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Definition: Gather

Gather

Noun

1. Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching.

2. The act of gathering something.

Verb

1. Assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together".

2. Collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room".

3. Move together.

4. Collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up".

5. Conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework".

6. Draw fabric together and sew it tightly.

7. Get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members".

8. Believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gather" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Gather

DomainDefinition

Industry

A portion of molten refined glass which is either delivered by feeder or gathered on a gathering iron for fabrication into a glass object. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

To assemble loaded cars from several production points and deliver them tomain haulage for transport to the surface or pit bottom. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Gather

Synonyms: gathering (n), accumulate (v), amass (v), assemble (v), collect (v), conglomerate (v), congregate (v), cumulate (v), foregather (v), forgather (v), garner (v), get together (v), infer (v), meet (v), pile up (v), pucker (v), pull together (v), tuck (v), understand (v). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: drop-ins (industry, metallurgy).
Antonym: spread (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Gather

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Acquisition

Verb: acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect; (assemble); pick, pickup; glean.

Assemblage

Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Convergence

Gather together, unite, concentrate, bring into a focus.

Council

Verb: assemble, gather together, meet (assemblage); confer, caucus, hold council; huddle.

Expansion

Verb: become larger; (large; ); expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun.

Fold

Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Information

Be informed of; know; learn; get scent of, get wind of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear, overhear, understand.

Judgment

Deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet, ween.

Learning

Verb: learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning.

Navigation

Verb: sail; put to sea; (depart); take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters.

Refreshment

Breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather, take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew one's strength; perk up, get one's second wind.

Success

Speed; make progress; (advance); win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper; drive a roaring trade; make profit; (acquire); reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil , gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account; (use).

Taking

Reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather; (get); draw.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Gather

English words defined with "gather": Accoil, accumulate, aggregate, aggregative, amass, assembleBeal, beat up, berry, birdnest, blackberry, bunch, bunch up, bundlecall for, civic center, clam, club, clump, cluster, cockle, collect, combine, come up, community center, confirmation hearing, Conglobulate, conglomerate, corral, Cost free, crowd, crowd together, crumple, cull, cumulateDecerp, drum upforegather, forgather, fort, fort up, FrounceGadre, gather up, gathering place, glean, Glomerateharvest, harvester, house of God, house of prayer, house of worshipintelligenceknitmake, mass, meet, mushroom, muster, muster upnest, nutoysterpearl, pick, pick up, pile up, place of worship, pleat, pluck, pucker, pump room, purserake, rally, reap, reaper, Re-collect, Regather, roundup, ruffle, rumplescrape, scrape up, shape-up, Sheave, shock, skinhead, snail, sponge, summonTo collect one's self, To muster up, to pluck upUpgatherVindemiatewhelk, wrinkle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "gather": archie, ARMHOLE FELLER, HANDSTITCHING MACHINE, ARMOR RECONNAISSANCE SPECIALIST, AUDITOR, DATA PROCESSING, auditor, information systemsball maker, Blackberries, Borehole, bucket-wheel excavator, BUFFING-WHEEL FORMER, AUTOMATICcart round-up, casing runner, CASING-RUNNING-MACHINE TENDER, charter representative, CHILD SUPPORT OFFICER, CODDERS, COMMANDER, INTERNAL AFFAIRS, Community Assistance Panel, COMPARISON SHOPPER, CONTINUOUS-MINING-MACHINE OPERATOR, coordinator of placementdirector of career planning and placement, director of career resources, DIRECTOR OF PLACEMENTEMPLOYEE RELATIONS SPECIALIST, ENERGY RESOURCES PROGRAM ACCOUNTField Division, FIELD HAULER, finishing machine operator, FISHING-TOOL TECHNICIAN, OIL WELL, FORMS ANALYSTgathering arm loader, glass technologist, GLASS-WORKER, PRESSED OR BLOWN, Goodman duckbill loaderhoe scraper, Honeysuckle, Housing Unit Followup, HyacinthJoy loader, JuniperKIDDERLABORER, TREE TAPPING, Landsat, LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT, Lettuce, lie-detection examiner, loader, machine, LOADING-MACHINE OPERATORmachine operator, manager of student placement serviceoil-well-fishing-tool operator, Ophelia, Orange Blossoms Worn at Weddings, OrchardPeas, Pineapple, PLANNER, PROGRAM SERVICES, Plums, POLYGRAPH EXAMINER, PROGRAM COORDINATOR, PULMONARY-FUNCTION TECHNICIAN, pulmonary-function technologisQueen of HeavenRATE CLERK, PASSENGER, RATER, TRAVEL ACCOMMODATIONS, RECORDS-MANAGEMENT ANALYST, REPORTS ANALYST, RESEARCH MECHANIC, risk/safety assessment, routing information protocolsales representative, setting up, Sheba, Shells, shirring tender, SHIRRING-MACHINE OPERATOR, AUTOMATIC, Site Inspection, speed of sound, statistical data bank, statistical databank, stitcher operator, STITCHING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Stone of the Broken Treaty, STRAND-FORMING-MACHINE OPERATOR, SUPERVISOR, SEWING ROOMTAKE-UP OPERATOR, Targeted Extended Search, track cleanersUNATTENDED-GROUND-SENSOR SPECIALISTVioletsWool-gathering. (references)
Etymologies containing "gather": Upgather. (references)

