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gather
Found in thesaurus: sewing, stitchery, assembling, aggregation, collecting, collection, interact, increase, reason out, conclude, reason, sew, sew together, run up, stitch, search, look for, seek
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gather
v.
bring together, assemble, collect; amass, accumulate; harvest; conclude, deduce
n.
gathering in, drawing together; fold or pucker (in clothing)
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Gather
Gather, gatherer, or gathering may refer to:
In anthropology and sociology:
In anthropology and sociology:
- Hunter-gatherer, a person or a society whose subsistence depends on hunting and gathering of wild foods
- Intensive gathering, the practice of cultivating wild plants as a step toward domestication
- Harvesting crops
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gather
Noun
1. sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
(synonym) gathering
(hypernym) sewing, stitchery
(derivation) pucker, tuck
2. the act of gathering something
(synonym) gathering
(hypernym) collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation
(hyponym) centralization, centralisation
Verb
1. assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
(synonym) garner, collect, pull together
(antonym) spread, distribute
(hyponym) mobilize, mobilise, marshal, summon
(see-also) pick up, lift up, gather up
(derivation) gathering
2. collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
(synonym) meet, assemble, forgather, foregather
(hypernym) interact
(hyponym) group, aggroup
(verb-group) meet, ran into, encounter, run across, come across, see
(derivation) gathering, assemblage
3. collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
(synonym) accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, amass
(hypernym) increase
(hyponym) backlog
(derivation) gathering
4. conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework"
(hypernym) reason, reason out, conclude
5. draw fabric together and sew it tightly
(synonym) pucker, tuck
(hypernym) sew, run up, sew together, stitch
(derivation) gathering
6. get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members"
(synonym) assemble, get together
(hyponym) make
(cause) meet, assemble, forgather, foregather
(derivation) gathering, assemblage
7. look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"
(hypernym) search, seek, look for
(hyponym) shell
(derivation) gathering
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gather
v.
shromáždit (se); nashromáždit; posbírat; sbírat; usoudit; pochopit
n.
zvětšit/zvýšit (se); nabral jsem
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gather
Czas.
zbierać (się); gromadzić (się); wnioskować; rozumieć (z czegoś, że); odnieść wrażenie; posprzątać; nadciągać
