gather

Definitions


[ˈɡaðə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- come together; assemble or accumulate
(e.g: as soon as a crowd gathered, the police came)

- bring together and take in from scattered places or sources
(e.g: information that we have gathered about people)

- increase in (speed, force, etc.)
(e.g: the destroyer gathered speed)

- infer; understand
(e.g: I gathered that they were old friends)

- summon up (a mental or physical attribute) for a purpose
(e.g: she lay gathering her thoughts together)

- draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it
(e.g: the front is gathered at the waist)


Phrases:
- gather way

Origin:
Old English gaderian, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaderen, also to together


[ˈɡaðə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a part of a garment that is gathered


Phrases:
- gather way

Origin:
Old English gaderian, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaderen, also to together




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