Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To collect from different places; assemble.
- intransitive verb To cause to come together; convene.
- intransitive verb To draw (something or someone) closer to oneself.
- intransitive verb To draw into small folds or puckers, as by pulling a thread through cloth.
- intransitive verb To contract and wrinkle (the brow).
- intransitive verb To harvest or pick.
- intransitive verb To conclude or infer, as from evidence.
- intransitive verb To summon up; muster.
- intransitive verb To accumulate (something) gradually; amass.
- intransitive verb To attract or be the center of attraction for.
- intransitive verb To gain by a process of gradual increase.
- intransitive verb To pick up or collect (molten glass) using a tool in glass blowing.
- intransitive verb To come together in a group; assemble.
- intransitive verb To accumulate.
- intransitive verb To grow or increase by degrees.
- intransitive verb To come to a head, as a boil; fester.
- intransitive verb To forage for wild foodstuffs.
- noun The act or an instance of gathering.
- noun Something gathered, especially.
- noun A small fold or pucker made by gathering cloth.
- noun A mass of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe or other glass-blowing tool.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mech., to fit into; fit together: used in speaking of the teeth of gears.
- Nautical, to overtake another vessel: a vessel is said to gather on another when it is overtaking it.
- noun A plait or fold in cloth held in position by a thread drawn through it.
- noun A slight forward inclination of the axle-spindle of a carriage, to insure the even running of the wheel.
- To bring or draw together; assemble; congregate; collect; make a collection or aggregation of.
- To take by selection from among other things; sort out or separate, as what is desired or valuable; cull; pick; pluck.
- To bring closer together the component parts of; draw into smaller compass, as a garment; hence, to make folds in, as the brow by contracting it.
- Hence In sewing, to full or shirr (a piece of cloth) by running a thread through it and then drawing it in small puckers by means of the thread.
- In building, to contract or close in, as a drain or chimney.
- To acquire or gain, with or without effort; accumulate; win.
- To accumulate by saving and bringing together; amass.
- To collect or learn by observation or reasoning; infer; conclude.
- To bring into order; arrange; settle.
- In glass manufacturing, to collect from the pot (a mass of molten glass) on the end of an iron tube, preparatory to blowing. This operation is performed by a workman called a gatherer. See
gatherer , 6. - To reap, cull, crop.
- To hoard, heap up.
- To collect; congregate; come together: as, the clouds gather in the west.
- To increase; grow larger by accretion.
- To come to a head, as a sore in suppurating.
- Synonyms To come together, muster, cluster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- noun (Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- noun (Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in
gathering . SeeGather , v. t., 7. - intransitive verb To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
- intransitive verb To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
- intransitive verb To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus.
- intransitive verb To collect or bring things together.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Natalie’s eyes skipped to the next blanks, where she was instructed to look through Exodus 16 and list every verse in which the word gather appeared.
Mending Places Denise Hunter 2004
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Tomorrow, governments will again gather for another of their crucial environmental summits.
Britain is growing greener at the expense of the rest of the world Tony Juniper 2010
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I gather from the pithy response above to PLR — “Yes, that is correct” — that Prof. Kerr beleives Greenwald is wholly wrong on the outcome based on the facts and the law.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Al-Haramain Says, And What It Doesn’t Say 2010
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I gather from the pithy response above to PLR — “Yes, that is correct” — that Prof. Kerr beleives Greenwald is wholly wrong on the outcome based on the facts and the law.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Al-Haramain Says, And What It Doesn’t Say 2010
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By picking Kagan contra Wood, whom I gather is a fierce liberal and would have been branded as such in the confirmations, Obama takes the liberalism card out of play and minimizes the Novemberpolitical storms.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination 2010
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I think we can gather from the sudden retirements of a number of Democrats THEY feel their time in power is coming to an end.
Health care rationing bill gets nuked from orbit. | RedState 2010
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According to what he could gather from the conversations, this officer had been paying off the military and they had been simply waving him through each day.
Mordidas 2009
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You might be able to gather from the document that there was a lot of intermarriage between the different Apaches.
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According to what he could gather from the conversations, this officer had been paying off the military and they had been simply waving him through each day.
Mordidas 2009
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You might be able to gather from the document that there was a lot of intermarriage between the different Apaches.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
moore4th commented on the word gather
I will collect the sticks later.
February 15, 2007
moore4th commented on the word gather
he will gather berries
February 15, 2007
reesetee commented on the word gather
In glassmaking, a mass of molten glass (sometimes called a gob) collected on the end of a blowpipe, pontil, or gathering iron; also a verb to describe collecting molten glass on the end of a tool.
November 9, 2007