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Gathering   /gˈæðərɪŋ/   Listen
Gathering

noun
1.
A group of persons together in one place.  Synonym: assemblage.
2.
The social act of assembling.  Synonyms: assemblage, assembly.  Antonym: disassembly.
3.
The act of gathering something.  Synonym: gather.
4.
Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching.  Synonym: gather.


Gather

verb
(past & past part. gathered; pres. part. gathering)
1.
Assemble or get together.  Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together.  "Pull your thoughts together"  Antonym: spread.
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"



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"Gathering" Quotes from Famous Books



... vanished hopes, the calm but sorrowful acceptance of an end far different from his dreams. By degrees the dusk of heaven began to dawn in them, though gazing still upon the point in space. At the same moment the wide waters round the rock and the vast gathering twilight ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... desolate during the hot season, would shortly be covered with a delicate grass about eighteen inches high. At that favoured spot the rains fell with less violence, and it formed a nucleus for the general gathering of ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker
... secretaries, bottlewashers and other numerous hangers-on of conferences. Kings and rulers would probably have attended the Conference in person, not being willing to afford the luxury of allowing a Prime Minister to neglect home affairs. It would have been a pretty gathering, Constantine Porphyrogenitus the bookworm probably as president, AEthelstan of England, Charles the Simple of France or as much as his neighbours allowed him, that doughty poacher Henry the Fowler, German King, and Pope Leo not ...
— From a Terrace in Prague • Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
... a slight smile gathering around his usually stern mouth. "Will that lad be of your ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... considered frail human nature, and accepted of poor Tam's confession of a fault, and allowed the bairn to be baptized without any more ado. I think honest Mr. Daff has acted like himself, and I trust and hope there will be a great gathering at the christening, and, that my mite may not be wanting, you will slip in a guinea note when the dish goes round, but in such a manner, that it may not be jealoused from ...
— The Ayrshire Legatees • John Galt


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