gather, gathering
(noun) the act of gathering something
gather, gathering
(noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
gain, gather
(verb) increase or develop; âthe peace movement gained momentumâ; âthe car gathers speedâ
accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass
(verb) collect or gather; âJournals are accumulating in my officeâ; âThe work keeps piling upâ
gather
(verb) conclude from evidence; âI gather you have not done your homeworkâ
gather
(verb) look for (food) in nature; âOur ancestors gathered nuts in the Fallâ
gather, pucker, tuck
(verb) draw together into folds or puckers
gather
(verb) draw and bring closer; âshe gathered her shawl around her shouldersâ
gather, garner, collect, pull together
(verb) assemble or get together; âgather some stonesâ; âpull your thoughts togetherâ
meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
(verb) collect in one place; âWe assembled in the church basementâ; âLetâs gather in the dining roomâ
assemble, gather, get together
(verb) get people together; âassemble your colleaguesâ; âget together all those who are interested in the projectâ; âgather the close family membersâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gather (third-person singular simple present gathers, present participle gathering, simple past and past participle gathered)
To collect; normally separate things.
Especially, to harvest food.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
(intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
(intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
(sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
(architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
(nautical) To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To gain; to win.
• (to bring together): aggroup, togetherize; see also round up
gather (plural gathers)
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
(glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
A gathering.
• Gareth, rageth
Source: Wiktionary
Gath"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] Etym: [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. gĂŠd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. sq. root29. See Good, and cf. Together.]
1. To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate. And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry. Byron. When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. Matt. ii. 4.
2. To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck. A rose just gathered from the stalk. Dryden. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles Matt. vii. 16. Gather us from among the heathen. Ps. cvi. 47.
3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. Prov. xxviii. 8. To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. Locke.
4. To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. Pope.
5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. Let me say no moreGather the sequel by that went before. Shak.
6. To gain; to win. [Obs.] He gathers ground upon her in the chase. Dryden.
7. (Arch.)
Definition: To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
8. (Naut.)
Definition: To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope. To be gathered to one's people, or to one's fathers to die. Gen. xxv. 8.
– To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get breath; to rest. Spenser.
– To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
– To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.
Gath"er, v. i.
1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. When small humors gather to a gout. Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson.
2. To grow larger by accretion; to increase. Their snowball did not gather as it went. Bacon.
3. To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
4. To collect or bring things together. Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed. Matt. xxv. 26.
Gath"er, n.
1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
2. (Carriage Making)
Definition: The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
3. (Arch.)
Definition: The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red â indicating ripeness â they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
