Definition of Gathering

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Gathering

of Gather

The act of collecting or bringing together.

That which is gathered, collected, or brought together

A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.

A charitable contribution; a collection.

A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

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Gathering Quotations

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
Dick Cheney

It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
Chevy Chase

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.
Gustav Klimt

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
Aaron Brown

The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.
Jim Gerlach

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.
John Nelson Darby

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
Bob Graham

Gathering Translations

gathering in Afrikaans is vergadering
gathering in Danish is forsamling
gathering in Dutch is bijeenkomst, meeting, samenkomst
gathering in Finnish is kokous
gathering in French is cueillant, amassant, ramassage, ramassant
gathering in German is Sammeln, scharend, Erfassung
gathering in Latin is gelamen
gathering in Norwegian is sammenkomst
gathering in Portuguese is recolhimento

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