Gather

English Meaning

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.

1. To cause to come together; convene: The teacher gathered the students around the exhibit.
2. To accumulate (something) gradually; amass: The top of the bookshelf gathered dust.
3. To harvest or pick: gather flowers; gather wild foods.
4. To gain by a process of gradual increase: gather speed.
5. To collect into one place; assemble.
6. To pick up and enfold: gathered the kittens into her arms.
7. Printing To arrange (signatures) in sequence for bookbinding.
8. To draw into small folds or puckers, as by pulling a thread through cloth.
9. To contract and wrinkle (the brow).
10. To draw about or bring (one thing) closer to something else: gathered the shawl about my shoulders.
11. To conclude; infer: I gather that a decision has not been reached.
12. To summon up; muster: gathered up his courage.
13. To attract or be a center of attraction for: The parade gathered a large crowd.
14. To come together in a group; assemble: A crowd gathered in the lobby.
15. To accumulate: Dark clouds are gathering.
16. To grow or increase by degrees.
17. To come to a head, as a boil; fester.
18. To forage for wild foodstuffs.
19. The act or an instance of gathering.
20. A quantity gathered.
21. A small fold or pucker made by gathering cloth.