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n. (plural of gain English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: gain)

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The naval superiority of the United States was reestablished, and the Japanese, while trying to consolidate their gains in the East Indies, had nothing to spare for incursions into the Indian Ocean.

Rhodes was denied to us, our gains throughout the Aegean became precarious.

All the gains Hitler had acquired so swiftly from the Soviets three years before had vanished with staggering losses of men and equipment.

I think we should do everything in our power to persuade the Poles to agree with the Russians about their eastern frontier, in return for gains in East Prussia and Silesia.

The battle draws everything into itself, and there are moments when gains of priceless value in other quarters can be gathered cheaply or perhaps for nothing.

Further, he gains right feeling or an emotional warmth toward that which his intelligence affirms to be worthy, or grows to appreciate the right.

It has been seen further, that the child gains control of new experience whenever he goes through a process of learning involving the four steps of problem, selecting activity, relating activity, and expression.

Here also the child gains valuable experience quite spontaneously, that is, without its constituting a motive, or problem, calling for adjustment.

By directing his muscular movements in art and constructive work, he gains the control which will in part enable him to check the impulse to strike the angry blow.

In like manner, when a student gains from a verbal description a knowledge of a plant or an animal, not only does he find it much more difficult to apply his old knowledge in interpreting the word description than he would in interpreting a concrete example, but his knowledge of the plant or animal is likely to be imperfect.

If he gains the true notion from the first example, he merely verifies this through the other particular examples.

In the subject of grammar, for instance, a first lesson on the pronoun may be viewed as a conceptual lesson, since the child gains an idea of a class of words, as indicated by the new general term pronoun, this term representing the result of a conceptual process.

It is by spontaneous imitation that the child gains so much knowledge of the world about him, and so much power over the movements of his own body.

In the case of the young child, as he gains a mental image of his father, the experience evidently serves as a centre for interpreting other similar individuals.

When, for example, the pupil gains general notions representative of the classes, proper noun and common noun, the new terms merely add something to the intension of the more extensive term noun.