gather
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
arts
business
construction
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
knitting
lifestyle
manufacturing
masonry
medicine
nautical
sciences
sewing
textiles
transport
Etymology: From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).
Inflected forms:
form: gathers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gathering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gathered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gathered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gether
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
regional
form: gathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gether
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
regional
Senses:
gloss: To collect normally separate things.
pos: verb
examples: I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
gloss: To collect normally separate things.
pos: verb
examples: We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
gloss: To collect normally separate things.
pos: verb
examples: Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
gloss: To collect normally separate things.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, […]
At the north-western most of Iran, to the south of Maku, is the Church of Qara Kelisa (meaning the Black Church) in a village of the same name. Here is reputed to be the burialplace of St. Thaddeus and every year thousands of Armenians gather there for prayer.
gloss: To collect normally separate things.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.
gloss: To bring parts of a whole closer.
pos: verb
examples: She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
gloss: To bring parts of a whole closer.
pos: verb
examples: A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
gloss: To bring parts of a whole closer.
pos: verb
examples: Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
gloss: To bring parts of a whole closer.
pos: verb
gloss: To bring parts of a whole closer.
pos: verb
examples: to gather the slack of a rope
gloss: To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
pos: verb
examples: From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
Press reports of the length of time the bridge is likely to be out of action vary greatly, but Mr. Farr gathers that a temporary structure may be ready in six months; complete reconstruction, however, will take at least two years. [It was never rebuilt or replaced, and demolished instead.]
gloss: To be filled with pus
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
gloss: To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
pos: verb
gloss: To gain; to win.
pos: verb
examples: He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
gloss: A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
pos: noun
gloss: The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
pos: noun
gloss: The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
pos: noun
gloss: A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
pos: noun
gloss: A gathering.
pos: noun
examples: "I'll tell you all about it at the Gather, win or lose."
What bothered him more, he thought as he started Washoe southward, was Spikes's animosity, the bearded man's sudden violent reaction to his arrival at the gather.
Synonyms: add up
begather
togetherize
Derived words: a closed mouth gathers no feet
begather
be gathered to one's fathers
chip and gather
chip-and-gather
forgather
gatherable
gather dust
gatherer
gathering board
gathering coal
gathering hoop
gather oneself
gather oneself together
gather one's thoughts
gather one's wits
gather pace
gather rosebuds
gather speed
gather steam
gather strength
gather up
gather way
gather wool
hunter-gather
hunter-gathering
ingather
light-gathering power
misgather
omnium-gatherum
regather
together
upgather
wool-gather
woolgather
wool-gathering
gathering iron
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: йыйыу
roman: yıyıw
lang: Bulgarian
word: събирам
roman: sǎbiram
lang: Finnish
word: kerätä
lang: Finnish
word: koota
lang: French
word: ramasser
lang: Georgian
word: მოკრება
roman: moḳreba
lang: Georgian
word: შეკრება
roman: šeḳreba
lang: Irish
word: dlúthaigh
lang: Italian
word: raccogliersi
lang: Māori
word: kukumu
lang: Māori
word: kāpui
lang: Portuguese
word: juntar
lang: Turkish
word: toplamak
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: khámshá