What's the difference between gathering and jollity?

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.

Jollity


Definition:

  • (n.) Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The failure to bring Biggs home and the subsequent jollity that the "slip-up" afforded the media continued to rankle.
  • (2) If festive jollity has been in short supply in the Hughes household, it was completely absent from the dugout and the deposed manager absented himself from the press conference afterwards.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Beneath any jollity there is a foundation of fury.
  • (4) How much of her jollity and relative straightforwardness is an act?
  • (5) He said the BBC's intention on the Sunday of the jubilee weekend, the day of the river pageant, had been to "broaden the range of voices and having some fun and games and jollity as well".
  • (6) I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.
  • (7) "What I would say is we were trying to simultaneously reflect both the pomp and circumstance, the history and the heritage, but also particularly the Sunday was intended as the people's element of this, which meant we were absolutely broadening the range of voices and having some fun and games and jollity as well."
  • (8) But beneath any jollity there is a foundation of fury.
  • (9) But 99% of the time, the balance between grit and jollity was struck perfectly.
  • (10) At the moment cheerleaders The Crystals are keeping the crowd entertained, along with their partner in pre-match jollity, Kayla the eagle.
  • (11) So it shouldn’t be jollity all the way in Dominic Hill’s revival, but expect the ghosts to be genuinely spooky and Ebenezer Scrooge to be particularly miserly.