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Gathering
| Gathering Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Gathering?
[n] the act of gathering something
[n] the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly"
[n] sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
[n] a group of persons together in one place
Synonyms | Synonyms for Gathering: assemblage |
assemblage |
assembly |
gather |
gather
Related Terms | Find terms related to Gathering: abscess |
accumulation |
acervation |
affair |
agglomerate |
agglomeration |
agglutination |
aggregate |
aggregation |
amassment |
aposteme |
apotheosis |
article |
articulation |
ascension |
assemblage |
assemblee |
assembling |
assembly |
assignation |
assumption |
at home |
back matter |
backing |
ball |
bed sore |
bibliopegy |
binder board |
binding |
blain |
bleb |
blister |
boil |
bond |
book |
book cloth |
book cover |
book jacket |
bookbinding |
bookcase |
bracketing |
brawl |
bringing together |
bubo |
bulla |
bunch |
bunion |
call-up |
canker |
canker sore |
canvass |
carbuncle |
case |
casemaking |
casing-in |
caucus |
census |
chancre |
chancroid |
chapter |
chilblain |
chunk |
clause |
clustering |
cold sore |
collating |
collating mark |
collection |
colligation |
collocation |
colloquium |
combination |
commission |
committee |
communication |
company |
comparison |
concatenation |
conclave |
concourse |
concurrence |
confluence |
conflux |
congeries |
conglobation |
conglomerate |
conglomeration |
congregation |
congress |
conjugation |
conjunction |
connection |
conventicle |
convention |
convergence |
convocation |
copulation |
corralling |
council |
coupling |
cover |
crew |
crop |
cropping |
crowd |
crush |
cumulation |
cutting |
dance |
data-gathering |
date |
diet |
dust cover |
dust jacket |
eisteddfod |
eschar |
fascicle |
felon |
fester |
festering |
festivity |
fete |
fever blister |
fistula |
flock |
folding |
folio |
footband |
forgathering |
forum |
front matter |
furuncle |
furunculus |
gang |
get-together |
gleaning |
glomeration |
gluing-off |
gob |
group |
gumboil |
hard binding |
harvest |
harvesting |
headband |
hemorrhoids |
hookup |
horde |
housewarming |
hunk |
ingathering |
intercommunication |
intercourse |
interlinking |
inventory |
jacket |
joinder |
joining |
jointure |
junction |
juxtaposition |
kibe |
knotting |
lesion |
levee |
liaison |
library binding |
lining |
lining-up |
linkage |
linking |
lump |
marriage |
mass |
matinee |
mechanical binding |
meet |
meeting |
merger |
merging |
mobilization |
muster |
niggerhead |
number |
nutting |
page |
pairing |
panel |
papula |
papule |
paragraph |
paronychia |
party |
parulis |
passage |
perfect binding |
petechia |
phrase |
piles |
pimple |
plastic binding |
plenum |
pock |
polyp |
press |
prom |
pustule |
quorum |
rally |
reaping |
reception |
rendezvous |
resurrection |
reunion |
rising |
rodeo |
rounding |
roundup |
rout |
ruck |
saddle stitching |
salon |
scab |
seance |
section |
sentence |
session |
sewing |
sheet |
shindig |
side sewing |
signature |
sit-in |
sitting |
slipcase |
slipcover |
smashing |
Smyth sewing |
snowball |
sociable |
social |
social affair |
social gathering |
soft binding |
soft chancre |
soiree |
sore |
spiral binding |
splice |
stamping |
stapling |
stigma |
stockpile |
sty |
suppuration |
survey |
swarm |
swelling |
symbiosis |
symposium |
synod |
tailband |
text |
the Ascension |
the Assumption |
tie |
tie-in |
tie-up |
tipping |
translation |
trimming |
tubercle |
turnout |
ulcer |
ulceration |
unification |
union |
verse |
wad |
wake |
wale |
welt |
wheal |
whelk |
whitlow |
wire stitching |
wound |
wrapper |
yoking
See Also | aggregation |
assembling |
assembly |
audience |
bevy |
body |
building |
bunch |
calling together |
camp |
carload |
cast |
cast of characters |
centralisation |
centralization |
class |
collecting |
collection |
coming together |
commune |
community |
concentration |
concourse |
congregating |
congregation |
contingent |
convening |
convention |
convocation |
convocation |
cortege |
covey |
crew |
crowd |
dramatis personae |
eightsome |
entourage |
fair |
fivesome |
floor |
form |
foursome |
gang |
grade |
group action |
harvest |
harvest home |
harvesting |
mass meeting |
meeting |
meeting |
mobilisation |
mobilization |
multitude |
municipality |
muster |
octet |
octette |
pair |
quartet |
quartette |
quintet |
quintette |
quorum |
rally |
rap group |
rave-up |
retinue |
room |
septet |
septette |
sevensome |
sewing |
sextet |
sextette |
sixsome |
social affair |
social gathering |
social group |
stitchery |
suite |
table |
threesome |
throng |
triad |
trinity |
trio |
turnout |
wine tasing |
year
Gathering In Webster's Dictionary
\Gath"er*ing\, n.
1. The act of collecting or bringing together.
2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together;
as:
(a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
(b) A charitable contribution; a collection.
(c) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
\Gath"er*ing\, a.
Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
{Gathering board} (Bookbinding), a table or board on which
signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.
--Knight.
{Gathering coal}, a lighted coal left smothered in embers
over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the
morning.
{Gathering hoop}, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the
ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped
over them.
{Gathering peat}.
(a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a
fire.
(b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the
Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by
the Highlanders.
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