Gather

Verb

 * 1) To collect; normally separate things.
 * I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
 * She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
 * 1) Especially, to harvest food.
 * We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
 * 1) To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
 * Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
 * 1)  To congregate, or assemble.
 * People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
 * 1) To bring parts of a whole closer.
 * She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
 * 1)  To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
 * A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
 * 1)  To bring stitches closer together.
 * Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
 * If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
 * 1) To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
 * From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
 * I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
 * 1)  To be filled with pus
 * Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
 * 1)  To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

Noun

 * 1) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
 * 2) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
 * 3) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
 * 4)  A piece of molten glass colected on the end of a blowpipe.

Adverbs for Gather
methodically; unpretentiously; seditiously; amiably; posthumously; tenderly; laboriously; noiselessly; cautiously; comprehensively; assiduously; formally; gaily; annually; riotously; raucously; exclusively.

Synonyms for Gather
accumulate, collect, meet, assemble, amass, congregate, pick, group, convoke, convene, muster, cull, herd, contract, marshal, pile, heap, store, acquire, attract, garner, summon, deduce, infer.

Antonyms for Gather
spread,, strew,. scatter, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, apportion, dole, dispose, distribute, allot, dispense, deal, disband, diffuse, assign, adjourn, separate.

Derived terms

 * gathering iron

Thesaurus
accouple, accumulate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, ally, amass, approach, articulate, assemble, associate, assume, await, band, batch, be afraid, be imminent, be in store, believe, blast, blossom, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, bluster, bond, bracket, breeze, breeze up, brew, bridge, bridge over, bring in, bring together, build, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, burgeon, catch, cement, chain, choose, clap together, clot, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, come on, come together, come up, compare, compile, comprise, concatenate, conceive, conclude, confront, conglobulate, conglomerate, congregate, congress, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consider, constrict, contract, convene, converge, copulate, corral, couple, cover, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp, crop, crop herbs, crowd, cull, cumulate, cut, daresay, date, deduce, deduct, deem, deepen, derive, develop, dig, dig up, divine, dog-ear, double, double over, doubling, drag up, draw, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, draw together, draw up, dream, dredge, dredge up, drive together, duplicature, embrace, encompass, encounter, enfold, enlarge, expand, expect, extend, extract, face, fancy, fathom, feel, fetch, find, fish up, flection, flexure, flock together, flounce, flourish, flow together, flute, fold, fold over, follow, forgather, forthcome, freshen, frill, fuse, gang around, gang up, garner, gather around, gather in, gather together, gather up, germinate, get in, get together, glean, glue, grabble, grant, grasp, group, grow, grow up, grub, grub up, hang over, harvest, haul up, hay, heap, heap up, hear, heighten, herd together, hive, horde, hover, huddle, huff, hypertrophy, imagine, impend, include, increase, induce, infer, infold, intensify, interfold, join, judge, juxtapose, knot, lap over, lapel, lappet, lay together, league, learn, let, let be, lie over, link, loom, lower, lump together, make, make out, make up, marry, marshal, mass, match, mature, meet, menace, merge, mill, mobilize, mow, mushroom, muster, near, nut, opine, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overhang, overtop, pair, partner, pick, pick up, piece together, pile, pile up, pipe up, plait, plat, pleat, plica, plicate, plication, plicature, pluck, pluck up, ply, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, procreate, provisionally accept, pucker, puff, pull together, pullulate, purse, put together, quill, rage, raise, rake up, rally, rally around, reap, reap and carry, reason, reason that, reckon, rendezvous, reproduce, repute, rise, roll into one, round up, ruche, ruching, ruff, ruffle, say, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, seethe, select, set in, shirr, shoot up, solder, span, splice, spring up, sprout, sprout up, squall, stack, stick together, stock, stockpile, storm, stream, suppose, surge, surmise, suspect, swarm, take, take as proved, take for, take for granted, take in, take it, take to be, take up, tape, think, threaten, thrive, throng, tie, tower, troop, tuck, turn out, turn over, twill, understand, unify, unite, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, waft, wax, weld, whiff, whiffle, whip in, yoke

Etymology
From gaderen:, from  gaderian:, from, frequentative of , from. Cognate with gaderen:, garen:,  gadern:,  gadia:,  begatten:. Compare also Old English gæd:. More at good.

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: verzamelen, bijeenkomen
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: μαζεύω, συγκεντρώνω
 * Hungarian:, összegyűjt,  összeszed
 * Japanese:, 収集する
 * Kurdish:


 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: aduna; colecta
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: trus
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: toplamak, derlemek,


 * Finnish:
 * Latin:


 * Turkish: toplamak


 * Finnish:
 * Kurdish:


 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: toplamak, biriktirmek


 * Turkish: toplamak


 * Finnish: tehdä johtopäätös
 * French:


 * Romanian:
 * Turkish: çıkarmak, çıkarsamak


 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:


 * Turkish: toplanmak,


 * : rassembler, ramasser, déduire
 * : juntar


 * : samla

Anagrams

 * Gareth
 * rageth