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Gather   /gˈæðər/   Listen
Gather

verb
(past & past part. gathered; pres. part. gathering)
1.
Assemble or get together.  Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together.  "Pull your thoughts together"
2.
Collect in one place.  Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet.  "Let's gather in the dining room"
3.
Collect or gather.  Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up.  "The work keeps piling up"
4.
Conclude from evidence.
5.
Draw together into folds or puckers.  Synonyms: pucker, tuck.
6.
Get people together.  Synonyms: assemble, get together.  "Get together all those who are interested in the project" , "Gather the close family members"
7.
Draw and bring closer.
8.
Look for (food) in nature.
9.
Increase or develop.  Synonym: gain.  "The car gathers speed"
noun
1.
Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching.  Synonym: gathering.
2.
The act of gathering something.  Synonym: gathering.



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"Gather" Quotes from Famous Books



... frequently well-bedded; they are less persistent and tend to occur locally, but may attain a very great thickness. Showers of fine ash may be distributed over a wide area of country and will form thin layers of great extent. Coarser accumulations gather only near the actual foci of eruption (craters, fissures, &c.). When the activity of a volcanic vent comes to an end, the orifice is often choked by masses of debris, which will in time become compacted into firm agglomerates. Hence rocks of ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... they despatched them to their several destinations. It particular those who had enjoyed the society of Hermocrates recalled his virtues with regret, his thoroughness and enthusiasm, his frankness and affability, the care with which every morning and evening he was wont to gather in his quarters a group of naval captains and mariners whose ability he recognised. These were his confidants, to whom he communicated what he intended to say or do: they were his pupils, to whom he gave lessons in oratory, now calling upon them to speak ...
— Hellenica • Xenophon

... Sandy's money, and lost. He staked the rest, and determined to win, because he could not afford to lose. He had just reached out his hand to gather in the stakes, when he was charged with cheating at cards, of which two members, who had quietly entered the room and posted themselves behind the screen, had secured specific proof. A meeting of the membership committee was hastily summoned, it ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt

... gather there," said the sergeant, after a brief pause, "for the same Almighty Saviour who saved me died for you as well. I ain't used to wettin' my cheeks, as you know, lads, but I s'pose my wound has weakened me a bit! Now Sutherland, the favour I have ...
— Blue Lights - Hot Work in the Soudan • R.M. Ballantyne

... She seemed to gather herself together; she swept round the table; came close to the woman in the armchair; bent to her; the dark burning eyes fixed the faded blue ones. "Tell me quick, I say,—I can bear ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller


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