What's the difference between festival and gathering?

Festival


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
  • (2) The dog was discovered in a tent during a clean-up after thousands of festival-goers left the site.
  • (3) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
  • (4) • Gone Girl picked for opening slot at New York film festival • We predict how Venice, Toronto and Telluride will split the 2014 world premieres
  • (5) In 1972, he launched a more ambitious plan by buying Hintlesham Hall, a decrepit grade-11 listed building in Suffolk, converting it into a home and three restaurants and taking over the Hintlesham festival held there.
  • (6) But then came the Cannes film festival, and The Artist .
  • (7) Here's what you need to know Read more Speaking to Guardian Australia ahead of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Krugman, a renowned columnist at the New York Times , predicted the slowing Chinese economy would hurt Australia, but said the country should not get “too hysterical” about it.
  • (8) It's the slogan of an old electronica & dance music festival in Berlin known as The Love Parade.
  • (9) From next year, this multi-layered service will cover the Winter Olympics, the World Cup, the FA Cup and Commonwealth Games, alongside major festivals like the Proms, the Edinburgh Festival and Glastonbury.
  • (10) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (11) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
  • (12) I remember putting on Gothic in 1986 as the finale of the London film festival.
  • (13) Speaking at a film festival in Dubai he said: "My compass has not stopped spinning," referring to the many policy switches made by the party he previously supported.
  • (14) Given the Panahi situation, it seems almost appropriate that this year's festival has been quite downbeat with films mining the darker seams of the human condition.
  • (15) 27 August, 8pm Will Self The nearest the book festival circuit has to a rock star has three slots.
  • (16) Then again, any show attracting reviews as bad as Celtic have had in the last week would be lucky to survive any longer at the Festival and this performance has left them on the fringes of European football.
  • (17) In 2014, they organised the city’s first literature festival , hosting 25 events over two days.
  • (18) At Montpellier, the director, Jean-Paul Montanari, said he expected the whole festival industry to collapse but blamed the centre-right government's lack of interest in culture.
  • (19) But after reviewing it over the past few days with the Tribeca film festival team and others from the scientific community, we do not believe it contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.
  • (20) Between festivals, Hardee played cameo roles in TV comedies such as Blackadder and The Comic Strip, and ran his own comedy club, the Tunnel, which he had opened at the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1984; it acquired a fearsome reputation as a graveyard for aspiring standups.

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.