GAINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gainer mean? 

• GAINER (noun)
  The noun GAINER has 3 senses:

1. a person who gains weight

2. a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits)

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

  Familiarity information: GAINER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who gains weight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gainer; weight gainer

Hypernyms ("gainer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

gain (increase (one's body weight))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

she was clearly the gainer in that exchange

Hypernyms ("gainer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

gain (obtain advantages, such as points, etc.)

gain (win something through one's efforts)

gain (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)

gain (derive a benefit from)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

full gainer; gainer

Hypernyms ("gainer" is a kind of...):

dive; diving (a headlong plunge into water)

 Context examples 

The community is certainly the gainer, and no one the loser, save the poor out-of-work specialist, whose occupation has gone.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The chances are that she must be a gainer.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This was against her; but on the other hand, he spent so much of his time at Uppercross, that in removing thence she might be considered rather as leaving him behind, than as going towards him; and, upon the whole, she believed she must, on this interesting question, be the gainer, almost as certainly as in her change of domestic society, in leaving poor Mary for Lady Russell.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A friendship between two so very dear to him was exactly what he could have wished: and to the credit of the lover's understanding, be it stated, that he did not by any means consider Fanny as the only, or even as the greater gainer by such a friendship.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small estate of Birchmoor, 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.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)