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.