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US
/ˈɡæðɝɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɡˈæðəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈæðəɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a group of persons together in one place
- the act of gathering something
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the social act of assembling
they demanded the right of assembly - sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
How To Use gathering In A Sentence
- 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
- She watched Luke read it, saw the gathering frown carve two grooves over his aquiline nose.
- Al – Gundubah (“one locust-man”) smites off the head of his mother’s servile murderer and cries, I have taken my blood-revenge upon this traitor slave’” (Lane, M.E. chaps. xx iii.) 128 This gathering all the persons upon the stage before the curtain drops is highly artistic and improbable. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- I stood in the doorway for a moment, gathering my energy for polite chitchat. FOOLS GOLD
- Yet Highland culture continues to flourish through the Gaelic language, piping, ceilidhs (informal gatherings with traditional music, dancing and poetry) and a full schedule of Highland games.
- The most striking but by no means the only instances are the hole cut in a page of his novel Albert Angelo and the presentation, in The Unfortunates, of a box containing a bundle of unbound gatherings to be read in random order.
- an amiable gathering
- But sure, they could be more "anti-consumerist" by having a druidical gathering of eight friends in the middle of the forest and a picnic lunch. Love on a farmboy's wages
- And one of the best ways of gathering criminal intelligence is forensics.
- He had described it as ‘a gathering place for computer otaku,’ so I had a negative image about the place before seeing it.
