gathering

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡæð.ə.ɹɪŋ/    美 /ˈɡæð.ɚ.ɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
    — I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
  2. A group of people or things.
    — a gathering of Catholics
  3. 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.
  4. A charitable contribution; a collection.
  5. The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature. uncountable
    — The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.
  6. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of gather form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. That gathers together. not-comparable
    — She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.

词形变化

gatherings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
data gathering evidence-gathering gathering place intelligence-gathering newsgathering sports gathering taxgathering woolgathering

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather + -ing (verbal noun ending).
词源 2
From Middle English gaderynge, equivalent to gather + -ing (present participle ending).
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