How to pronounce gather in English
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"To bring together; to collect as a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate."
"To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck."
"To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up."
"To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits as a garment; also to draw together as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as to gather a ruffle."
"To derive or deduce as an inference; to collect as a conclusion from circumstances that suggest or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude."
"To gain; to win."
"To bring together or nearer together in masonry as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue or the like."
"To haul in; to take up; as to gather the slack of a rope."
"To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate."
"To grow larger by accretion; to increase."
"To concentrate; to come to a head as a sore and generate pus; as a boil has gathered."
"To collect or bring things together."
"A plait or fold in cloth made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker."
"The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward."
"The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather v. t. 7."