gather

Plural: gathers

Noun

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
• the act of gathering something
• 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.
• A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
• A gathering.

Verb

Verb Forms: gathered, gathering, gathers

• To bring or come together into one place or group.
• assemble or get together
  • "gather some stones"
• collect in one place
  • "Let's gather in the dining room"
• collect or gather
• conclude from evidence
  • "I gather you have not done your homework"
• draw together into folds or puckers
• get people together
  • "gather the close family members"
• draw and bring closer
  • "she gathered her shawl around her shoulders"
• look for (food) in nature
  • "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"
• increase or develop
  • "the car gathers speed"
• To collect normally separate things.
• To collect normally separate things.
• Especially, to harvest food.
• To collect normally separate things.
• To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
• To collect normally separate things.
• To congregate, or assemble.
• To collect normally separate things.
• To grow gradually larger by accretion.
• To bring parts of a whole closer.
• To bring parts of a whole closer.
• To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
• To bring parts of a whole closer.
• To bring stitches closer together.
• To bring parts of a whole closer.
• 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.
• To bring parts of a whole closer.
• To haul in; to take up.
• To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• To be filled with pus
• To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• To gain; to win.

Examples

• A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
• Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
• From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
• I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
• I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
• If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
• Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
• People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
• Players often GATHER their thoughts carefully before making a high-stakes Scrabble move.
• Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
• She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
• She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
• to gather the slack of a rope
• We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.

Synonyms

accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, conglomerate, cumulate, foregather, forgather, gain, garner, gathering, get together, meet, pile up, pucker, pull together, tuck, accrue, add up, begather

Antonyms

spread

Anagrams of gather