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Modern Usage: Gather

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Family, gather round, I have an announcement to make (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

For God's sake, let us gather 'round tonight and tell tales of great kings (Executive Action; writing credit: Dalton Trumbo)

Years from now, you gather your family together and you tell them the whole story (25th Hour; writing credit: David Benioff)

So gather the kids, the dog, Grandmaand lock them in another room (Moonlighting; writing credit: Eric Blakeney)

You ride on up there, clear out the Iindians, build a little cabin, get a nice fire goin' in the fireplace and me and Jake will gather a herd and then we'll come on up. (Lonesome Dove; writing credit: Larry McMurtry; William D. Wittliff)

Lyrics

Come gather round people wherever you roam ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

We gather in the chapel (Crying in the Chapel; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Hey girls, gather round (Handyman; performing artist: JAMES TAYLOR)

People Gather 'Round Her (Another Day; performing artist: Paul McCartney)

A time to gather stones together ("Turn Turn Turn"; performing artist: The Byrds)

Movie/TV Titles

Gather at the River: A Bluegrass Celebration (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Gather

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gather Together in My Name (reference)

  • I'll Gather My Geese (reference)

  • The Lavender Garden: Beautiful Varieties to Grow and Gather (reference)

  • This is Me - Memories to Gather and Keep (reference)

  • We Gather Together...Now Please Get Lost! (Here's Gilbert) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Gather

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Photo Album: Gather

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A group of scientists (1 woman and 3 men) gather around a microscope to examine a tissue culture flask. These 4 scientists were featured in NCI's "Driving Forces" video. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Gathering commercial oysters is done chiefly by dredging or tonging. However, in certain areas much harvesting was done by oystermen who gather them by hand at low tide. Credit: Fisheries.

Locals gather during the fish transfer to watch and provide a show of support for the restoration project. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. This polychaete, Amphitrite sp., builds and dwells in a tube constructed of mud. The worm's white tentacles, used to build its tube and gather food particles, and red gills can be seen in this photo. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Researcher from Texas Tech University uses Global Positioning System to gather data on benefits of conservation buffers. Study is part of water quality research in Lake Rathbun watershed in southern Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Mother using a nursing breast pump to gather milk for baby for next feeding. Credit: USDA.

Agricultural engineers Clarence Richardson (left) and Daren Harmel inspect a dry stream channel below a 15-foot flume. Several ARS locations use instrumented watersheds to gather a variety of information. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Administering immunocontraception to wild horses after gather, Kamma Mountains, northwest of Lovelock, Nevada, February 1998. Credit: Richard H. Brown.

Wild burros being transported by boat to a holding facility due to the gather being located in the wilderness area. Credit: Lori Cook.

