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Gather   /gˈæðər/   Listen
Gather

verb
(past & past part. gathered; pres. part. gathering)
1.
Assemble or get together.  Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together.  "Pull your thoughts together"
2.
Collect in one place.  Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet.  "Let's gather in the dining room"
3.
Collect or gather.  Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up.  "The work keeps piling up"
4.
Conclude from evidence.
5.
Draw together into folds or puckers.  Synonyms: pucker, tuck.
6.
Get people together.  Synonyms: assemble, get together.  "Get together all those who are interested in the project" , "Gather the close family members"
7.
Draw and bring closer.
8.
Look for (food) in nature.
9.
Increase or develop.  Synonym: gain.  "The car gathers speed"
noun
1.
Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching.  Synonym: gathering.
2.
The act of gathering something.  Synonym: gathering.



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"Gather" Quotes from Famous Books



... Phil to renewed activity. Grabbing all the stones he could gather in one sweep of his hands he started on a run toward Red Larry, letting one drive with every jump. They showered around the desperate man like a rain ...
— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... was relaxed on his promise of recantation. Cobham however had now resolved on open resistance. He broke from the Tower in November, and from his hiding-place organized a vast revolt. At the opening of 1414 a secret order summoned the Lollards to assemble in St. Giles's Fields outside London. We gather, if not the real aims of the rising, at least the terror it caused, from Henry's statement that its purpose was "to destroy himself, his brothers, and several of the spiritual and temporal lords"; from Cobham's later declarations it is probable that the pretext of ...
— History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) - The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 • John Richard Green
... is precisely what makes me tremble; the women have plotted my ruin, and to-day they are to gather in the Temple of ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al
... its energies shall deal, When wild-storms gather round thy country's sun; Her glowing youth shall grasp the gleamy steel, Rank'd round the glorious wreaths which ...
— Poetic Sketches • Thomas Gent
... with such people," he said suddenly. "I wish you didn't go there. It's all very well for a woman like your aunt to gather about her all the disreputable men and women who claim to be of some account, but they are not fit companions for you. I don't ...
— The Emancipated • George Gissing


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