| 单词 | gather |
| 释义 | gather (once / 51 pages) 1vn 2vn 3v 4v Gather is a verb with a many related meanings, most involving drawing together or assembling something. You may gather your socks into the laundry bag, or you may gather your thoughts by making a list. Gather often is used to describe bringing people together for some purpose, like the students who gather in the hallway awaiting an announcement. Gather can also refer to an increase or gain, like when you gather speed and go faster on your bike. Gather can describe coming to a conclusion or an understanding. After listening to your brother's comments and watching him pack up his video games, you may gather that he isn't going to be around for dinner. WORD FAMILYgather: foregather, gathered, gatherer, gathering, gathers+/foregather: foregathered, foregathering, foregathers/gathered: gatheredest, ungathered/gatherer: gatherers/gathering: gatherings, ingathering/ingathering: ingatherings USAGE EXAMPLESNext to the construction area of the new Highway 520 bridge, birds still gather despite the high-decibel sounds from the work. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Once the workers gathered around, he detonated the vehicle. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) On November 14th like-minded souls will gather in Paris for the first international conference dedicated to finding ways for countries to co-ordinate internet policies. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) 1 1v assemble or get together gather some stones Syn|Ant|Hypo collect, garner, pull together distribute, spread distribute or disperse widely marshal, mobilise, mobilize, summon make ready for action or use rakegather with a rake glean, harvest, reapgather, as of natural products clubgather into a club-like mass hivegather into a hive salvage, scavengecollect discarded or refused material come up, muster, muster up, rally, summongather or bring together round upseek out and bring together cull, pick, plucklook for and gather nutgather nuts snailgather snails bird-nest, birdnestgather birdnests nestgather nests oystergather oysters, dig oysters spongegather sponges, in the ocean pearlgather pearls, from oysters in the ocean clamgather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean shockcollect or gather into shocks heap up, pile up, stack uparrange into piles or stacks whelkgather whelk cutreap or harvest mushroompick or gather mushrooms berrypick or gather berries 2v get people together gather the close family members Syn|Hypo assemble, get together make form by assembling individuals or constituents 3v collect in one place Let's gather in the dining room Syn|Hypo|Hyper assemble, foregather, forgather, meet come across, encounter, meet, run across, run into, see come together aggroup, group form a group or group together meetmeet by design; be present at the arrival of congregatecome together, usually for a purpose hivemove together in a hive or as if in a hive fort, fort upgather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense convenemeet formally clump, cluster, constellate, flockcome together as in a cluster or flock crowd, crowd togetherto gather together in large numbers convergemove or draw together at a certain location turn outcome and gather for a public event caucusmeet to select a candidate or promote a policy clubgather and spend time together team, team upform a team embedattach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war gang, gang upact as an organized group pooljoin or form a pool of people brigadeform or unite into a brigade meet up withmeet with by appointment massjoin together into a mass or collect or form a mass reconvenemeet again sitbe in session huddle, huddle togethercrowd or draw together bunch, bunch together, bunch upform into a bunch overcrowdcrowd together too much pour, pullulate, stream, swarm, teemmove in large numbers herdmove together, like a herd concentratedraw together or meet in one common center jam, mob, pack, pile, throngpress tightly together or cram interact act together or towards others or with others 4v collect or gather Syn|Hypo|Hyper accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up backlog accumulate and create a backlog accretegrow or become attached by accretion driftbe piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current increase become bigger or greater in amount 5v look for (food) in nature Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall Hypo|Hyper shell look for and collect shells by the seashore look for, search, seek try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of 6n the act of gathering something 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper gathering centralisation, centralization gathering to a center harvest, harvest home, harvestingthe gathering of a ripened crop hayingthe harvesting of hay aggregation, assembling, collecting, collection the act of gathering something together 1v draw and bring closer she gathered her shawl around her shoulders Hyper pull apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion 2v draw together into folds or puckers Syn|Hyper pucker, tuck run up, sew, sew together, stitch fasten by sewing; do needlework 3n sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching 3Syn|Hyper gathering sewing, stitchery needlework on which you are working with needle and thread v increase or develop 4the car gathers speed Syn|Hyper gain increase become bigger or greater in amount v conclude from evidence I gather you have not done your homework Hyper conclude, reason, reason out decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion |
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