英语词汇“gather”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	gather
释义	gath·er I. \ˈgathə(r), ˈgeth- sometimes ˈgȧth-\ verb (gathered ; gathered ; gathering \-th(ə)riŋ\ ; gathers) Etymology: Middle English gaderen, from Old English gadrian, gaderian; akin to Old Frisian gaderia to gather, Middle Low German gadderen to gather, Middle High German gatern to unite, Old Frisian gadia — more at good *transitive verb* 1. a. : to bring together into a crowd, group, body, or mass : concentrate, collect < the balloon start had gathered a little crowd of people — H.G.Wells > < reformers gathering their forces against corrupt city administrations — American Guide Series: New York City > < gather a supply of firewood > < gathering the frightened children about her > b. (1) : to draw up or together : accumulate (2) : to gain gradually with steady increase or acceleration < art will gather social purpose — J.T.Farrell > < a movement gathering force > < the car gathered speed > c. : to collect (melted glass) on the end of a tube for samples or for blowing 2. a. : pick, pluck, harvest < gathered a bunch of flowers > < gathering walnuts > b. : to cull, take, pick up, receive, or appropriate by or as if by picking or harvesting < many souvenirs … gathered from all parts of the world — American Guide Series: Maine > < the vigilantes gathered up Plummer and his gang and hanged them — Seth Agnew > < gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life — Felix Frankfurter > c. : to accumulate and place in order or readiness for being used or carried — often used with up < he gathered up his tools > d. : to assemble in sequence (the signatures and inserts of a volume) for binding e. (1) chiefly Britain : to scoop up (as a rolling ball) neatly off the ground (2) : to catch (a baseball) on the fly — usually used with in < the shortstop easily gathered in the soft liner > 3. : to attract or serve as a center of attraction for : cause or facilitate a bringing together or accumulating of < the past … gathers round it all the inscrutable mystery of life and death — G.M.Trevelyan > < Puritanism … gathered about it … all the forces of unrest — V.L.Parrington > < an age devoted to ornate decor that gathered dust and moths > 4. : to effect the collection of (as tax, tribute, dues, contributions) < gather tax moneys for the king > 5. a. : to summon up : muster together : accumulate : bring together and coordinate < his poor, shattered soul had gathered to itself just then a great courage — Liam O'Flaherty > < we must … get out of the tumult of the market place to gather our thoughts — M.R.Cohen > < reporters gathering the news of the campaign > b. : to prepare (as oneself) by mustering strength and force < the victim had been gathering himself to run across the court — T.B.Costain > 6. a. : to bring or draw together the parts of : collect and compress by or as if by grasping and holding < gathered her long full skirt in each hand and sprang across the little stream > b. : to draw (as a covering) over, about, or close to something < seizing his hat and gathering his cloak about him > < gathered the bedclothes up to his neck > c. : to pull (fabric) along one or two lines of stitching so as to draw into puckers : plait < gather the neckline and stitch on the binding > d. (1) : to haul in or take up (as slack of a rope) (2) : to begin or increase movement in (a way or direction specified) < the ship gathered headway > e. : to cause (opposite walls of masonry) to approach or come together (as in the abrupt narrowing of the upper part of a fireplace to meet the flue) 7. : to conclude on reflection : draw as an inference : deduce, infer : presume to be the case < I gather that the meeting was not a success > 8. : collect 5a *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to come together in a body, group, crowd, cluster, heap, or mass < a crowd quickly gathered and shouted for a speech — American Guide Series: Maryland > < the swallows … are gathering to fly farther away — Padraic Colum > < the way the wrinkles gathered about his merry gray eyes — Ellen Glasgow > b. : to accumulate, cluster, or form around a focus of attraction < a romance … gathers round the wedge-shaped or cuneiform characters — Edward Clodd > < the unpopularity that gathered about the name of Mather — V.L.Parrington > 2. a. : to enlarge in coming to a head : swell and fill with pus : head < the boil is gathering > b. : to become concentrated or intense : grow, increase < where the cold gathered more thickly — E.H.Collis > < a time when the gathering dangers were only too apparent — Sir Winston Churchill > 3. : to become drawn or compressed together often in folds or creases < a coat that gathers over the shoulders > 4. of a ship : to make progress : approach < the boat continued to gather toward the southeast > < swiftly gathering on the ship ahead > Synonyms: collect, assemble, congregate: gather, a general term, indicates the fact of bringing or coming together and lacks much especial connotation < it was customary for merchants to gather outside to discuss business affairs — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > It may suggest a picking, culling, or harvesting < a trading post to collect goods already gathered by the native population — R.A.Billington > collect is often interchangeable with gather but may imply greater purposiveness and more careful selectivity < Columbus was forced to collect the natives one night and threaten to darken the moon — Stringfellow Barr > < the mass of movable wealth collected in the shops and warehouses of London alone — T.B.Macaulay > Used in reference to persons coming together, assemble may stress a definite aim or purpose and may suggest greater unity or organization in the group formed; used in reference to things brought together, it suggests a logical ordering or uniting < Flandrau … assembled a force of volunteers at St. Peter and hastened to the relief of the village — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election — U.S. Constitution > < assembling and interpreting statistics on the nation's war programs — Current Biography > congregate may apply to a gregarious flocking together of similar types < the drivers congregated in saloons around the square — Green Peyton > < the older people sat rather stiffly in the corners, the young men congregated uneasily in impermanent groups — Irwin Shaw > Synonym: see in addition infer, reap. II. noun (-s) 1. : something that is gathered < the final gather of the harvest > < smoothing out the gathers of thought between her brows > as a. : a puckering in cloth made by gathering — usually used in plural < adjust the gathers evenly and sew on the waistband > b. : a mass of molten glass collected on a gathering iron for use in glassblowing c. : a lightly collected stance of a horse 2. : an act or instance of gathering < made a final gather of the trash before they left the picnic grounds > especially West : a roundup of cattle 3. : the soffit of masonry formed by gathering
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