regain

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English

Etymology

From Middle French regaigner (French regagner). By surface analysis, re- +‎ gain.

Pronunciation

  • (verb) IPA(key): /ɹiːˈɡeɪn/
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  • (noun) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːɡeɪn/
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  • Hyphenation: re‧gain

Verb

regain (third-person singular simple present regains, present participle regaining, simple past and past participle regained)

  1. (transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.
    • 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian:
      Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.

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Noun

regain (plural regains)

  1. The act or process of regaining something.
    • 2019, Sameera Khan, Regain Be Gone:
      Patients who plateau after weight loss are more likely to blame the regain on something that they are responsible for – the wrong course of action they took or a specic oversight that they kept repeating–rather than who they are.
    • 2021, Sam Hudson, Football in a Pandemic:
      By beginning deeper, this allows the opposition to start and build much higher, naturally luring them away from their own goal. As long as the actions after a regain are then quick, forward, and performed with quality, counter-attacks can prove a particularly useful attacking strategy to win football matches.
    • 2021, Sandra Van Vlierberghe, Arn Mignon, Superabsorbent Polymers, page 155:
      The samples with SAPs showed a regain in strength when stored in an RH of more than 90%.
    • 2022, Antonella Versaci, Hocine Bougdah, Natsuko Akagawa, Conservation of Architectural Heritage, page 375:
      Negative collective memories are effective, as much as positive memories, in choosing a regain for lost heritage building associated with them.
  2. (textiles) The amount of width a woven cloth grows by when the fibers swell, used to determine the width of the reed to use in weaving.
    • 1912, National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, page 105:
      The number of ends per inch may vary to some slight extent at different places in the width of the cloth and in different pieces woven to the same particulars , but if the regain is correctly estimated , the calculated reed to be used will be the same, unless a special reed has been used in weaving the cloth.
    • 2008, J. W. S. Hearle, W E Morton, Physical Properties of Textile Fibres, page 190:
      In particular, at high humidities the regain of wool is lower.
    • 2017, Sabit Adanur, Wellington Sears Handbook of Industrial Textiles, page 590:
      Because of the fiber price per pound, and the size of the lots, the regain must be determined accurately.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French regain. By surface analysis, re- +‎ gaaignier (to till).

Noun

regain m (uncountable)

  1. second crop (typically of grass)
  2. renewal
  3. upsurge

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