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gainer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gainer has 3 senses
- gainer(n = noun.person) weight gainer - a person who gains weight; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- gainer(n = noun.person) Array - a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits); "she was clearly the gainer in that exchange" is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- gainer(n = noun.act) full gainer - 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; Array is a kind of dive, diving
Derived form verb gain9
Derived forms verb gain5, verb gain2, verb gain8, verb gain3
THESAURUS
gainer
belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, cannonball, crash dive, dive, drop, fall, header, jackknife, nose dive, parachute jump, pitch, plunge, pounce, power dive, running dive, sky dive, stationary dive, stoop, swan dive, swoop
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