gather

gath·er

G0059300 (găth′ər)v. gath·ered, gath·er·ing, gath·ers v.tr.1. a. To collect from different places; assemble: gather the pieces of a puzzle; gather information.b. To cause to come together; convene: The teacher gathered the students around the exhibit.c. To draw (something or someone) closer to oneself: gathered the shawl about my shoulders; gathered the child in her arms.d. To draw into small folds or puckers, as by pulling a thread through cloth.e. To contract and wrinkle (the brow).2. To harvest or pick: gather crops; gather mushrooms.3. To conclude or infer, as from evidence: I gather a decision has not been reached.4. To summon up; muster: gathered up his courage.5. a. To accumulate (something) gradually; amass: The top of the bookshelf gathered dust.b. To attract or be the center of attraction for: The jugglers gathered a large crowd.6. To gain by a process of gradual increase: gather speed.7. To pick up or collect (molten glass) using a tool in glass blowing.v.intr.1. To come together in a group; assemble: A crowd gathered in the lobby.2. To accumulate: Dark clouds are gathering.3. To grow or increase by degrees: The truck's speed gathered on the downslope.4. To come to a head, as a boil; fester.5. To forage for wild foodstuffs.n.1. The act or an instance of gathering.2. Something gathered, especially:a. A small fold or pucker made by gathering cloth.b. A mass of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe or other glass-blowing tool.

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[Middle English getheren, gaderen, from Old English gadrian; see ghedh- in Indo-European roots.]

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gath′er·er n.Synonyms: gather, collect¹, assemble, congregate, accumulate, amass
These verbs mean to bring or come together in a group or aggregate. Gather is the most widely applicable: I gathered sticks for the fire. Clouds gathered in the evening sky. Collect frequently refers to the careful selection of like or related things that become part of an organized whole: She collects stamps as a hobby. In other contexts, collect suggests the gradual process by which similar items or materials come together to form a distinct mass: Dust collected on the shelves. Leaves collected in the gutter. Assemble implies a definite and usually close relationship. With respect to persons, the term suggests convening out of common interest or purpose: Assembling an able staff was more difficult than expected. The reporters assembled for the press conference. With respect to things, assemble implies gathering and fitting together components: The curator is assembling an interesting exhibit of Stone Age artifacts. Congregate refers chiefly to the coming together of a large number of persons or animals: The students congregated after class to compare notes. Accumulate applies to the increase of like or related things over an extended period: They accumulated enough capital to invest. Old newspapers accumulated in the basement. Amass refers to the collection or accumulation of things, often valuable things, to form an imposing quantity: Their families had amassed great fortunes. Rocks had amassed at the bottom of the glacier. See Also Synonyms at reap.

gather

(ˈɡæðə) vb1. to assemble or cause to assemble2. to collect or be collected gradually; muster3. (tr) to learn from information given; conclude or assume4. (tr) to pick or harvest (flowers, fruit, etc)5. (tr; foll by to or into) to clasp or embrace: the mother gathered the child into her arms. 6. (tr) to bring close (to) or wrap (around): she gathered her shawl about her shoulders. 7. to increase or cause to increase gradually, as in force, speed, intensity, etc8. to contract (the brow) or (of the brow) to become contracted into wrinkles; knit9. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to assemble (sections of a book) in the correct sequence for binding10. (tr) to collect by making a selection11. (tr) to prepare or make ready: to gather one's wits. 12. (Knitting & Sewing) to draw (material) into a series of small tucks or folds by passing a thread through it and then pulling it tight13. (Pathology) (intr) (of a boil or other sore) to come to a head; form pusn14. a. the act of gatheringb. the amount gathered15. (Knitting & Sewing) a small fold in material, as made by a tightly pulled stitch; tuck16. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing an informal name for section¹⁷[Old English gadrian; related to Old Frisian gaderia, Middle Low German gaderen] ˈgatherable adj ˈgatherer n

