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Gather   /gˈæðər/   Listen
verb
Gather  v. t.  (past & past part. gathered; pres. part. gathering)  
1.
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. "And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry." "When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together."
2.
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. "A rose just gathered from the stalk." "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" "Gather us from among the heathen."
3.
To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. "He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor." "To pay the creditor... he must gather up money by degrees."
4.
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. "Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand."
5.
To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. "Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before."
6.
To gain; to win. (Obs.) "He gathers ground upon her in the chase."
7.
(Arch.) 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.
8.
(Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
To be gathered to one's people or To be gathered to one's fathers to die.
To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest.
To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.


Gather  v. i.  
1.
To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. "When small humors gather to a gout." "Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes."
2.
To grow larger by accretion; to increase. "Their snowball did not gather as it went."
3.
To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
4.
To collect or bring things together. "Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed."


noun
Gather  n.  
1.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
2.
(Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
3.
(Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.





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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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