Wild horse gather near Vernal, Utah. Credit: Kelly Rigby.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Gather
 

"Poke salet" by Loretta Humble
Commentary: "Don't know how you really spell it: poke salad, I think. It grows wild, and we gather the first young leaves in the spring, and cook them like other greens, except we par boil them first.(cook a while, then drain the water off and replace.) Later it is wa"

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Gather

AuthorQuotation

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

John Dryden

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Martin Luther

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Publilius Syrus

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Robert Burton

Birds of a feather will gather together.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.

Thomas Paine

I love the man who can smile in trouble, and who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

Virgil

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Wray

They who scatter with one hand, gather with two, not always in coin, but in kind. Nothing multiplies so much as kindness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Gather

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

She wondered what sort of herbs they were, which the old man was so sedulous to gather.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

To gather laurels and to steal the shoes from a dead man, seems to us impossible to the same hand

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Gather

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Scattered along the lymphatic vessels are small, bean-shaped lymph nodes, where immune cells gather and interact. (references)

Physicians also may request radionuclide studies to gather added information about the disease's effect on how the heart is pumping blood. (references)

In other words, the troops (lymphocytes) donÕt hear the message that the war is over. As a result, excess T and B cells gather in the lymph glands, liver and spleen. (references)

Business

This trend will gather momentum as the recession ends and demand growth recovers. (references)

Having someone on the ground in the Osaka region to network and gather information is also important to doing business in this region. (references)

Through its private TV cable system, SAGAR reaches around 900 Farmer Support Centers where farmers looking for information on products and prices for both domestic and foreign markets, gather together. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mauritania

In July the authorities denied university students permission to gather at the university campus to form a student association. (references)

Uzbekistan

On July 2, approximately 1,000 Muslim women attempted to gather near the Tashkent City Hokim, but uniformed police and plainclothes security officers forcibly rounded up and removed the women. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

Although only tested in Moldova, catalog shows may prove to be an effective way for U.S. businesses to gather sale leads. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

The Ombudsman is expected to continue to gather and present evidence on other cases to the Commission. (references)

Brazil

With repique, after attempted escapes or rebellions, employees gather inmates and beat them with iron bars, sticks, and chains. (references)

Georgia

Other legislation permits the MOI to conduct investigations without judicial approval among inmates to gather evidence for trials. (references)

Indigenous People

Sri Lanka

In August 1998, the Government fulfilled a long-standing Vedda demand when the President issued an order granting Veddas the right to hunt and gather in specific protected forest areas. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Religious groups, like all other organizations, must be registered to be recognized or to gather legally. (references)

Afghanistan

A process to convene a Loya Jirga, or Grand Assembly of traditional leaders, which focused on installing Rome-based former King Zahir Shah, continued to gather support but achieved no resolution. (references)

Trade

Chile

This is to help the government gather trade data. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

These efforts are guided regionally by Special Groups for the Eradication of Child Labor, which gather data and develop plans for child labor inspection. (references)

Russia

Reportedly military officers have sent soldiers under their charge to work on farms to gather food for their units or perform work for private citizens or organizations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Gather

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Ann Richards

He'll tell you, you know they've got a network like they've never had before and they're doing da, da, da, da and we're still not big enough to catch Osama bin Laden, I gather.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Gather

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989As we gather here tonight, the state of our Union is strong, but our economy is troubled.

George W. Bush

2001-2005We cannot stand by and do nothing while dangers gather.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Gather

"Gather" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 59.96% of the time. "Gather" is used about 1,385 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)59.96%8308,455
Lexical Verb (base form)37.59%52011,705
Noun (singular)2.38%3360,273
Noun (proper)0.07%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,385N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Gather

The following table summarizes the usage of "gather" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GatherLast name17051,721
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Gather

Expressions using "gather": gather a crop gather a harvest gather around gather dust gather experience gather forces gather from gather head gather in gather in folds gather information gather knowledge gather life's roses gather momentum gather on gather one's breath gather one's brows gather one's wits gather oneself together gather round gather round! gather speed gather strength gather together gather up gather up one's hair gather wood to gather To gather breath to gather ground To gather one's self together To gather way To get or To gather. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "gather": gather-good.

