Definition of Gather

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Gather

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.

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Gather Quotations

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
Dale Carnegie

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore

Gather Translations

gather in Afrikaans is saamgaan, bymekaarbring, versamel
gather in Danish is slutte, samle, forsamles
gather in Dutch is deduceren, afleiden, abstraheren
gather in French is cueillent, ramassez, ramassons, amassons, amassez
gather in German is erfassen, versammeln, sammeln, sammeln
gather in Latin is recolligo
gather in Portuguese is recolhimento, colher
gather in Spanish is cosechar

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