Word Meanings - GAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GAIN)

• Acquire
• Gain
• earn
• procure
• obtain
• get
• realize
• win
• reap
• Advantage
• success
• superiority
• help
• assistance
• benefit
• good
• avail
• interest
• utility
• service
• profit
• acquisition
• Attain
• Reach
• extend
• master
• arrive at
• compass
• achieve
• accomplish
• acquire
• gain
• secure
• grasp
• Bargain
• Transaction
• negotiation
• business
• speculation
• higgling
• hawking
• chaffer
• haggling
• Conciliate
• Win
• enlist
• pacify
• make friendly
• reconcile
• propitiate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GAIN)

• Fail
• fall
• disappoint
• betray
• Expand
• disband
• unfold
• amplify
• display
• dismiss
• liberate
• discard
• fail
• bungle
• botch
• misconceive
• mismanage
• misconstrue
• Loosen
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• free

Related words: (words related to GAIN)

• HAWKED
  Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• HAWKER
  One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
• HAGGLE
  To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay
• ATTAIN
  atteindre, fr. L. attingere; ad + tangere to touch, reach. See 1. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means Abp. Tillotson. 3. To get
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• SUCCESS
  1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• ACCOMPLISHED
  1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.