gather
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Contents |
English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-Germanic *gadurōnan (“to bring together, unite, gather”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *gadōnan (“to hold together”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰhedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”). Cognate with Dutch gaderen, garen (“to gather”), Middle High German gadern (“to gather”), Old Frisian gadia (“to unite”), German begatten (“to mate”), Albanian gjedhe (“model, sample; to choose, prefer”). Compare also Old English gæd (“society, fellowship, union”). More at good.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
gather (third-person singular simple present gathers, present participle gathering, simple past and past participle gathered)
- To collect; normally separate things.
- I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
- She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
- If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- 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.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
Translations [edit]
To bring together; to collect
|
|
To harvest
To accumulate
|
To bring parts of a whole closer
To derive, or deduce
To congregate
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
Noun [edit]
gather (plural gathers)
- 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 (transitive verb).
- (glassblowing) A piece of molten glass colected on the end of a blowpipe.
