Definitions for gathering

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gathering gath·er·ing

Spelling: [gath -er-ing]

IPA: /ˈgæð ər ɪŋ/

Gathering is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 443 anagrams from letters in gathering (aegghinrt).

Definitions for gathering

noun

1. an assembly or meeting.
2. an assemblage of people; group or crowd.
3. a collection, assemblage, or compilation of anything.
4. the act of a person or thing that gathers.
5. something that is gathered together.
6. a gather or a series of gathers in cloth.
7. an inflamed and suppurating swelling.
8. (in a flue, duct, or the like) a tapered section forming a transition between two sections, one of which has a greater area than the other.
9. Bookbinding. a section in a book, usually a sheet cut into several leaves.
10. a drawing together; contraction.
11. Often, gathers. a fold or pucker, as in gathered cloth.
12. an act or instance of gathering.
13. an amount or number gathered, as during a harvest.
14. Glassmaking. a mass of molten glass attached to the end of a punty.

Idioms

1. be gathered to one's fathers, to die.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring together into one group, collection, or place:
2. to bring together or assemble from various places, sources, or people; collect gradually:
3. to serve as a center of attention for; attract:
4. to pick or harvest (any crop or natural yield) from its place of growth or formation:
5. to pick up piece by piece:
6. to pick or scoop up:
7. to collect (as taxes, dues, money owed, etc.).
8. to accumulate; increase:
9. to take by selection from among other things; sort out; cull.
10. to assemble or collect (one's energies or oneself) as for an effort (often followed by up):
11. to learn or conclude from observation; infer; deduce:
12. to wrap or draw around or close:
13. to contract (the brow) into wrinkles.
14. to draw (cloth) up on a thread in fine folds or puckers by means of even stitches.
15. Bookbinding. to assemble (the printed sections of a book) in proper sequence for binding.
16. Nautical. to gain (way) from a dead stop or extremely slow speed.
17. Metalworking. to increase the sectional area of (stock) by any of various operations.
18. Glassmaking. to accumulate or collect (molten glass) at the end of a tube for blowing, shaping, etc.

verb (used without object)

1. to come together around a central point; assemble:
2. to collect or accumulate:
3. to grow, as by accretion; increase.
4. to become contracted into wrinkles, folds, creases, etc., as the brow or as cloth.
5. to come to a head, as a sore in suppurating.

Origin of gathering

before 900; Middle English gaderinge, Old English gaderunge. See gather, -ing¹

Examples for gathering

As I was gathering my things to go, the president suggested we take a few pictures together.

This is not about gathering intelligence or expanding surveillance.

At the evening gathering Lord Shaftesbury occupied the chair.

The gathering of the thousands of cops had been a soul-stirring sight.

So, on this Monday evening, there were but seventeen at the gathering.

Bill was scrubbing the porch, and a farmhand was gathering bottles from the grass into a box.

There he stood for a moment, and Andrew knew that he was gathering his nerve.

There's a being far more curious to the world of ‘Magic: The gathering’ than dragons, angels, or merfolk: female players.

The jury met in secret for months gathering testimony from witnesses, including from Pantaleo.

I left the village in the gathering gloom and was soon out on the heather.