gather

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡæðə/|/ˈɡaðə/    美 /ˈɡæðɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
  2. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
  3. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
  4. A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
  5. A gathering.
    — "I'll tell you all about it at the Gather, win or lose."
动词 v.
  1. To collect normally separate things.
    — I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
  2. To collect normally separate things.; Especially, to harvest food.
    — We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
  3. To collect normally separate things.; To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
    — Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
  4. To collect normally separate things.; To congregate, or assemble. intransitive
    — People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
  5. To collect normally separate things.; To grow gradually larger by accretion. intransitive
    — Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.
  6. To bring parts of a whole closer.
    — She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
  7. To bring parts of a whole closer.; To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
    — A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
  8. To bring parts of a whole closer.; To bring stitches closer together.
    — Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
  9. To bring parts of a whole closer.; To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
  10. To bring parts of a whole closer.; To haul in; to take up.
    — to gather the slack of a rope
  11. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
    — From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
  12. To be filled with pus intransitive
    — Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
  13. To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
  14. To gain; to win.
    — He gathers ground upon her in the chase.

词形变化

gathers present,singular,third-person gathering participle,present gathered participle,past gathered past gether alternative,obsolete,regional gathers plural gether alternative,obsolete,regional

词汇关系

近义词
add up begather togetherize
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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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