gatherer
采集者,收集者,采集员,采集器
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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
“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.