Phrase Hound found 34 phrases and 77 compound words that contain gain. The most common are listed below. Open gain in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 34
- weight gainAn increase in weight, usually of a person or animal.
- capital gainAn increase in the value of a capital asset; an amount by which the value or the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner exceed its cost to the owner.
- line to gainThe points on the football field needed to pass to convert a first down.
- gain weightTo become more heavy or obese.
- gain groundTo make progress or obtain advantage; to gain traction.
- gain of functionAn increase in virulence or transmissibility
- Personal gain
- brain-gainAlternative form of brain gain.
- Net gain
- gain linean imaginary line running across the pitch perpendicular to the touchline and passing through the breakdown or set piece. The subsequent phase is said to have passed "over the gain line" if the gain line at the subsequent breakdown is in …
- gain-sharingAlternative spelling of gainsharing: A compensation system in which companies share the financial value of performance gains, such as productivity, cost savings, or quality, with their workers.
- solar gainThe increase in thermal energy of a space, object or structure as it absorbs incident solar radiation.
- gain timeA reduction of a prisoner’s sentence due to exemplary behavior or participation in a rehabilitation program during incarceration.
- gain linesplural of gain line: an imaginary line running across the pitch perpendicular to the touchline and passing through the breakdown or set piece. The subsequent phase is said to have passed "over the gain line" if the gain line at the …
- gain overTo win over (someone); to convince (someone) into joining one's own side in a conflict.
- gain timesplural of gain time: A reduction of a prisoner’s sentence due to exemplary behavior or participation in a rehabilitation program during incarceration.
- gain-of-function researchMedical research that alters an organism or disease in a way that increases pathogenesis, transmissibility, or host range.
- time-varied gainSynonym of time-gain compensation: A setting applied in diagnostic ultrasound imaging to account for tissue attenuation, in which the received signal intensity with depth is increased.
- gain steamSynonym of gather steam: To increase in strength, popularity, or energy.
- one man's loss is another man's gainSome people's misfortune is other people's fortune.
- gain momentumTo increase something's own speed while being acted on by gravity.
- no gain without painAlternative form of no pain, no gain.
- time-gain compensationA setting applied in diagnostic ultrasound imaging to account for tissue attenuation, in which the received signal intensity with depth is increased.
- gain twistSynonym of gaining twist: In rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle.
- gain tractionSynonym of gain ground: To make progress or obtain advantage; to gain traction.
Compound words 77
- gainerOne who gains a profit or advantage.
- gainfulContrary.
- gainsayTo say something in contradiction to.
- gainsharingA compensation system in which companies share the financial value of performance gains, such as productivity, cost savings, or quality, with their workers.
- gainstandTo stand against; resist, oppose; withstand.
- gainstayTo stand against or in opposition to; resist; oppose.
- gainsomeMarked by gain; gainful; profitable.
- gainsideThe side on which gain, increase, or prosperity is accrued; the upside.
- overgainTo gain too much.
- gainlySuitably; fitly; conveniently; readily.