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Definition: Gather |
GatherNoun1. Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching. 2. The act of gathering something. Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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Synonyms: GatherSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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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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) | |
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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. | ||
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| "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" |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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 |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(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. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | As we gather here tonight, the state of our Union is strong, but our economy is troubled. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We cannot stand by and do nothing while dangers gather. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 59.96% | 830 | 8,455 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 37.59% | 520 | 11,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.38% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,385 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gather | Last name | 170 | 51,721 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gather | 43 | gather lyrics river shall we | 3 |
hank gather | 35 | 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 | ||
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| 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 | 翕 , 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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 French | 900-1400 | coillir, fronce. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de efh ou mhpote sullegonteV ta zizania ekrizwshte ama autoiV ton siton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et ait non ne forte colligentes zizania eradicetis simul cum eis et triticum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa cwæð he ne se þe læs ge þannehwate awertwalien. þanne ge þanne coccelgaderiað. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he seide, Nay, lest perauenture ye in gaderynge taris drawen vp with hem the whete bi the roote. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But 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 English | 1611 | King James | But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But he said, No; lest while ye gather the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But 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. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | Apan siya miingon kanila, `Ayaw lang, kay tingali unya hinoon nga sa inyong pagpangibut sa mga bunglayon mahilakip pagkaibut ang mga trigo. |
| Croatian | A on reèe: 'Ne! Da ne biste sabiruæi kukolj išèupali zajedno s njim i pšenicu. |
| Danish | Men han siger: Nej, for at I ikke, når I sanke Ugræsset sammen, skulle rykke Hveden op tillige med det. |
| Dutch | Maar hij zeide: Neen, opdat gij, het onkruid vergaderende, ook mogelijk met hetzelve de tarwe niet uittrekt. |
| Finnish | Mutta hän sanoi: `En, ettette lustetta kootessanne nyhtäisi sen mukana nisuakin. |
| French | Non, dit-il, de peur qu`en arrachant l`ivraie, vous ne déraciniez en même temps le blé. |
| German | Er sprach: Nein! auf daß ihr nicht zugleich den Weizen mit ausraufet, so ihr das Unkraut ausjätet. |
| Haitian Creole | Li di yo: Non, poko fè sa. Paske, antan n'ap rache move zèb yo, nou ka derasinen mayi a avèk yo tou. |
| Hungarian | Õ 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 Lama | Maka katanya: Jangan, sebab barangkali apabila kamu pungut lalang itu, gandum itu pun tercabut juga sertanya. |
| Italian | No, rispose, perché non succeda che, cogliendo la zizzania, con essa sradichiate anche il grano. |
| Manx Gaelic | As dooyrt eshyn, Cha naill-ym; er aggle ayns gaartlian yn coggyl, dy n'astyrt shiu yn churnaght myrgeddin ass ny fraueyn marish. |
| Maori | A ka mea ia, Kahore; kei hutia ngatahitia te witi ina whakawhaititia nga taru. |
| Norwegian | Men han sa: Nei, forat I ikke også skal rykke op hveten når I sanker ugresset sammen. |
| Portuguese | Ele, 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. |
| Russian | оП ПО УЛБЪБМ: ОЕФ, --ЮФПВЩ, ЧЩВЙТБС РМЕЧЕМЩ, ЧЩ ОЕ ЧЩДЕТЗБМЙ ЧНЕУФЕ У ОЙНЙ РЫЕОЙГЩ, |
| Shuar | `Tutai timiai "Atsá, uwerairap. Yajauch nupa uweaj tukamarum trikiu uweniirum. |
| Spanish | Pero él dijo: 'No; no sea que al recoger la cizaña arranquéis con ella el trigo. |
| Swahili | Naye akawajibu, `La, msije labda mnapokusanya magugu, mkang`oa na ngano pia. |
| Swedish | Men 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. | |
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gather" (pronounced ga"ther) |
| 3 | -a" th er | bather, blather, lather, rather. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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