Adjective
Not gained. That one has not acquired possession of.
Usage- not-comparable
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Men prize the thing ungained more than it is;
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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".
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ungained advantage
Not gained. Not reached.
Usage- not-comparable
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ungained heights
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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.
Not gained. Unaccomplished; not achieved.
Usage- not-comparable
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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
Not gained. Not won over.
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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
Not gained. Not increased.
Usage- not-comparable
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Note that the signal shot noise is taken as the square root of the ungained signal times the MCP gain.
ungained weight