Gain vs. Pain — What's the Difference?

Obtain or secure (something wanted or desirable)

Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage." In medical diagnosis, pain is regarded as a symptom of an underlying condition.

Reach or arrive at (a destination)

Highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury

Increase the amount or rate of (something, typically weight or speed)

Great care or trouble

An increase in wealth or resources

Cause mental or physical pain to

The factor by which power or voltage is increased in an amplifier or other electronic device, usually expressed as a logarithm

An unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body

To come into possession or use of; acquire

Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings

To attain in competition or struggle; win

Mental or emotional suffering; distress.

To obtain through effort or merit; achieve

An instance of this

To secure as profit or reward; earn

Pains The pangs of childbirth.

To manage to achieve an increase of

Pains Great care or effort

To increase by (a specific amount)

(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance

To come to; reach

To cause physical pain to; hurt

To become fast by (a specified amount of time). Used of a timepiece

To cause mental or emotional distress to

To increase; grow

An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.

To become better; improve

(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

To obtain a profit or advantage; benefit

An annoying person or thing.

To move closer to a person or thing that is moving ahead; close a gap

Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

To put on weight

Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

To operate or run fast. Used of a timepiece.

Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

To cut out a gain in.

(transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

To join by or fit into a gain.

(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

Something gained or acquired

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Progress; advancement

To feel pain; to hurt.

The act of acquiring; attainment.

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

An increase in amount or degree

Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

(Electronics) An increase in signal power, voltage, or current by an amplifier, expressed as the ratio of output to input. Also called amplification.

Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

The reflectivity of a projection screen, usually expressed relative to the reflectivity of a standard surface of magnesium carbonate.

Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.

A notch or mortise cut into a board to receive another part.

See Pains, labor, effort.

(transitive) To acquire possession of.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

(intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.

To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.

To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.

(transitive) To increase.

A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;

(intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;

(transitive) To reach.

A somatic sensation of acute discomfort;

To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.

A bothersome annoying person;

(intransitive) To put on weight.

Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;

(of a clock or watch) To run fast.

Cause bodily suffering to

The act of gaining; acquisition.

Cause emotional anguish or make miserable;

The thing or things gained.

(electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.

(architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

(obsolete) Against.

(obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.

(obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.

(dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.

(dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.

(obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.

(dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.

(dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; - opposed to loss.

The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.

Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.

To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.

To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.

To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.

To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.

To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.

To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

A quantity that is added;

The advantageous quality of being beneficial

The amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input

The amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating

Obtain;

Win something through one's efforts;

Derive a benefit from;

Reach a destination, either real or abstract;

Obtain advantages, such as points, etc.;

Rise in rate or price;

Increase in;

Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages;

Increase (one's body weight);