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Collect in one place
Answer for the clue "Collect in one place ", 9 letters:
gathering
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a meeting," mid-12c., from late Old English gaderung , verbal noun from gather .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A meeting or get-together; a party or social function. 2 A group of people or things. 3 ((term: bookbinding)) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half. 4 A charitable contribution; a collection. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, n. The act of collecting or bringing together. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. A charitable contribution; a collection. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an ...
Usage examples of gathering.
Weavers travelled from town to village to city, appearing at festivals or gatherings, teaching the common folk to recognise the Aberrant in their midst, urging them to give up the creatures that hid among them.
The gathering clouds parted briefly and a crescent moon flooded the bay with a brilliant, achromatic light.
Clerval, the actor, had been gathering together a company of actors at Paris, and making her acquaintance by chance and finding her to be intelligent, he assured her that she was a born actress, though she had never suspected it.
Under their stimulating influence the Convention was eager to begin the balloting, but the gathering shades of evening compelled an adjournment to the next morning.
The Adjutors had been winning steadily for the past thirty years, gathering more and more power and influence to themselves.
Such was the way of the Mother, Aganippe thought, sending us forth from the womb, then gathering us back to her when we are done.
It was so similar to agrimony that she thought of it as a variation of that herb -- but one of the other medicine women at the Clan Gathering had called it boneset, and used it for that purpose.
Their aircraft, milling about north of Chiang Mai, stood out clearly on radar, and his scouts had reported Thai airmobile forces gathering several kilometers to the southeast.
Gathering up the dishes, Alec carried them away and returned with a mug of water and a bit of bread.
Thero glared at Alec for an instant, then began gathering his scattered documents.
Gathering up Alise in his arms, he hastened down the tunnel in the direction of the river.
They were employed by his agency, but he frequently sent them off on detached duty all over the country, to raid or spy in every known political or ameliorative gathering.
Freyja was in the sacred woods gathering herbs, and Anomia, who could have done something to stop it, stood in her doorway, laughing and deriving obvious pleasure from seeing the men pounding one another.
The reason the honey was so universally prized did not lie in the flowers the bees visited, but in the fact that Hymettan apiarists never smoked their hives when gathering the honey.
But the apocryphal fable is nonetheless eloquent testimony to the gathering suspicion and hatred directed at the court, which, along with officials in Paris, was held responsible for the plight of the common people.