# regain
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (verb) IPA: /ɹiːˈɡeɪn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Rhymes: -eɪn
* (noun) IPA: /ˈɹiːɡeɪn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: re‧gain

### Verb

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

#### Derived terms

* regain one's senses

#### Translations
### Noun

regain (plural regains)
* 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.
* (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

* gainer, Gearin, anigre, Regina, regian, Angier, Reagin, Arenig, inrage, raigne, regina, Negari, earing, reagin, Gainer, graine, Aigner, in gear

## French
### Etymology

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

### Noun

regain m (uncountable)
* second crop (typically of grass)
* renewal
* upsurge

### Further reading

* “regain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.