'To gain on' definitions:
Definition of 'To gain on'
From: GCIDE
- Gain \Gain\, v. i. To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily. [1913 Webster]
- Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. --Ezek. xxii. 12. [1913 Webster]
- Gaining twist, in rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle.
- To gain on or To gain upon. (a) To encroach on; as, the ocean gains on the land. (b) To obtain influence with. (c) To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or contest. (d) To get the better of; to have the advantage of. [1913 Webster]
- The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To gain on'
- Gain,
- Gained,
- Gaines,
- Gainful,
- Gainfully,
- Gainfulness,
- Gaining,
- Gainly,
- To gain over,
- gains,
- Fort Gaines,
- Gain twist,
- Gained day,
- Gaines County,
- Gaines, MI,
- Gaines, TX,
- Gaining twist,
- To gain a point,
- To gain ground,
- To gain the wind,
- To gain upon,
- capital gain,
- financial gain,
- gain ground,
- gain the day,
- gain upon,
- gain vigor,
- gaining control,
- loop gain,
- weight gaining,
- Fort Gaines, GA,
- Gaines County, TX,
- capital gains tax