Ending with "gather": re-gather.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gather

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
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per Day

gather

43

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3

hank gather

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d digimon gather

3

shall we gather at the river

14

as gather we

3

gather may rosebud while ye ye

11

gather hank jersey

3

bill gather

10

gather us in

3

gather moss no rolling stone

7

gather opinion people

3

gather hunter

6

eagle gather where

2

gather ye rosebud

6

when rain cloud gather

2

magic the gather

6

gather scatter

2

eagle gather

5

gather music

2

gather hymnal

4

gather photo

2

gather together in my name

3

we gather together

2

data dictionary gather information

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Gather

Language Translations for "gather"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

versamel (collect, pick, pick up), saamgaan (assemble, congregate, go with, meet), bymekaarbring (collect, join, pick, pick up, unite), uithaal (collect, draw out, drive, drive out, express, give, give utterance to, pick, pick up, pull, pull out, utter). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

grumbulloj (accumulate, amalgamate, amass, assemble, clamp, collect, compile, conglomerate, cumulate, get together, heap, hoard, mass, pile, pool, rally, stack, unite), nxjerr përfundim (conclude, infer), ngrys vetullat, mbledh plaga, mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), kuptoj (apprehend, catch, comprehend, cotton on, fathom, figure out, find, get, grasp, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick out, Pierce, see, see through, sense, take, take in, twig on, understand). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نما (develop, expand, flower, grow, increase, prosper, shoot, thrive, unfold), ‏لم (collect, round up), ‏حسب (calculate, cast, cipher, compute, deem, figure, from, in his element, number, on, pursuant to, rank, reason, reckon, score, tally, tell), ‏حشد (assemblage, assemble, boodle, cloud, college, concentrate, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, gathering, horde, host, huddle, legion, loads of, lots of, mob, mobilize, multitude, oodles, pack, pile up, press, rabble, recall, regiment, throng), ‏تجمع (aggregation, assemblage, assemble, collect, concentrate, concourse, congregation, converge, convergence, flock, gathering, get together, group, grouping, huddle, league, mass, muster, organization, pile up, pool, press, rally, reassemble), ‏سال (flow, flux, liquefy, liquidate, pour, run, seep, shed, smear, stream, trill), ‏طية (flexure, fold, lap, lappet, plait, plica, queue, recess, tuck, wrap), ‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏جنى (earn, reap), ‏إلتأم (coalesce, convene, heal, rally, skin, unite), ‏إستقطب (polarize), ‏إستجمع, ‏أخذ (catch, occupy, pick, reception, take). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), струпвам (amass, load, lumber, mass, rake together, rake up), свързвам (ally, articulate, associate, bandage, bond, brace, bracket, catenate, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, construe, couple, interconnect, join, knot, lash, link, marry, mate, pack, piece out, piece together, put through, run on, truss, weld), трупам (cluster, congregate, heap, hive, lay up, pile, roll up, run, run up, settle, shovel, store, treasure up), гноя (fester, matter, rankle, run, suppurate), набирам (compose, dial, maturate, muster, muster up, pucker, quill, raise, set, set up, shirr), заключавам (conclude, educe, induce, infer, reason), бера (pick, pluck, suppurate), прибирам (get in, hive, house, pack away, pouch, pound, put away, put up, remove, retract, round up, take in, truss, unship). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

聚集 (assemble). (various references)

   

Czech

  

shromáždit (amass, assemble, bunch together, compile, congregate, rally, round up), nabrat (draw, scoop up, take up, tuck), podbírat se, podebírat se, posbírat (gather up, scoop up), sbírat (colect, collect, glean, pick, save), èesat (comb, pluck), shluknout se (assemble, crowd, crowd round, crowd together), zrát (age, ripe, ripen), shromáždit se (assemble, collect, concentrate on smth., congregate, convene, crowd, flog together, get together, group, rally, troop), sklízet (crop, gather in, harvest, reap), stahovat se, trhat (blast, mammock, pick, pick(up), pluck, scarify, tug, worry), usoudit (infer), záhyb (crease, Crinkle, fold, meander, plait, ply, pucker, roll, ruck, twirl, wrinkle), sebìhnout se. (various references)

