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Adjective gathering has 1 sense
- deepening, gathering, thickening - accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering darkness"; "the thickening dusk"
Antonym: moderating (indirect, via intensifying)
Noun gathering has 4 senses
- gathering, assemblage - a group of persons together in one place
--1 is a kind of social group
--1 has particulars: | | body; building; carload; contingent; floor; pair; room; trio, threesome, triad, trinity; turnout; quartet, quartette, foursome; quintet, quintette, fivesome; sextet, sextette, sixsome; septet, septette, sevensome; octet, octette, eightsome; assembly; crowd; multitude, throng, concourse; audience; community; municipality; cast, cast of characters, dramatis personae; class, form, grade; class, year; social gathering, social affair; crowd, crew, gang, bunch; meeting; covey; quorum; rally, mass meeting; commune; convocation; fair; bevy; cortege, retinue, suite, entourage; camp; muster; rap group; rave-up; table; wine tasting |
- assembly, assemblage, gathering - the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly"
--2 is a kind of group action
--2 has particulars:
- gather, gathering - the act of gathering something
--3 is a kind of collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation
--3 has particulars:
- gather, gathering - sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
--4 is a kind of sewing, stitchery
Verb gather has 7 senses
- gather, garner, collect, pull together - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
Antonyms: spread, distribute
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather - collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
--2 is one way to interact
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass - collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
--3 is one way to increase
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- gather - conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework"
--4 is one way to reason, reason out, conclude
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- gather, pucker, tuck - draw fabric together and sew it tightly
--5 is one way to sew, run up, sew together, stitch
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- assemble, gather, get together - get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members"
Sample sentence:
They want to gather the prisoners
- gather - look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"
--7 is one way to search, seek, look for
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
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