Meaning of ungained | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not gained.
   not-comparable
2. That one has not acquired possession of.
   not-comparable
3. Not reached.
   not-comparable
4. Unaccomplished; not achieved.
   not-comparable
5. Not won over.
   not-comparable
6. Not increased.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Men prize the thing ungained more than it is;”

“The streams run⟳ on, in bold, malicious haste, His lip can touch⟳ the fruit, but cannot taste⟳; In vain he struggles from his chain to burst⟳ The stream, the fruit's ungained—unquenched his thirst!”

“To refer⟳ to something ungained seems impossible in an ordinary way, but we can simulate the time evolution by the method called "generate-and-search".”

“ungained advantage”

“ungained heights”

“He fancied four of his children stood there, hand in hand, and stared at him rather mournfully; and that Dorothy was that statue with the fingers of its right hand on the top bar of the tapestry-seated chair which was in fact the commode Titball had provided. A commode as yet ungained.”

“What ought to be gained by industry and economy or left ungained is often secured by fraud in some form⟳ among the class spoken of as enterprising and substantial citizens,”

“It is always greater, and the difference is the ungained work⟳ and the “lost work⟳,” which has not yet been discussed.”

“ungained goals”

“There was another person, however, still ungained ; and that was no other than her footman, whose secrecy our hero attempted to secure in the morning by an handsome present⟳, which he received with many professions of gratitude and devotion to his service; yet this complaisance was nothing but a cloak used to disguise the design⟳ he arboured of making his master acquainted with the whole transaction.”

“How many brethren alienated for all time, who might have⟳ been won back to God and to us, because we have⟳ hammered at the conscience merely, with the heart ungained — with the heart, I may say⟳, almost unsought!”

“ungained hearts and minds”

“Note⟳ that the signal shot noise is taken as the square root of the ungained signal times the MCP gain⟳.”

“ungained weight”

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