   

Danish

  

slutte (abstract, deduce, induce, infer), samle (collect, pick up), forsamles (assemble, congregate, meet). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

deduceren (abstract, deduce), afleiden (abduce, abduct, abstract, deduce, derive, distract, divert, entertain, extract, induce, infer), abstraheren (abstract, abstraction, deduce). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kunveni (assemble, congregate, meet), konkludi (abstract, induce, infer), kolekti (collect, pick up), dedukti (abstract, deduce). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

savna (collect, pick up), koma til niðurløgu (abstract, induce, infer), koma saman (assemble, congregate, meet), hittast (assemble, congregate, meet). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نتیجه گرفتن (Conclude, Deduce, Derive), گردکردن (Agglomerate, Conglobate, Globe, Roll), گردامدن (Agglomerate, Assemble, Constringe, Convene, Flock, Herd, Rally, Ring), جمع کردن (Add, Agglomerate, Aggregate, Callup, Cluster, Collect, Constrict, Convene, Eke, Gross, Immobilize, In, Purse, Reef, Rollup, Total, Tote), جمع شدن (Aggregate, Assemble, Backlog, Beehive, Congregate, Constringe, Drift, Flock, Group, Herd, Muster, Retract, Shrink, Snuggle, Twitch), استباطکردن , بزرگ شدن (Amplify, Grow, Lump). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kerätä (amass, assemble, collect, pick up). (various references)

   

French

  

recueillir (garner), rassembler, ramasser, réunir. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

gearkomme (assemble, congregate, meet), sammelje (collect, pick up). (various references)

   

German

  

sammeln (assemble, collect, compile, gathering, get together, glean, pick, pick up, pile up, rally, save, stack, to collect, to gather, to glean), zusammentragen (carry together, collate, collation, collect, collect together, compile, to carry together), versammeln (assemble, congregate, convene, gather together, muster, rally, to assemble, to congregate, to convene, to gather). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαζεύω (collect, furl, marsh, mass, muster, pick, pick up, rasie an army, shrink, wipe up). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ללקוט (assemble, collect, compile), ללקט (collect, compile, cull, glean, pick), לקבץ (aggregate, assembly, bunch, collect, muster, rally), לאגור (accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, lay up, stash, stock up, store), לארות (pick, pluck), לאסוף (collect, rake, reap, remove, round up, take in, withdraw), לכנוס (assemble, collect, congregate, convene), לכנס (aggregate, assemble, convoke, muster, rally, round up, summon), להתקהל (congregate, crowd, mass, mob, swarm, throng, troop), להתקבץ (assemble, bunch, mass), להקבץ, להבין (apprehend, comprehend, follow, grasp, know, make out, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, take, take in, understand), לגבוב (accumulate, collect), לצבור (accumulate, amass, collect, heap up, pile up, rake, stack, stash, store), אסף (collect, collection, compilation). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyûlik (rally), gyûjt (collect), megtud (ascertain, come to know, hear, learn, to ascertain, to come to know, to find out). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

gotes (pluck), riung (gathering, range of maountains), mengumpulkan (agglomerate, aggregate, amass, annunciate), berkumpul (agglomerate, assemble, cohere, congregate). (various references)

   

Irish

  

bailigh. (various references)

   

Italian

  

raccogliere (collect, collect one's thoughts, crop, harvest, harvests, make a collection of, pick, pick up, pull, raise, rally, reap, recollect, save, scoop, scoop up, sweep up, take in), riunire (assemble, bring together again, collect together, come together again, meet, meet together, put together, rally, reunite), radunare (amass, assemble, collect, convene, group, muster, rally, recollect, round up), dedurre (abstract, conclude, deduce, deduct, elicit, induce, infer). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