gath•er

(ˈgæð ər)
v.t. 1. to bring together into one group, collection, or place; collect: to gather firewood; to gather supporters. 2. to pick or harvest (any crop or natural yield) from its place of growth: to gather fruit. 3. to pick up piece by piece: Gather your toys from the floor. 4. to pick or scoop up: She gathered the crying child in her arms. 5. to serve as a center of attention for; attract. 6. to increase gradually and steadily: The car gathered speed. 7. to take by selection from among other things; sort out; cull. 8. to assemble or collect (one's energies or oneself) as for an effort (often fol. by up). 9. to learn or conclude from observation; infer; deduce: I gather that she is the real leader. 10. to wrap or draw around or close: He gathered his scarf around his neck. 11. to contract (the brow) into wrinkles. 12. to draw (cloth) up on a thread in fine folds or puckers by means of even stitches. 13. to assemble (the printed sections of a book) in proper sequence for binding. 14. to accumulate or collect (molten glass) at the end of a tube for blowing, shaping, etc. v.i. 15. to come together around a central point; assemble. 16. to collect or accumulate: Clouds were gathering in the northeast. 17. to grow, as by accretion; increase. 18. to become contracted into wrinkles, folds, or creases, as the brow or as cloth. 19. to come to a head, as a sore in suppurating. n. 20. a drawing together; contraction. 21. Often, gathers. a fold or pucker, as in gathered cloth. 22. an act or instance of gathering. 23. an amount or number gathered, as during a harvest. Idioms: be gathered to one's fathers, to die. [before 900; Old English gaderian, derivative of geador together, akin to gæd fellowship; compare together] gath′er•er, n. syn: gather, assemble, collect, muster, marshal imply bringing or drawing together. gather expresses the general idea usu. with no implication of arrangement: to gather seashells. assemble is used of persons, objects, or facts brought together in a specific place or for a specific purpose: to assemble data for a report. collect implies purposeful accumulation to form an ordered whole: to collect evidence. muster, primarily a military term, suggests thoroughness in the process of collection: to muster all one's resources. marshal, another chiefly military term, suggests rigorously ordered, purposeful arrangement: to marshal facts for effective presentation.

gather

Past participle: gathered
Gerund: gathering

Imperative
gather
gather

Present
I gather
you gather
he/she/it gathers
we gather
you gather
they gather

Preterite
I gathered
you gathered
he/she/it gathered
we gathered
you gathered
they gathered

Present Continuous
I am gathering
you are gathering
he/she/it is gathering
we are gathering
you are gathering
they are gathering

Present Perfect
I have gathered
you have gathered
he/she/it has gathered
we have gathered
you have gathered
they have gathered

Past Continuous
I was gathering
you were gathering
he/she/it was gathering
we were gathering
you were gathering
they were gathering

Past Perfect
I had gathered
you had gathered
he/she/it had gathered
we had gathered
you had gathered
they had gathered

Future
I will gather
you will gather
he/she/it will gather
we will gather
you will gather
they will gather

Future Perfect
I will have gathered
you will have gathered
he/she/it will have gathered
we will have gathered
you will have gathered
they will have gathered

Future Continuous
I will be gathering
you will be gathering
he/she/it will be gathering
we will be gathering
you will be gathering
they will be gathering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been gathering
you have been gathering
he/she/it has been gathering
we have been gathering
you have been gathering
they have been gathering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been gathering
you will have been gathering
he/she/it will have been gathering
we will have been gathering
you will have been gathering
they will have been gathering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been gathering
you had been gathering
he/she/it had been gathering
we had been gathering
you had been gathering
they had been gathering

Conditional
I would gather
you would gather
he/she/it would gather
we would gather
you would gather
they would gather

Past Conditional
I would have gathered
you would have gathered
he/she/it would have gathered
we would have gathered
you would have gathered
they would have gathered

