Dictionary Entry
gather
gather is a 6-letter English word with 26 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5transitive verb
To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
- 6transitive verb
To gain; to win.
- 7transitive verb
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.
- 8transitive verb
To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
- 9intransitive verb
To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
- 10intransitive verb
To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
- 11intransitive verb
To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
- 12intransitive verb
To collect or bring things together.
- 13noun
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- 14noun
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- 15noun
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather. t., 7.
- 16noun
the act of gathering something
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- 17noun
sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
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- 18verb
increase or develop
"the peace movement gained momentum"
"the car gathers speed"
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- 19verb
collect or gather
"Journals are accumulating in my office"
"The work keeps piling up"
- 20verb
conclude from evidence
"I gather you have not done your homework"
- 21verb
look for (food) in nature
"Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"
- 22verb
draw together into folds or puckers
- 23verb
draw and bring closer
"she gathered her shawl around her shoulders"
- 24verb
assemble or get together
"gather some stones"
"pull your thoughts together"
- 25verb
collect in one place
"We assembled in the church basement"
"Let's gather in the dining room"
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- 26verb
get people together
"assemble your colleagues"
"get together all those who are interested in the project"
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