, ギターの弦 (boy, fee paid to performing artists, gadget bag, gag, gal, gallery, gammon, gap, gathered skirt, gibberellin, gift, gift card, gift certificate, gift check, gift coupon, gift package, gift shop, gimmick, give up, give-and-take, guarantee, guignol, Guiness Book of Records, guitar amplifier, guitar magazine, guitar string, guitar synthesizer, guitarist, gypsum, kind of Indian spice, male waiter, teenage mother). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きゅう (ball, being absent, being finished, ex-, gift, globe, nine, rest, retire, sleep, sphere, steep, sudden, taking a day off, urgent, wage), ギャザー . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

집결 (gathering). (various references)

   

Malay

  

mengumpulkan (collect, pick up), kumpulkan (collect, pick up). (various references)

   

Manx

  

teiy (ballot, balloting, choice, choose, cream, cream best, cull, discrimination, division; tomahawk, highlight; selection, pick, pick over, poll; prime, select, vote), ingyraght (gathering, purulence), cruinnaghey (assemblage, assemblage persons, beseige, congregation, enclose, focus, head, hive, huddle, mass, raise, round, screw up, sum up, troop), chymsaghey (accumulate, pick off, round up, scrape together), chymsagh (hoarding, saving), chaglym (accumulate, assemble, collection, conclusion, deduce, whip round; effort). (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

-eròroks (to gather). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

samle (accumulate), plukke, forstå (figure out, get, grasp, realise, realize, understand), øke (boost, enhance, increase). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

konklú (abstract, induce, infer), kolektá (collect, pick up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

athergay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

colher (berry, collect, crop, drag out, garner, gather a crop, gather a harvest, harvest, pick, pick off, pick up, pluck, pull, reap, reap a harvest, spoon, tear off). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

culege (collect, compose, crop, cull, glean, mow, pick, pick up, pluck, reap, set up, take up), colecta (bag, collect, pick up), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

radunar (to gather). (various references)

   

Romany

  

khidàva (to gather). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

собирать (amass, assemble, build up, collect, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, erect, get together, levy, make up, pick, pick up, raise, scoop in, scoop up). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tionail (assemble, come together, glean), tàrmaich (be the source of, settle), solair (procure, provide). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

phutha (to gather). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zgrnuti (rake together, rake up), zaključiti (close, conclude, induce, infer, sign, take out), skupljati (collect, glean, mass), skupiti (aggregate, amass, assemble, collect, congregate, constrict, contract, lay up, levy, pucker, raise, rake, shrink, treasure), sakupiti (assemble, collect, pick), okupiti (reassemble, round up), brati (pick). (various references)

   

Sotho

  

hona (gather around). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

recoger (bring in, catch, collect, fold, furl, garner, gather in, gather up, get, get in, glean, harvest, lay hold of, lift, pick, pick up, rake in, reap, reclaim, repossession, scavenge, scoop up, secure, take, take in, take up), decudir (abstract, deduce, induce, infer). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

dyunta (collect, pick up). (various references)

   

Swazi

  

kú-bútsa (to gather). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

samla (assemble, collect, gathers, get together, glean, hive, muster, pick up, rally, store up, whip up), samlas (assembles, be gathered, collect, congregate, cumulate, forgather, hive, muster), plocka (cull, deplume, Peck, pick, pluck), inhämta (catch up), församla (assemble, collect, congregate, pick up). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เก็บเกี่ยว, ชุมนุม (meet, rally), รวมความคิด. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

y (crunch), toplanmak (assemble, prepare), яygnamak (collect, concentrate), яygmak (pick), ьяюьrmek (collect), зцplemek (collect, pick up). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

урожай (bearing, crop, harvest, plant, yield), робити висновок (conclude, deduce, draw a conclusion, educe, elicit, infer), накопичувати (accumulate, amass, cumulate, heap, heap up, hoard, hoard up, pile up, put aside, save), збір (assemblage, assembly, call over, capitation, meet, muster, rollcall, round up, turn out), збиратися (agglomerate, amass, assemble, band, be about, congregate, convene, forgather, get ready, get together, make ready, meet, muster, pick oneself up, rally), збирати (agglomerate, amass, assemble, bag, canvass, carry, collect, compile, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, gather in, levy, make up, muster, pick, pick in, summon, win). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

hel (chase, collect, drive), cynnull (assemble, collect), crawni (suppurate), casglu (accumulate, amass, collect, infer), aeddfedu (ripen). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Gather

