gather : Idioms & Phrases


gather in

  • verb fold up
    take in.
    • take in the sails
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gather up

  • verb take and lift upward
    pick up; lift up.
  • verb gather or collect
    call for; collect; pick up.
    • You can get the results on Monday
    • She picked up the children at the day care center
    • They pick up our trash twice a week
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gathered skirt

  • noun a skirt whose fabric is drawn together around the waist
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gathering place

  • noun a favorite haunt where people gather
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hunting and gathering society

  • noun group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic
    hunting and gathering society.
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hunting and gathering tribe

  • noun group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic
    hunting and gathering society.
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information gathering

  • noun the act of collecting information
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social gathering

  • noun a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship
    social affair.
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To be gathered to one's people, ∨ to one's fathers

  • to die. Gen. xxv. 8.
Webster 1913

To gather breath

  • to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get breath; to rest. Spenser.
Webster 1913

To gather one's self together

  • to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
Webster 1913

To gather way

  • (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.
Webster 1913

To get, ∨ To gather, ground

  • to gain ground. R. "Evening mist . . . gathers ground fast." Milton.
    There is no way for duty to prevail, and get ground of them, but by bidding higher. South.
Webster 1913