gainer

From gain +‎ -er. Compare German Gegner (“opponent, adversary”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪnə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪnɚ/

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gainer (plural gainers)

1. 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.

2. One who puts on weight.
3. (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.

• back gainer sports
• full gainer sports
• gain
• half gainer sports
• reverse gainer sports

• OED2

• Aigner, Gearin, Reagin, Regina, anigre, earing, in gear, inrage, raigne, reagin, regain, regian, regina

From gaine.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛ.ne/, /ɡe.ne/

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gainer

1. to cover, sheathe

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• “gainer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• graine, grainé, ignare, ingéra, régnai