gathering
Meaning of gathering
noun
- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
- A group of people or things.
A gathering of fruit.
- A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
- A charitable contribution; a collection.
- A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
- 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.
- (of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
- To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To gain; to win.
- That gathers together
She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.
Information about gathering
- The plural form of gathering is: gatherings.
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Hyphenation of gathering
gath-er-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- gathering is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
gathering synonyms
Meaning assemblage:
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Anagrams of gathering
Words that rhyme with gathering
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