English Dictionary

gather

/ˈɡæðə/

verb

Especially, to harvest food. / To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. / (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble. / (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

They gather every Sunday for a family dinner.

意味（1）

Especially, to harvest food.

We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.

意味（2）

To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.

People gathered round as he began to tell his story.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.

意味（5）

(sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.

A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.

意味（6）

(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.

意味（7）

(architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.

意味（8）

(nautical) To haul in; to take up.

to gather the slack of a rope

意味（9）

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.

意味（10）

(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.

意味（11）

(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

意味（12）

To gain; to win.

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.