, gymnastics, slang) A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
- 1961, Stanisław Lem, chapter 4, in Return from the Stars:
- I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs.
Derived terms
Related terms
- back gainer sports
- full gainer sports
- gain
- half gainer sports
- reverse gainer sports
References
- OED2
French
Etymology
From gaine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɛ.ne/, /ɡe.ne/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of gainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | gainer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gainant /ɡɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ɡe.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gainé /ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gaine /ɡɛn/ |
gaines /ɡɛn/ |
gaine /ɡɛn/ |
gainons /ɡɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡe.nɔ̃/ |
gainez /ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/ |
gainent /ɡɛn/ |
| imperfect | gainais /ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/ |
gainais /ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/ |
gainait /ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/ |
gainions /ɡɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɡe.njɔ̃/ |
gainiez /ɡɛ.nje/ or /ɡe.nje/ |
gainaient /ɡɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡe.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gainai /ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/ |
gainas /ɡɛ.na/ or /ɡe.na/ |
gaina /ɡɛ.na/ or /ɡe.na/ |
gainâmes /ɡɛ.nam/ or /ɡe.nam/ |
gainâtes /ɡɛ.nat/ or /ɡe.nat/ |
gainèrent /ɡɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ɡe.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | gainerai /ɡɛn.ʁe/ |
gaineras /ɡɛn.ʁa/ |
gainera /ɡɛn.ʁa/ |
gainerons /ɡɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
gainerez /ɡɛn.ʁe/ |
gaineront /ɡɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | gainerais /ɡɛn.ʁɛ/ |
gainerais /ɡɛn.ʁɛ/ |
gainerait /ɡɛn.ʁɛ/ |
gainerions /ɡɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gaineriez /ɡɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɡe.nə.ʁje/ |
gaineraient /ɡɛn.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gaine /ɡɛn/ |
gaines /ɡɛn/ |
gaine /ɡɛn/ |
gainions /ɡɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɡe.njɔ̃/ |
gainiez /ɡɛ.nje/ or /ɡe.nje/ |
gainent /ɡɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | gainasse /ɡɛ.nas/ or /ɡe.nas/ |
gainasses /ɡɛ.nas/ or /ɡe.nas/ |
gainât /ɡɛ.na/ or /ɡe.na/ |
gainassions /ɡɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡe.na.sjɔ̃/ |
gainassiez /ɡɛ.na.sje/ or /ɡe.na.sje/ |
gainassent /ɡɛ.nas/ or /ɡe.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gaine /ɡɛn/ |
— | gainons /ɡɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡe.nɔ̃/ |
gainez /ɡɛ.ne/ or /ɡe.ne/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “gainer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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