'Gather' definitions:
Definition of 'gather'
From: WordNet
noun
Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [syn: gather, gathering]
noun
The act of gathering something [syn: gather, gathering]
verb
Assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [syn: gather, garner, collect, pull together] [ant: distribute, spread]
verb
Collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather]
verb
Collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]
verb
Conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework"
verb
verb
Get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members" [syn: assemble, gather, get together]
verb
Draw and bring closer; "she gathered her shawl around her shoulders"
verb
Look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"
verb
Increase or develop; "the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed" [syn: gain, gather]
Definition of 'Gather'
From: GCIDE
- Gather \Gath"er\ (g[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. g[ae]d fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. [root]29. See Good, and cf. Together.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate. [1913 Webster]
- And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. --Matt. ii. 4. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck. [1913 Webster]
- A rose just gathered from the stalk. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? --Matt. vii. 16. [1913 Webster]
- Gather us from among the heathen. --Ps. cvi. 47. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. [1913 Webster]
- He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. --Prov. xxviii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. [1913 Webster]
- Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. [1913 Webster]
- Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To gain; to win. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He gathers ground upon her in the chase. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Arch.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope. [1913 Webster]
- To be gathered to one's people or {To be gathered to one's fathers} to die. --Gen. xxv. 8.
- To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest. --Spenser.
- To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
- To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gather'
From: GCIDE
- Gather \Gath"er\, v. i.
- 1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. [1913 Webster]
- When small humors gather to a gout. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To grow larger by accretion; to increase. [1913 Webster]
- Their snowball did not gather as it went. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To collect or bring things together. [1913 Webster]
- Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed. --Matt. xxv. 26. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gather'
From: GCIDE
- Gather \Gath"er\, n.
- 1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gather'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accouple,
- accumulate,
- affiliate,
- agglomerate,
- agglutinate,
- aggregate,
- aggroup,
- ally,
- amass,
- approach,
- articulate,
- assemble,
- associate,
- assume,
- await,
- band,
- batch,
- be afraid,
- be imminent,
- be in store,
- believe,
- blast,
- blossom,
- blow,
- blow a hurricane,
- blow great guns,
- blow over,
- blow up,
- bluster,
- bond,
- bracket,
- breeze,
- breeze up,
- brew,
- bridge,
- bridge over,
- bring in,
- bring together,
- build,
- bulk,
- bunch,
- bunch together,
- bunch up,
- burgeon,
- catch,
- cement,
- chain,
- choose,
- clap together,
- clot,
- clump,
- cluster,
- collect,
- colligate,
- collocate,
- combine,
- come on,
- come together,
- come up,
- compare,
- compile,
- comprise,
- concatenate,
- conceive,
- conclude,
- confront,
- conglobulate,
- conglomerate,
- congregate,
- congress,
- conjoin,
- conjugate,
- connect,
- consider,
- constrict,
- contract,
- convene,
- converge,
- copulate,
- corral,
- couple,
- cover,
- crease,
- creasing,
- crimp,
- crisp,
- crop,
- crop herbs,
- crowd,
- cull,
- cumulate,
- cut,
- daresay,
- date,
- deduce,
- deduct,
- deem,
- deepen,
- derive,
- develop,
- dig,
- dig up,
- divine,
- dog-ear,
- double,
- double over,
- doubling,
- drag up,
- draw,
- draw a conclusion,
- draw an inference,
- draw near,
- draw nigh,
- draw on,
- draw together,
- draw up,
- dream,
- dredge,
- dredge up,
- drive together,
- duplicature,
- embrace,
- encompass,
- encounter,
- enfold,
- enlarge,
- expand,
- expect,
- extend,
- extract,
- face,
- fancy,
- fathom,
- feel,
- fetch,
- find,
- fish up,
- flection,
- flexure,
- flock together,
- flounce,
- flourish,
- flow together,
- flute,
- fold,
- fold over,
- follow,
- forgather,
- forthcome,
- freshen,
- frill,
- fuse,
- gang around,
- gang up,
- garner,
- gather around,
- gather in,
- gather together,
- gather up,
- germinate,
- get in,
- get together,
- glean,
- glue,
- grabble,
- grant,
- grasp,
- group,
- grow,
- grow up,
- grub,
- grub up,
- hang over,
- harvest,
- haul up,
- hay,
- heap,
- heap up,
- hear,
- heighten,
- herd together,
- hive,
- horde,
- hover,
- huddle,
- huff,
- hypertrophy,
- imagine,
- impend,
- include,
- increase,
- induce,
- infer,
- infold,
- intensify,
- interfold,
- join,
- judge,
- juxtapose,
- knot,
- lap over,
- lapel,
- lappet,
- lay together,
- league,
- learn,
- let,
- let be,
- lie over,
- link,
- loom,
- lower,
- lump together,
- make,
- make out,
- make up,
- marry,
- marshal,
- mass,
- match,
- mature,
- meet,
- menace,
- merge,
- mill,
- mobilize,
- mow,
- mushroom,
- muster,
- near,
- nut,
- opine,
- outgrow,
- overdevelop,
- overgrow,
- overhang,
- overtop,
- pair,
- partner,
- pick,
- pick up,
- piece together,
- pile,
- pile up,
- pipe up,
- plait,
- plat,
- pleat,
- plica,
- plicate,
- plication,
- plicature,
- pluck,
- pluck up,
- ply,
- prefigure,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- procreate,
- provisionally accept,
- pucker,
- puff,
- pull together,
- pullulate,
- purse,
- put together,
- quill,
- rage,
- raise,
- rake up,
- rally,
- rally around,
- reap,
- reap and carry,
- reason,
- reason that,
- reckon,
- rendezvous,
- reproduce,
- repute,
- rise,
- roll into one,
- round up,
- ruche,
- ruching,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- say,
- scare up,
- scrape together,
- scrape up,
- seethe,
- select,
- set in,
- shirr,
- shoot up,
- solder,
- span,
- splice,
- spring up,
- sprout,
- sprout up,
- squall,
- stack,
- stick together,
- stock,
- stockpile,
- storm,
- stream,
- suppose,
- surge,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- swarm,
- take,
- take as proved,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take in,
- take it,
- take to be,
- take up,
- tape,
- think,
- threaten,
- thrive,
- throng,
- tie,
- tower,
- troop,
- tuck,
- turn out,
- turn over,
- twill,
- understand,
- unify,
- unite,
- upshoot,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- upsprout,
- vegetate,
- waft,
- wax,
- weld,
- whiff,
- whiffle,
- whip in,
- yoke
Words containing 'Gather'
- Gatherable,
- Gathered,
- Gatherer,
- Gathering,
- gather in,
- gather up,
- Gathering board,
- Gathering coal,
- Gathering hoop,
- Gathering peat,
- To gather breath,
- To gather ground,
- To gather way,
- Toll gatherer,
- gather around,
- gathered skirt,
- gathering clouds,
- gathering place,
- information gathering,
- social gathering,
- To be gathered to one's fathers,
- To be gathered to one's people,
- hunter-gatherer,
- hunting and gathering society,
- hunting and gathering tribe,
- To gather one's self together