[
UK
/ɡˈæðɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɡæðɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡæðɝ/ ]
VERB
- draw together into folds or puckers
-
draw and bring closer
she gathered her shawl around her shoulders -
collect or gather
The work keeps piling up
Journals are accumulating in my office -
collect in one place
Let's gather in the dining room
We assembled in the church basement -
get people together
get together all those who are interested in the project
assemble your colleagues
gather the close family members -
increase or develop
the car gathers speed
the peace movement gained momentum -
conclude from evidence
I gather you have not done your homework -
look for (food) in nature
Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall -
assemble or get together
gather some stones
pull your thoughts together
NOUN
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
How To Use gather In A Sentence
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me.
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
- She watched Luke read it, saw the gathering frown carve two grooves over his aquiline nose.
- Despite the lateness of the hour Annabel gathered her skirts and prepared to take a solitary ramble in the garden.
- In an attempt to break the strike, management used megaphones to instruct the afternoon shift, who were gathered in a car park, to return to work or face immediate dismissal.
- All information contained herein is gathered from sources we believe to be reliable.
- Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years. Apologia Diffidentis
- By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