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

circumlegentes, circumstabant, circumstans, circumstante, circumstantes, circumstantibus, circumstarent, circumstat, circumsteterunt, coire, collecta, collectae, collectam, collecti, collectis, collecto, collectos, collectum, collectus, collegerimus, collegeris, collegerunt, collegi, collegissent, collegisset, collegisti, collegit, colleximus, collexistis, colligam, colligant, colligas, colligat, colligatis, colligatur, colligebant, colligebat, colligendas, colligendi, colligendum, colligens, colligent, colligentem, colligentes, colligentur, colligere, colligerent, colligeret, colligeris, colliges, colligesque, colliget, colligetur, colligimus, colligit, colligite, colligitur, colligo, colligunt, colliguntur, conferebant, conferens, conferentes, conferetis, conferetur, conferre, conferretur, confers, confertis, conlata, conligare, contulerunt, contuli, contulit, gregem, greges, gregesque, lecta, lectae, lectis, lecto, lectum, lecturi, lectus, legant, legatur, lege, legebant, legebantur, legebat, legebatur, legens, legentem, legentes, legentibus, legentium, legere, legeris, legerit, legerunt, leges, legesque, leget, legetque, legi, legis, legissent, legisset, legisti, legistis, legit, legite, legitque, legitur, percipere, recolligo, seceleg, vindemia, vindemiant, vindemiasti, vindemiata, vindemiator, vindemiaveris, vindemiaverunt, vindemiavit, vindemies, vindemiet. (various references)

Old French900-1400

coillir, fronce. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Gather

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 13, Verse 29
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintO de efh ou mhpote sullegonteV ta zizania ekrizwshte ama autoiV ton siton
Latin405VulgateEt ait non ne forte colligentes zizania eradicetis simul cum eis et triticum
Old English990West Saxonþa cwæð he ne se þe læs ge þannehwate awertwalien. þanne ge þanne coccelgaderiað.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd he seide, Nay, lest perauenture ye in gaderynge taris drawen vp with hem the whete bi the roote.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleBut he sayde nay lest whill ye go aboute to wede out ye tares ye plucke vppe also wt them ye wheate by ye rottes:
Jacobean English1611King JamesBut he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Victorian English1833WebsterBut he said, No; lest while ye gather the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Basic English1964OgdenBut he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Gather

