Succeed vs Gain - What's the difference?
succeed | gain |
To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
(obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* 1919 ,
To support; to prosper; to promote.
* Dryden
To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.
# To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
To go under cover.
(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 verbs the difference between succeed and gain
is that succeed is to follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of while gain is to acquire possession of what one did not have before.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.As a noun gain is
the act of gaining.succeed
English
Alternative forms
* succede (dated)Verb
(en verb)- The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.
- Autumn succeeds summer.
- So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king.
- Destructive effects succeeded the curse.
- Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.
- Succeed my wish and second my design.
Antonyms
* (follow in order) precede * fail, fall on one's faceDerived terms
* nothing succeeds like success * succedent * succeedinglygain
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 .