gather

IPA: gˈæðɝ

A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
(masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
(glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
A gathering.

To collect; normally separate things.
Especially, to harvest food.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
(intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
(intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
(sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
(architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
(nautical) To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To gain; to win.

Examples of "gather" in Sentences

Tomorrow, governments will again gather for another of their crucial environmental summits.
You might be able to gather from the document that there was a lot of intermarriage between the different Apaches.
I think we can gather from the sudden retirements of a number of Democrats THEY feel their time in power is coming to an end.
Natalie’s eyes skipped to the next blanks, where she was instructed to look through Exodus 16 and list every verse in which the word gather appeared.
According to what he could gather from the conversations, this officer had been paying off the military and they had been simply waving him through each day.
I gather from the pithy response above to PLR — “Yes, that is correct” — that Prof. Kerr beleives Greenwald is wholly wrong on the outcome based on the facts and the law.
By picking Kagan contra Wood, whom I gather is a fierce liberal and would have been branded as such in the confirmations, Obama takes the liberalism card out of play and minimizes the Novemberpolitical storms.