Definition of gathers Gathers
/gæˈðɚz/ - [gatherz] -
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Wiktionary 
- gathers (Noun)
Plural of gather.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| gather - the act of gathering something | ||
| gathering | ||
| assembling, collecting, aggregation, collection the act of gathering something together | ||
| centralisation, centralization gathering to a center | ||
| gather - sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | ||
| gathering | ||
| stitchery, sewing joining or attaching by stitches | ||
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| gather - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" | ||
| garner, collect, pull together | ||
| distribute, spread give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams" | ||
| gather up, lift up, pick up lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile" | ||
| marshal, mobilise, mobilize, summon arrange in logical order; "marshal facts or arguments" | ||
| rake gather with a rake; "rake leaves" | ||
| glean, harvest, reap remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals" | ||
| club gather into a club-like mass; "club hair" | ||
| hive gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm" | ||
| salvage, scavenge collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" | ||
| muster up, muster, summon, rally, come up call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | ||
| round up seek out and bring together; "round up some loyal followers" | ||
| cull, pluck, pick remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" | ||
| nut gather nuts | ||
| snail gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer" | ||
| bird-nest, birdnest gather birdnests; "They went birdnesting in the early morning" | ||
| nest gather nests | ||
| oyster gather oysters, dig oysters | ||
| sponge gather sponges, in the ocean | ||
| pearl gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean | ||
| clam gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean | ||
| shock subject to electrical shocks | ||
| heap up, stack up, pile up arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room" | ||
| gather - draw together into folds or puckers | ||
| pucker, tuck | ||
| sew together, stitch, sew, run up fasten by sewing; do needlework | ||
| gather - look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall" | ||
| look for, search, seek try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" | ||
| shell remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels" | ||
| gather - conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework" | ||
| reason out, reason, conclude think logically; "The children must learn to reason" | ||
| gather - draw and bring closer; "she gathered her shawl around her shoulders" | ||
| pull strain abnormally; "I pulled a muscle in my leg when I jumped up"; "The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition" | ||
| gather - collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" | ||
| meet, assemble, forgather, foregather | ||
| interact act together or towards others or with others; "He should interact more with his colleagues" | ||
| aggroup, group arrange into a group or groups; "Can you group these shapes together?" | ||
| meet contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary" | ||
| congregate come together, usually for a purpose; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve" | ||
| hive gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm" | ||
| fort up, fort station (troops) in a fort | ||
| convene meet formally; "The council convened last week" | ||
| cluster, flock, constellate, clump come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" | ||
| crowd together, crowd to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" | ||
| converge come together so as to form a single product; "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power" | ||
| turn out come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons; "How many people turned out that evening?" | ||
| caucus meet to select a candidate or promote a policy | ||
| club gather into a club-like mass; "club hair" | ||
| gather - collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" | ||
| accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, amass | ||
| increase make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" | ||
| backlog accumulate and create a backlog | ||
| accrete grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion" | ||
| drift be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow" | ||
| gather - get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members" | ||
| assemble, get together | ||
| foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" | ||
| make act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" | ||
| gather - increase or develop; "the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed" | ||
| gain | ||
| increase make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" | ||
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Wiktionary
- gather (Noun)
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. - gather (Noun)
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. - gather (Noun)
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather transitive verb. - gather (Noun)
A piece of molten glass colected on the end of a blowpipe. - gather (Verb)
To collect; normally separate things. - gather (Verb)
Especially, to harvest food. - gather (Verb)
We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane. - gather (Verb)
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. - gather (Verb)
Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs. - gather (Verb)
To congregate, or assemble. - gather (Verb)
People gathered round as he began to tell his story. - gather (Verb)
To bring parts of a whole closer. - gather (Verb)
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. - gather (Verb)
A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped. - gather (Verb)
To bring stitches closer together. - gather (Verb)
Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting. - gather (Verb)
If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline. - gather (Verb)
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. - gather (Verb)
To be filled with pus. - gather (Verb)
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- gather (v. t.)
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. - gather (v. t.)
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. - gather (v. t.)
To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. - gather (v. t.)
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. - gather (v. t.)
To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. - gather (v. t.)
To gain; to win. - gather (v. t.)
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. - gather (v. t.)
To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope. - gather (v. i.)
To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. - gather (v. i.)
To grow larger by accretion; to increase. - gather (v. i.)
To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered. - gather (v. i.)
To collect or bring things together. - gather (n.)
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. - gather (n.)
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. - gather (n.)
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To collect in one place, usually for a purpose. -
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To call or bring together. -
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To heap up; to collect or gather (e.g. work, magazines, etc.). -
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To conclude or infer from evidence.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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gath′ėr, v.t. to collect: to acquire: in sewing, to plait: to learn by inference.—v.i. to assemble or muster: to increase: to suppurate.—n. a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing the thread through (pl. that part of the dress which is gathered or drawn in).—ns. Gath′erer, one who collects: a gleaner: in glass manufacturing, a workman who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing; Gath′ering, a crowd or assembly: a tumour or collection of matter; Gath′ering-coal, -peat, a coal, peat, put into a fire at night, with the hot embers gathered about it, to keep the fire alive till morning; Gath′ering-cry, a summons to assemble for war.—Gather breath, to recover wind; Gather ground, to gain ground; Gather one's self together, to collect all one's powers, like one about to leap; Gather to a head, to ripen: to come into a state of preparation for action or effect; Gather way, to get headway by sail or steam so as to answer the helm. [A.S. gaderian, gæderian, (tó)gædere, together; cf. geador, together, gǽd, company.]
