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What's The Definition Of Gather?
[n] the act of gathering something
[n] sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [v] collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [v] believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" [v] conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework" [v] look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall" [v] draw fabric together and sew it tightly [v] assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [v] move together [v] collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [v] get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members" Synonyms | Synonyms for Gather: accumulate | amass | assemble | collect | collect | conglomerate | congregate | cumulate | foregather | forgather | garner | gathering | gathering | get together | infer | meet | pile up | pucker | pull together | tuck | understand Related Terms | Find terms related to Gather: accouple | accumulate | affiliate | agglomerate | agglutinate | aggregate | aggroup | ally | amass | approach | articulate | assemble | associate | assume | 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rally | reap | reason | reason out | round up | run up | salvage | scavenge | search | seek | sew | sew together | sewing | shell | shock | snail | sponge | stack up | stitch | stitchery | summon Gather In Webster's Dictionary \Gath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gathered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Gathering}.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr.
gador, geador, together, fr. g[ae]d fellowship; akin to E.
good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate,
also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. [root]29. 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 more? Gather the sequel by that went
before. --Shak.
6. To gain; to win. [Obs.]
He gathers ground upon her in the chase. --Dryden.
7. (Arch.) 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.) 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) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. 3. (Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See {Gather}, v. t., 7. |
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