GATHER
\ɡˈaðə], \ɡˈaðə], \ɡ_ˈa_ð_ə]\
Definitions of GATHER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members"
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collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
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assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
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conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework"
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look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"
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draw fabric together and sew it tightly
By Princeton University
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get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members"
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collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
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assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
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conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework"
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look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"
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draw fabric together and sew it tightly
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
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To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
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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.
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To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
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To gain; to win.
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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.
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To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
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To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
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To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
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To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
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To collect or bring things together.
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A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
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The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
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The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
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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.
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To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
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To gain; to win.
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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.
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To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
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To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
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To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
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To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
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To collect or bring things together.
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A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
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The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
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The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
By Noah Webster.
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To assemble or bring together; collect; bring into one place; pick up; glean; pluck; accumulate; pucker or plait; infer.
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To congregate; generate pus; increase; ripen.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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To collect: to acquire: to plait: to learn by inference.
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To assemble or muster: to increase: to suppurate.
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A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing the thread through.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To deduce; infer.
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To draw into folds.
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To congregate.
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To increase; accumulate.
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To come to a head; concentrate.
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A plait or fold in cloth.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing. To gather breath, to have respite.
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To bring together; to collect; to pluck; to acquire; to accumulate; to contract; to pucker; to plait; to deduce by inference.
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To collect; to increase; to generate pus or matter; to ripen.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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