gather
IPA: gˈæðɝ
noun
- 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.
verb
- 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.
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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.
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