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.

Compare gather with other words:

adjourn vs. gather

gather vs. setout

gather vs. lather

bather vs. gather

collector vs. gather

gather vs. organized

gather vs. mather

gather vs. huddle

gather vs. rather

father vs. gather

gather vs. secure

gather vs. permission

acquire vs. gather

elicit vs. gather

accumulation vs. gather

gather vs. hasten

gather vs. together

gather vs. stagnate

gather vs. retrieve

gather vs. pick

forage vs. gather

enter vs. gather

capture vs. gather

gather vs. vindemiation

gather vs. gatherable

gather vs. vintager

gather vs. marver

gather vs. glomerate

converge vs. gather

compile vs. gather

content vs. gather

cumulate vs. gather

cumulation vs. gather

gather vs. obtain

gather vs. teem

equally vs. gather

able vs. gather

denote vs. gather

gather vs. race

force vs. gather

denoting vs. gather

fetch vs. gather

bundle vs. gather

consume vs. gather

gather vs. setting

gather vs. macedonian

gather vs. grasp

gather vs. reckon

correct vs. gather

capable vs. gather

gather vs. regather

forgather vs. gather

gather vs. shirr

gather vs. stroking

gather vs. harvester

concourse vs. gather

example vs. gather

gather vs. rally

aggregate vs. gather

furbelow vs. gather

clump vs. gather

garner vs. gather

gather vs. gatherer

gather vs. gathering

gather vs. tuck

convene vs. gather

fielder vs. gather

bunch vs. gather

collection vs. gather

gather vs. intelligence

gather vs. reap

gather vs. lease

blowpipe vs. gather

gather vs. glass

gather vs. molten

filled vs. gather

gather vs. sore

boil vs. gather

gather vs. source

gather vs. know

conclude vs. gather

gather vs. infer

gather vs. stitch

gather vs. pleat

closer vs. gather

gather vs. part

congregate vs. gather

gather vs. harvest

congestion vs. gather

confer vs. gather

assemble vs. gather

gather vs. sheave

cull vs. gather

gather vs. sheaf

gather vs. nutter

blackberry vs. gather

gather vs. herd

agglomerate vs. gather

apportion vs. gather

amass vs. gather

gather vs. glean

blueberry vs. gather

collect vs. gather

gather vs. group

gather vs. upgather

brew vs. gather

gather vs. meet

gather vs. raspberry

accumulate vs. gather

accoil vs. gather

gather vs. molecule