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regain

verb
/ɹiːˈɡeɪn/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from regaigner

Definitions

  1. To get back

    To get back; to recover possession of.

    • 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.

  2. The act or process of regaining something.

    • 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.
    • The samples with SAPs showed a regain in strength when stored in an RH of more than 90%.

  3. The amount of width a woven cloth grows by when the fibers swell, used to determine the…

    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.

    • In particular, at high humidities the regain of wool is lower.
    • Because of the fiber price per pound, and the size of the lots, the regain must be determined accurately.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at regain. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at regain. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at regain

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA