What's the difference between congregation and gathering?

Congregation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
  • (n.) A collection or mass of separate things.
  • (n.) An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
  • (n.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
  • (n.) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • (n.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
  • (n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
  • (n.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When he finished his peroration, the congregants applauded and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
  • (2) The particles were congregated in the walls of blood vessels and in perivascular fibrous zones, consistent with a causal role of Thorotrast in the development of lung fibrosis.
  • (3) A typology of the social climates of group residential facilities for older people was developed by a cluster analysis of seven social climate attributes obtained on a national sample of 235 nursing homes, residential care facilities, and congregate apartments.
  • (4) Referring to the 2011 census, he told the congregation that "faith is not about what public opinion decides", and Christians should not lose heart.
  • (5) Teenagers, parents and teachers interrupt their summer holidays and congregate at schools to receive GCSE exam results.
  • (6) Michel claimed that God had deserted Shenouda's congregation and that more than a million Copts had become Muslims or evangelical Christians.
  • (7) On Wednesday the protests were large but a lot calmer At the intersection of North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore a small group of protesters congregated as the curfew loomed but gradually departed, leaving empty streets.
  • (8) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.
  • (9) It created a cooperation between state and private initiatives, and between scientific work and management, based on voluntary congregation of all partners.
  • (10) Thousands are expected to join a "feeder march" outside the University of London student union building in Bloomsbury at 10am before making their way to the Embankment, where the main body of the TUC march is congregating.
  • (11) Government-backed demolition crews forced hundreds of churches to remove prominently placed crosses, despite elaborate protests and sit-ins by congregants.
  • (12) Other LH-RH neurons in the medial septal nucleus, nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca and olfactory tubercle are congregated in small clusters around large blood vessels which penetrate into this area, and they do not appear to send axons outside their immediate vicinity.
  • (13) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
  • (14) When we reached Sanjiang, in Zhejiang province, an elderly woman was angrily telling the pastor how at the end of April police dispersed members of her congregation and neighbouring ones who had come to protect their new Protestant church from being bulldozed .
  • (15) It would be convenient to explain his increasingly outspoken attacks in the context of a church whose congregations include many Catholic migrants.
  • (16) He said: "Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants.
  • (17) Minister Stan Smith said members of the Cornerstone Community Church congregation were offering to mourn with people who were heartbroken by the news of Henning's death.
  • (18) Entrepreneural nurses have the opportunity to seek out congregate housing sites with large aging populations to create ways of promoting healthy lifestyles and a higher quality of life for older persons.
  • (19) It is likely that the same males that were territorial would have formed the nucleus of a social hierarchy if space had been limited enough to cause all of the females in the population to congregate in one large group.
  • (20) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.

Gathering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gather
  • (n.) The act of collecting or bringing together.
  • (n.) That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
  • (n.) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
  • (n.) A charitable contribution; a collection.
  • (n.) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
  • (a.) Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

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.