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gatherer

/gath-er/US // ˈgæð ər //UK // (ˈɡæðə) //

采集者,收集者,采集员,采集器

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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

  • “I think at that level the acquisitive hunter-gatherer gene influences them more than riches,” Bass said.

  • Should we live like our hunter-gatherer forebears, run barefoot and eat nothing but meat, nuts, and fruit?

  • It's easy to cross the line, and you are no longer an observer and a gatherer of facts.

  • To judge by living hunter-gatherer peoples, these groups would have been fiercely egalitarian, with no head men or chiefs.

  • What matters most though is its core values as a gatherer and interpreter of news.

  • The tax-gatherer and recruiting officer begin to make their way into the hills.

  • Each gentleman may remunerate his gatherer, but the said remuneration shall in each case remain the same.

  • It fell, just inside the line, with its head up, and my gatherer pounced upon it like a cat.

  • Well, the black tax-gatherer is balked by a day, and the wanderer is back at Ercildoune again.

  • It was the bare cabin of a needy widow who had become involved in a lawsuit through the rapacity of a tax-gatherer.