LanguageMatthew Chapter 13, Verse 29
CebuanoApan siya miingon kanila, `Ayaw lang, kay tingali unya hinoon nga sa inyong pagpangibut sa mga bunglayon mahilakip pagkaibut ang mga trigo.
CroatianA on reèe: 'Ne! Da ne biste sabiruæi kukolj išèupali zajedno s njim i pšenicu.
DanishMen han siger: Nej, for at I ikke, når I sanke Ugræsset sammen, skulle rykke Hveden op tillige med det.
DutchMaar hij zeide: Neen, opdat gij, het onkruid vergaderende, ook mogelijk met hetzelve de tarwe niet uittrekt.
FinnishMutta hän sanoi: `En, ettette lustetta kootessanne nyhtäisi sen mukana nisuakin.
FrenchNon, dit-il, de peur qu`en arrachant l`ivraie, vous ne déraciniez en même temps le blé.
GermanEr sprach: Nein! auf daß ihr nicht zugleich den Weizen mit ausraufet, so ihr das Unkraut ausjätet.
Haitian CreoleLi di yo: Non, poko fè sa. Paske, antan n'ap rache move zèb yo, nou ka derasinen mayi a avèk yo tou.
HungarianÕ pedig monda: Nem. Mert a mikor összeszeditek a konkolyt, azzal együtt netalán a búzát is kiszaggatjátok.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari'Tidak,' jawabnya, 'sebab kalau alang-alang itu dicabut, nanti gandumnya turut tercabut.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka katanya: Jangan, sebab barangkali apabila kamu pungut lalang itu, gandum itu pun tercabut juga sertanya.
ItalianNo, rispose, perché non succeda che, cogliendo la zizzania, con essa sradichiate anche il grano.
Manx GaelicAs dooyrt eshyn, Cha naill-ym; er aggle ayns gaartlian yn coggyl, dy n'astyrt shiu yn churnaght myrgeddin ass ny fraueyn marish.
MaoriA ka mea ia, Kahore; kei hutia ngatahitia te witi ina whakawhaititia nga taru.
NorwegianMen han sa: Nei, forat I ikke også skal rykke op hveten når I sanker ugresset sammen.
PortugueseEle, porém, disse: Não; para que, ao colher o joio, não arranqueis com ele também o trigo.   
Rumanian,Nu`, le -a zis el, ,ca nu cumva, smulgknd neghina, sq smulgeyi wi grkul kmpreunq cu ea.
RussianоП ПО УЛБЪБМ: ОЕФ, --ЮФПВЩ, ЧЩВЙТБС РМЕЧЕМЩ, ЧЩ ОЕ ЧЩДЕТЗБМЙ ЧНЕУФЕ У ОЙНЙ РЫЕОЙГЩ,
Shuar`Tutai timiai "Atsá, uwerairap. Yajauch nupa uweaj tukamarum trikiu uweniirum.
SpanishPero él dijo: 'No; no sea que al recoger la cizaña arranquéis con ella el trigo.
SwahiliNaye akawajibu, `La, msije labda mnapokusanya magugu, mkang`oa na ngano pia.
SwedishMen han svarade: 'Nej; ty då kunden I rycka upp vetet jämte ogräset, när I samlen detta tillhopa.
Uma"Na'uli' pue' bonea: `Neo', apa' ane niwuka kowo' -na, nipoiwukai mpai' pae-na.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Gather

Derivations

Words beginning with "gather": gathered, gatherer, gatherers, gathering, gatherings, gathers. (additional references)

Words ending with "gather": foregather, forgather, ingather, regather, upgather. (additional references)

Words containing "gather": foregathered, foregathering, foregathers, forgathered, forgathering, forgathers, ingathered, ingathering, ingatherings, ingathers, regathered, regathering, regathers, upgathered, upgathering, upgathers, woolgatherer, woolgatherers, woolgathering, woolgatherings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Gather" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agatho, ather, Gadhara, gadter, gaher, Gahr, Gahrr, gaither, gaithert, gamter, Gantzer, Garther, gater, gath, gatha, gathe, gatheri, Gathorne, gathre, gatter, gethe, gether, getihu, getthe, Ghabhar, Ghaghara, Gibtner, Ginther, gither, Githii, Gittler, goathe, Gotcher, gother, grather, Graythorp, guater, Guyther, Gwaihir, Gytha, jathuk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gather"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "gather" (pronounced ga"ther)
3-a" th erbather, blather, lather, rather.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Gather

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-r-t"

-1 letter: earth, garth, gerah, grate, great, hater, heart, rathe, retag, targe, terga.

-2 letters: ager, eath, gate, gear, geta, ghat, grat, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, rage, rate, rath, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae.

-3 letters: age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, erg, eta, eth, gae, gar, gat, get, hae, hag, hat, her, het.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-r-t"
 

+1 letter: gathers.

 

+2 letters: barghest, daughter, earthing, gathered, gatherer, goatherd, graphite, hearting, heritage, ingather, laughter, lethargy, litharge, regather, retaught, shortage, thirlage, upgather.

 

+3 letters: barghests, breathing, daughters, draughted, earthling, fathering, forgather, fraughted, gatherers, gathering, gearshift, ghastlier, gigahertz, goatherds, godfather, grapeshot, graphites, haltering, haughtier, hectogram, heritages, hermitage, ingathers, larghetto, lathering, laughters, lethargic, litharges, megahertz, naughtier, nightmare, nightwear, outcharge, regathers, reheating, shortages, slaughter, telegraph, thirlages, threading, threaping, threating, upgathers, wreathing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Frequency
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Bible Trace
21. Derivations
22. Rhymes
23. Anagrams
24. Bibliography


  

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