gather
To collect normally separate things.
Verb 4 meanings
To collect normally separate things.
“I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.”
To bring parts of a whole closer.
“She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.”
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
“From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.”
To be filled with pus
“Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.”
Noun 4 meanings
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
Etymology
From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).
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GATHER at a glance
GATHER has 6 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (G 2 + A 1 + T 1 + H 4 + E 1 + R 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,674 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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