Crossword clues for gathering
gathering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gather \Gath"er\ (g[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. g[ae]d fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. [root]29. See Good, and cf. Together.]
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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.
And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry.
--Byron.When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together.
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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.
A rose just gathered from the stalk.
--Dryden.Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
--Matt. vii. 16.Gather us from among the heathen.
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To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
--Prov. xxviii. 8.To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees.
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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.
Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.
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To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before.
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To gain; to win. [Obs.]
He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
--Dryden. (Arch.) 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.
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(Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
To be gathered to one's people or To be gathered to one's fathers to die.
--Gen. xxv. 8.To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest.
--Spenser.To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.
Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, n.
The act of collecting or bringing together.
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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 abscess.
Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, a. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. --Knight. Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. Gathering peat.
A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire.
In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a meeting," mid-12c., from late Old English gaderung, verbal noun from gather.
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. 5 A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess. Etymology 2
vb. (present participle of gather English)
WordNet
adj. accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering darkness"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: deepening(a), gathering(a), thickening(a)]
n. a group of persons together in one place [syn: assemblage]
the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly" [syn: assembly, assemblage] [ant: dismantling]
the act of gathering something [syn: gather]
sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [syn: gather]
Wikipedia
Gathering has been an important part of life in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from gathering as missionaries to gathering for worship services. In the early days of the LDS Church, members were asked to gather together many times in specific locations from all over the world, including traveling across the United States to the Utah Territory. In the modern era, members are asked to gather in the stakes of Zion located in their local areas.
In bookbinding, a gathering or section is a group of sheets, folded in the middle, and bound into the binding together. The gatherings can be seen by looking at the top or bottom sides of the book, though cheaper modern books are perfect bound with no gatherings, gluing each sheet directly to the binding. The gatherings are sewn into the binding and the middle sheet of each gathering will have two or more short stretches of thread visible at the central fold.
In medieval manuscripts a gathering, or quire, was most often formed of 4 folded sheets of vellum or parchment, i.e. 8 leaves, 16 sides. The term "quaternion" (or sometimes quaternum) designates such a unit. A gathering made of a single folded sheet (i.e. 2 leaves, 4 sides) is a "bifolium" (plural "bifolia"); a "binion" is a quire of two sheets (i.e. 4 leaves, 8 sides); and a "quinion" is five sheets (10 leaves, 20 sides). This last meaning is preserved in the modern Italian meaning of quire, quinterno di carta. Later, when bookmaking switched to using paper and it became possible to easily stitch 5 to 7 sheets at a time, the number of sheets and pages in a gathering became more variable.
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.