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Definitions for Gather

[1] to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
[2] to bring together or assemble from various places, sources, or people; collect gradually: The college is gathering a faculty from all over the country.
[3] to serve as a center of attention for; attract: A good football game always gathers a crowd.
[4] to pick or harvest (any crop or natural yield) from its place of growth or formation: to gather fruit; to gather flowers.
[5] to pick up piece by piece: Gather your toys from the floor.
[6] to pick or scoop up: She gathered the crying child in her arms.
[7] to collect (as taxes, dues, money owed, etc.).
[8] to accumulate; increase: The storm gathers force. The car gathered speed.
[9] to take by selection from among other things; sort out; cull.
[10] to assemble or collect (one's energies or oneself) as for an effort (often followed by up ): He gathered up his strength for the hard job.
[11] to learn or conclude from observation; infer; deduce: I gather that he is the real leader.
[12] to wrap or draw around or close: He gathered his scarf around his neck.
[13] to contract (the brow) into wrinkles.
[14] to draw (cloth) up on a thread in fine folds or puckers by means of even stitches.
[15] Bookbinding . to assemble (the printed sections of a book) in proper sequence for binding.
[16] Nautical . to gain (way) from a dead stop or extremely slow speed.
[17] Metalworking . to increase the sectional area of (stock) by any of various operations.
[18] Glassmaking . to accumulate or collect (molten glass) at the end of a tube for blowing, shaping, etc.
[19] to come together around a central point; assemble: Let's gather round the fire and sing.
[20] to collect or accumulate: Clouds were gathering in the northeast.
[21] to grow, as by accretion; increase.
[22] to become contracted into wrinkles, folds, creases, etc., as the brow or as cloth.
[23] to come to a head, as a sore in suppurating.
[24] a drawing together; contraction.
[25] Often gathers. a fold or pucker, as in gathered cloth.
[26] an act or instance of gathering.
[27] an amount or number gathered, as during a harvest.
[28] Glassmaking . a mass of molten glass attached to the end of a punty.
[29] be gathered to one's fathers , to die.
[30] to assemble or cause to assemble
[31] to collect or be collected gradually; muster
[32] (tr) to learn from information given; conclude or assume
[33] (tr) to pick or harvest (flowers, fruit, etc)
[34] (tr; foll by to or into) to clasp or embrace the mother gathered the child into her arms
[35] (tr) to bring close (to) or wrap (around) she gathered her shawl about her shoulders
[36] to increase or cause to increase gradually, as in force, speed, intensity, etc
[37] to contract (the brow) or (of the brow) to become contracted into wrinkles; knit
[38] (tr) to assemble (sections of a book) in the correct sequence for binding
[39] (tr) to collect by making a selection
[40] (tr) to prepare or make ready to gather one's wits
[41] to draw (material) into a series of small tucks or folds by passing a thread through it and then pulling it tight
[42] (intr) (of a boil or other sore) to come to a head; form pus
[43] the act of gathering the amount gathered
[44] a small fold in material, as made by a tightly pulled stitch; tuck
[45] printing an informal name for section (def. 17)

Words related to Gather

huddle, crowd, cluster, pick, draw, converge, collect, congregate, choose, convene, assemble, meet, flock, conclude, make, hear, expect, learn, find, take

Words nearby Gather

gateshead, gateway, gateway drug, gath, gatha, gather, gather ye rosebuds while ye may, gathering, gathic, gatineau, gating

Origin of Gather

before 900; Middle English gaderen, Old English gaderian, derivative of geador together, akin to gæd fellowship; cf. together, good

Other words from Gather

gath·er·a·ble , adjective
gath·er·er , noun
pre·gath·er , verb (used without object)
re·gath·er , verb
un·gath·ered , adjective
well-gath·ered , adjective

Word origin for Gather

Old English gadrian; related to Old Frisian gaderia, Middle Low German gaderen

Synonyms for Gather

assemble, choose, cluster, collect, congregate, convene, converge, crowd, draw, flock, huddle, meet, pick, round up, show up, accumulate, aggregate, amass, associate, capture, concentrate, corral, cull, forgather, garner, group, heap, herd, hoard, marshal, mass, muster, pluck, poke, punch, rally, reunite, stockpile, swarm, throng, unite, bunch up, close with, draw in, gang up, get together, hang around, hang out, make the scene, pile up, pour in, scare up, scrape together, stack up