What's the difference between bather and gather?

Bather


Definition:

  • (n.) One who bathes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of nine affected bathers, five showed inflammation of Montgomery's follicles of the breast.
  • (2) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (3) The sauna evokes memories of childhood development, awakening feelings of maternal warmth and paternal power in the bather.
  • (4) Random samples of the weekly entry of bathers to a swimming pool were examined for tinea pedis and verruca before and at intervals after the supply of individual sachets of foot powder to all bathers.Over three and a half years the overall incidence of tinea pedis decreased from 8.5% to 2.1%, and in adult males it decreased from 21.5% to 6.9%.
  • (5) 'Hermless, hermless, there's never nae bather fae me, I go to the library, I tak oot a book, and then I go hame for meh tea.'"
  • (6) A documentary film on Denmark that is shown to immigrants as part of the test for entry should include topless bathers, said Peter Skaarup, the party's foreign affairs spokesman.
  • (7) It is concluded that sauna bathing involves dangers to the bather's health, which may appear suddenly, without prodromal warning signs.
  • (8) A 10% random sample of all bathers at a public swimming bath were examined for tinea pedis and verruca.The overall incidence of tinea pedis was 8.5% and of verruca 4.8%.
  • (9) They waved and shouted at the watching journalists as they passed a little collection of brightly coloured beach tents, used by bathers in peacetime.
  • (10) Exposure to sauna heat during sauna bathing raises the skin temperature of the bather near the hot pain perception threshold and enhances sympathetic activity.
  • (11) Lifeguards patrol the beach in the summer and surfers are asked not to come within 100 metres of the tide line, to allow bathers a good stretch of safe water.
  • (12) But this serene pool allows bathers to enjoy the marine violence without having to interact too much with it.
  • (13) Once out of the austere sauna, bathers have a shower and sit outside on a little brick wall on the side of the pavement to cool down, drinking and eating.
  • (14) Only 14 cathers were bitten (through treading on the sea-snake; no bathers were bitten while swimming).
  • (15) The bathers should be able to vary the humidity to their liking by casting water on the stones heated in or on the sauna oven.
  • (16) Great white sharks could be regular visitors to the coast by the 2080s, where they could find more bathers enjoying the Mediterranean climate.
  • (17) Instead there is just one early Bathers composition by him.
  • (18) Five thousand people were involved in the riot last December on Cronulla beach, which started as a protest to “reclaim the beach” from groups of mainly Lebanese youths who had reportedly intimidated young Australian women bathers and assaulted two volunteer life savers.
  • (19) The levels of Escherichia coli at a number of beaches was observed to be influenced by tide, and for staphylococci, by bather numbers.
  • (20) Additional attention should be directed to the bacteriology of the water surface film, which presents a more direct hazard to bathers.

Gather


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
  • (v. t.) To gain; to win.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
  • (v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
  • (v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
  • (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
  • (v. i.) To collect or bring things together.
  • (n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
  • (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
  • (n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prevalence data has been gathered from several autopsy studies.
  • (2) On the other hand, when the global results were gathered according to male and female categories, the first one proved to be predominant.
  • (3) And now here we all were, gathered together at Maine Road, on the brink of relegation.
  • (4) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
  • (5) Saline-injected controls started gathering the pups immediately and usually showed all elements of maternal behaviour within 10 min.
  • (6) 5.49am BST I gather Rudd is now on his way to the Brisvegas Show.
  • (7) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
  • (8) Down the road another group of protesters gathered outside the chain-link fence surrounding the Marriott's perimeter.
  • (9) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
  • (10) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (11) Ethological methods were employed to gather normative data on social behavior in long stay male inpatients in the ward environment.
  • (12) A microcomputer system is described for the collection, analysis and printing of the physiological data gathered during a urodynamic investigation.
  • (13) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (14) The interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, left a gathering of the Mexican diplomatic corps to take a call from President Enrique Peña Nieto.
  • (15) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
  • (16) It also seems to be a bit useless as a way of gathering intelligence.
  • (17) The pair woke up early and gathered their birth certificates, social security cards and passports before making the roughly three-hour commute.
  • (18) Measures of physical development were gathered at birth and at ages 3, 5 and 7 years on a sample of over 800 children as part of a multidisciplinary development study.
  • (19) This is why a campaign , orchestrated by Ali and last week discussed in parliament, is gathering speed, and clued-up ministers grow anxious.
  • (20) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.

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