Definitions of gather [ˈgæð ər]

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Definition of 'gather'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) gather
to bring together into one group, collection, or place; collect:
to gather firewood; to gather supporters.

2.  gather
to pick or harvest (any crop or natural yield) from its place of growth:
to gather fruit.

3.  gather
to pick up piece by piece:
Gather your toys from the floor.

4.  gather
to pick or scoop up:
She gathered the crying child in her arms.

5.  gather
to serve as a center of attention for; attract.

6.  gather
to increase gradually and steadily:
The car gathered speed.

7.  gather
to take by selection from among other things; sort out; cull.

8.  gather
to assemble or collect (one's energies or oneself) as for an effort (often fol. by up).

9.  gather
to learn or conclude from observation; infer; deduce:
I gather that she is the real leader.

10.  gather
to wrap or draw around or close:
He gathered his scarf around his neck.

11.  gather
to contract (the brow) into wrinkles.

12.  gather
to draw (cloth) up on a thread in fine folds or puckers by means of even stitches.

13.  gather
to assemble (the printed sections of a book) in proper sequence for binding.

14.  gather
to accumulate or collect (molten glass) at the end of a tube for blowing, shaping, etc.

15. (v.i.) gather
to come together around a central point; assemble.

16.  gather
to collect or accumulate:
Clouds were gathering in the northeast.

17.  gather
to grow, as by accretion; increase.

18.  gather
to become contracted into wrinkles, folds, or creases, as the brow or as cloth.

19.  gather
to come to a head, as a sore in suppurating.

20. (n.) gather
a drawing together; contraction.

21.  gather
Often, gathers. a fold or pucker, as in gathered cloth.

22.  gather
an act or instance of gathering.

23.  gather
an amount or number gathered, as during a harvest.

Definition of 'gather'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) gather, gathering
sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

2. (verb) gather, gathering
the act of gathering something

3. (verb) gather, garner, collect, pull together
assemble or get together
"gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"

4. (verb) meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
collect in one place
"We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"

5. (verb) accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass
collect or gather
"Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"

6. (verb) gather
conclude from evidence
"I gather you have not done your homework"

7. (verb) gather, pucker, tuck
draw together into folds or puckers

8. (verb) assemble, gather, get together
get people together
"assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members"

9. (verb) gather
draw and bring closer
"she gathered her shawl around her shoulders"

10. (verb) gather
look for (food) in nature
"Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"

11. (verb) gain, gather
increase or develop
"the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed"

Definition of 'gather'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) gather
to come together, or make come together
Experts from around the world are gathering in Cambridge this week.; Gather your team members together to discuss your strategy.

2.  gather
to collect
The children gathered leaves from the ground.; to gather information

3.  gather
to believe sth because of information you have heard
I gather (that) they're leaving soon.

4.  gather
to increase in speed, strength, etc.
The airplane gathers speed as it moves along the runway.

Definition of 'gather'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) gather
a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker

2. (noun) gather
the inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward

3. (noun) gather
the soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7

4. (verb) gather
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

5. (verb) gather
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

6. (verb) gather
to accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up

7. (verb) gather
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

8. (verb) gather
to derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude

9. (verb) gather
to gain; to win

10. (verb) gather
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

11. (verb) gather
to haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope

12. (verb) gather
to come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate

13. (verb) gather
to grow larger by accretion; to increase

14. (verb) gather
to concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered

15. (verb) gather
to collect or bring things together

Translation of 'gather'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to (cause to) come together in one place A crowd of people gathered near the accident.
Afrikaans: saamdrom	Arabic: يَحْتَشِد، يَتَجَمَّع	Bulgarian: събирам се
Brazilian: reunir-se	Czech: shromáždit se	German: versammeln
Danish: samle sig; samles	Greek: συγκεντρώνω, συγκεντρώνομ	Spanish: reunir(se), juntar(se), c
Estonian: koguma, kogunema	Farsi: گرد آمدن	Finnish: kokoontua
French: (s')assembler, (se) rasse	Hebrew: לְכַנֵס	Hindi: इकठ्ठा करना
Croatian: okupiti se	Hungarian: (össze)gyűjt; (össze)gyűl	Indonesian: berkumpul
Icelandic: safnast saman	Italian: radunarsi	Japanese: 集まる
Korean: …을 (끌어) 모으다	Lithuanian: su(si)rinkti	Latvian: sapulcēties; sapulcināt
Malay: berkumpul	Dutch: (doen) bijeenkomen	Norwegian: samle(s)
Polish: zbierać się	Persian: گرد آمدن	Pashto: ټولول، غونډول، يو ځاى كول
Portuguese: reunir-se	Romanian: a se strânge, a se aduna	Russian: собираться
Slovak: zhromaždiť sa	Slovenian: zbrati se	Serbian: okupiti se
Swedish: [för]samlas	Thai: ชุมนุม	Turkish: topla(n)mak
Taiwanese: (使)聚集	Ukrainian: збиратися; скупчуватися	Urdu: اکٹھا کرنا
Vietnamese: tụ họp; tập hợp	Chinese: 聚集
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