Garner vs Gain - What's the difference?
garner | gain |
A granary; a store of grain.
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An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
* 1835 ,
* 1913 , in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
* 1956 ,
(often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.
* 1983 ,
* 1999 ,
(rare) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
* 1849 ,
(obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
(obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
(dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
(dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
(obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
(dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
(dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
The act of gaining.
* Tennyson
What one gains, as a return on investment or dividend.
* Shakespeare
(electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
To acquire possession of what one did not have before.
* Bible, Matthew xvi. 26
* Alexander Pope
To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 12
(dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
To increase.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
To reach.
* 1907 , Jack London, The Iron Heel :
To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
* Bible, Matthew xviii. 15
* Dryden
To put on weight.
(of a clock or watch) To run fast.
(architecture) A square or bevelled 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.
As nouns the difference between garner and gain
is that garner is a granary; a store of grain while gain is the act of gaining.As verbs the difference between garner and gain
is that garner is to reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary while gain is to acquire possession of what one did not have before.As a proper noun Garner
is {{surname|lang=en}.As a preposition gain is
against.As an adjective gain is
straight, direct; near; short.As an adverb gain is
straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.garner
English
Noun
(en noun)- That'' our garners ''may be'' full, affording all manner of store: ''that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
- Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner ; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Verb
(en verb)- I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.
- He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
- ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
- He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
- Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
- His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
- This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
- President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...
- For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;
Usage notes
The "earn, acquire, accumulate" sense should be read as a figurative extension of the original "harvest, gather" sense, sometimes with some inanimate achievement or choice metaphorically doing the "gathering", as "The new book garnered high praise''", or with an indirect object, as, "''The new book garnered the author high praise''". In this sense, the achievement, choice, or fact is actively gathering something, positive or negative, for its creator, even if that choice is inaction, as in "''Failure to try can garner you the disapproval of the industrious ".Quotations
* (English Citations of "garner")Anagrams
* ----gain
English
Etymology 1
From dialectal English (m), (m), short for (m), . More at (l).Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), , from the adjective.Adjective
(en adjective)- the gainest way
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Adverb
(en adverb)- gain quiet (= fairly/pretty quiet)
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), . The Middle English word was reinforced by (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- the lust of gain
- No pain, no gain .
- Everyone shall share in the gains .
Antonyms
* lossDerived terms
* autogain * gainful * gainsomeVerb
(en verb)- Looks like you've gained a new friend.
- What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
- For fame with toil we gain , but lose with ease.
- The sick man gains daily.
- Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion.
- to gain''' a battle; to '''gain a case at law
- Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
- I'm gaining (on you).
- gain ground
- to gain the top of a mountain
- Ernest laughed harshly and savagely when he had gained the street.
- If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
- to gratify the queen, and gain the court
- I've been gaining .