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	gather - sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitchinggatheringstitchery, sewing - needlework on which you are working with needle and thread; "she put her sewing back in the basket"
	2.	gather - the act of gathering somethinggatheringassembling, collecting, aggregation, collection - the act of gathering something togethercentralisation, centralization - gathering to a centerharvest home, harvesting, harvest - the gathering of a ripened crop
Verb	1.	gather - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"pull together, collect, garnermobilize, marshal, mobilise, summon - make ready for action or use; "marshal resources"rake - gather with a rake; "rake leaves"glean, harvest, reap - gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"club - gather into a club-like mass; "club hair"hive - gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm"salvage, scavenge - collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food"muster, muster up, rally, summon, come up - gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage"round up - seek out and bring together; "round up some loyal followers"cull, pick, pluck - look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"nut - gather nutssnail - gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"birdnest, bird-nest - gather birdnests; "They went birdnesting in the early morning"nest - gather nestsoyster - gather oysters, dig oysterssponge - gather sponges, in the oceanpearl - gather pearls, from oysters in the oceanclam - gather clams, by digging in the sand by the oceanshock - collect or gather into shocks; "shock grain"heap up, stack up, pile up - arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"gather up, lift up, pick up - take and lift upwardspread, distribute - distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country"
	2.	gather - collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"foregather, forgather, assemble, meetaggroup, group - form a group or group togethermeet - meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?"encounter, meet, run across, come across, run into, see - come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"congregate - come together, usually for a purpose; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve"hive - move together in a hive or as if in a hive; "The bee swarms are hiving"fort, fort up - gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defenseconvene - meet formally; "The council convened last week"cluster, constellate, flock, clump - come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"crowd together, crowd - to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"converge - move or draw together at a certain location; "The crowd converged on the movie star"interact - act together or towards others or with others; "He should interact more with his colleagues"turn out - come and gather for a public event; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York"caucus - meet to select a candidate or promote a policyclub - gather and spend time together; "They always club together"
	3.	gather - collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up, accumulateincrease - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"backlog - accumulate and create a backlogaccrete - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion"drift - be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
	4.	gather - conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework"conclude, reason, reason out - decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"
	5.	gather - draw together into folds or puckerspucker, tucksew, sew together, stitch, run up - fasten by sewing; do needlework
	6.	gather - get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members"get together, assemblemake - form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum"
	7.	gather - draw and bring closer; "she gathered her shawl around her shoulders"pull - apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion; "Pull the rope"; "Pull the handle towards you"; "pull the string gently"; "pull the trigger of the gun"; "pull your knees towards your chin"
	8.	gather - look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"shell - look for and collect shells by the seashore
	9.	gather - increase or develop; "the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed"gainincrease - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"

gather

verb1. congregate, assemble, get together, collect, group, meet, mass, rally, flock, come together, muster, convene, converge, rendezvous, foregather In the evenings, we gathered round the fire and talked.
congregate separate, scatter, disperse2. assemble, group, collect, round up, marshal, bring together, muster, convene, call together He called to her to gather the children together.
assemble separate, scatter, disperse, diffuse, dissipate3. collect, assemble, accumulate, round up, mass, heap, marshal, bring together, muster, pile up, garner, amass, stockpile, hoard, stack up She started gathering up her things.4. pick, harvest, pluck, reap, garner, glean The people lived by fishing, gathering nuts and fruits, and hunting.5. build up, rise, increase, grow, develop, expand, swell, intensify, wax, heighten, deepen, enlarge, thicken Storm clouds were gathering in the distance.6. muster, collect, assemble, summon, call up, marshal, call together You must gather your strength for the journey.7. understand, believe, hear, learn, assume, take it, conclude, presume, be informed, infer, deduce, surmise, be led to believe I gather his report is highly critical of the project.8. fold, tuck, pleat, ruffle, pucker, shirr Gather the skirt at the waist.

gather

verb1. To collect (something) bit by bit:cull, extract, garner, glean, pick up.2. To bring together so as to increase in mass or number:accrue, accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, collect, cumulate, garner, hive, pile up, roll up.3. To collect ripe crops:crop, garner, harvest, pick, reap.4. To bring together:assemble, call, cluster, collect, congregate, convene, convoke, get together, group, muster, round up, summon.5. To come together:assemble, cluster, collect, congregate, convene, forgather, get together, group, muster.6. To arrive at (a conclusion) from evidence or reasoning:conclude, deduce, deduct, draw, infer, judge, understand.

Translations

聚集采集打褶推测皱褶

gather

(ˈgӕðə) verb1. to (cause to) come together in one place. A crowd of people gathered near the accident. (使)聚集 聚集2. to learn (from what has been seen, heard etc). I gather you are leaving tomorrow. 猜想，推測 推测3. to collect or get. He gathered strawberries from the garden; to gather information. 採集，收集 采集4. to pull (material) into small folds and stitch together. She gathered the skirt at the waist. 將(布料)褶起並縫合 打褶 noun a fold in material, a piece of clothing etc. (布料、衣服的)褶子 皱褶ˈgathering noun a meeting of people. a family gathering. 集會，聚會 集会gather round to come together around a person, thing etc. Will everyone please gather round? 靠攏並圍在(某人或某物)周圍 聚拢并围在（某人或某物）周围 gather together to come or bring together, in a group. He gathered his books and papers together. 聚集成一群，收集在一起 聚集，收集在一起

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