gathered
聚集,聚集在一起,收集,聚会
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Definitions
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- : to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- : to bring together or assemble from various places, sources, or people; collect gradually: The college is gathering a faculty from all over the country.
- : to serve as a center of attention for; attract: A good football game always gathers a crowd.
- : to pick or harvest from its place of growth or formation: to gather fruit; to gather flowers.
- : to pick up piece by piece: Gather your toys from the floor.
- : to pick or scoop up: She gathered the crying child in her arms.
- : to collect.
- : to accumulate; increase: The storm gathers force. The car gathered speed.
- : to take by selection from among other things; sort out; cull.
- : to assemble or collect as for an effort: He gathered up his strength for the hard job.
- : to learn or conclude from observation; infer; deduce: I gather that he is the real leader.
- : to wrap or draw around or close: He gathered his scarf around his neck.
- : to contract into wrinkles.
- : to draw up on a thread in fine folds or puckers by means of even stitches.
- : Bookbinding. to assemble in proper sequence for binding.
- : Nautical. to gain from a dead stop or extremely slow speed.
- : Metalworking. to increase the sectional area of by any of various operations.
- : Glassmaking. to accumulate or collect at the end of a tube for blowing, shaping, etc.
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- : to come together around a central point; assemble: Let's gather round the fire and sing.
- : to collect or accumulate: Clouds were gathering in the northeast.
- : to grow, as by accretion; increase.
- : to become contracted into wrinkles, folds, creases, etc., as the brow or as cloth.
- : to come to a head, as a sore in suppurating.
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- : a drawing together; contraction.
- : Often gathers. a fold or pucker, as in gathered cloth.
- : an act or instance of gathering.
- : an amount or number gathered, as during a harvest.
- : Glassmaking. a mass of molten glass attached to the end of a punty.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Less gathers on the side where the nanowires touch the larger electrode.
I have never been to the Matzo Ball, but I gather the vibes are different.
Cabinet ministers of the day gather to review the names and the allegations.
And who else would let them gather dust in some drawer for nearly 50 years?
The land involved is sacred to them and used to gather acorns for religious ceremonies.
They gather and sleep in open fields, surrounded by nature and the stillness of the night.
She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometimes forget them.
She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination.
I may be tempted to postpone my retirement, and for a while longer to continue to gather the golden harvest that ripens round me.
Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather yourselves together into the hours of discipline.
She saw two fiery eyes; she saw the tiger gather himself preparatory to springing.