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Noun | 1. | gather - sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching |
2. | gather - the act of gathering something centralisation, centralization - gathering to a center | |
Verb | 1. | gather - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" rake - gather with a rake; "rake leaves" club - gather into a club-like mass; "club hair" hive - gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm" salvage, scavenge - collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" muster, muster up, rally, summon, come up - gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" round up - seek out and bring together; "round up some loyal followers" nut - gather nuts snail - gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer" nest - gather nests oyster - gather oysters, dig oysters sponge - gather sponges, in the ocean pearl - gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean clam - gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean shock - collect or gather into shocks; "shock grain" heap up, stack up, pile up - arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room" spread, distribute - distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country" |
2. | ![]() meet - meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?" encounter, meet, run across, come across, run into, see - come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" congregate - come together, usually for a purpose; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve" hive - move together in a hive or as if in a hive; "The bee swarms are hiving" convene - meet formally; "The council convened last week" cluster, constellate, flock, clump - come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" crowd together, crowd - to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" converge - move or draw together at a certain location; "The crowd converged on the movie star" interact - act together or towards others or with others; "He should interact more with his colleagues" turn out - come and gather for a public event; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York" caucus - meet to select a candidate or promote a policy club - gather and spend time together; "They always club together" | |
3. | ![]() increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased" backlog - accumulate and create a backlog accrete - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion" drift - be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow" | |
4. | gather - conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework" conclude, reason, reason out - decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" | |
5. | gather - draw together into folds or puckers | |
6. | ![]() make - form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum" | |
7. | gather - draw and bring closer; "she gathered her shawl around her shoulders" pull - apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion; "Pull the rope"; "Pull the handle towards you"; "pull the string gently"; "pull the trigger of the gun"; "pull your knees towards your chin" | |
8. | gather - look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall" look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" shell - look for and collect shells by the seashore | |
9. | gather - increase or develop; "the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed" increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased" |