gathers: Bedeutung und Definitionen

To collect from different places; assemble: gather the pieces of a puzzle; gather information. To cause to come together; convene: The teacher gathered the students around the exhibit. To draw (something or someone) closer to oneself: gathered the shawl about my shoulders; gathered the child in her arms. To draw into small folds or puckers, as by pulling a thread through cloth. To contract and wrinkle (the brow).

To harvest or pick: gather crops; gather mushrooms.

To conclude or infer, as from evidence: I gather a decision has not been reached.

To summon up; muster: gathered up his courage.

To accumulate (something) gradually; amass: The top of the bookshelf gathered dust. To attract or be the center of attraction for: The jugglers gathered a large crowd.

To gain by a process of gradual increase: gather speed.

To pick up or collect (molten glass) using a tool in glass blowing.

To come together in a group; assemble: A crowd gathered in the lobby.

To accumulate: Dark clouds are gathering.

To grow or increase by degrees: The truck's speed gathered on the downslope.

To come to a head, as a boil; fester.

To forage for wild foodstuffs.

The act or an instance of gathering.

Something gathered, especially: A small fold or pucker made by gathering cloth. A mass of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe or other glass-blowing tool.