Gather Synonyms & Definitions

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• GatherDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
2. (v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
3. (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
4. (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.
5. (n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
6. (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.
7. (v. t.) To gain; to win.
8. (v. i.) To collect or bring things together.
9. (v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
10. (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.
11. (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.
12. (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.
13. (n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
14. (v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
15. (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

• GatheringDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gather
2. (a.) Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
3. (n.) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
4. (n.) A charitable contribution; a collection.
5. (n.) That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
6. (n.) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
7. (n.) The act of collecting or bringing together.

• GathererDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) One who gathers or collects.
2. (n.) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.