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Definition gather
Etymology
From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-Germanic *gadur?n? (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ed?- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).
Verb
gather (third-person singular simple present gathers, present participle gathering, simple past and past participle gathered)
- 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.
Noun
gather (plural gathers)
- 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.
- The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- A gathering.
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