Gather

['gæðə] or ['ɡæðɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of gathering something.

(noun.) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching.

(verb.) conclude from evidence; 'I gather you have not done your homework'.

(verb.) look for (food) in nature; 'Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall'.

(verb.) draw together into folds or puckers.

(verb.) draw and bring closer; 'she gathered her shawl around her shoulders'.

(verb.) assemble or get together; 'gather some stones'; 'pull your thoughts together'.

哈罗德手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

(v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.

(v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

(v. t.) To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.

(v. t.) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.

(v. t.) To gain; to win.

(v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.

(v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

(v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.

(v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.

(v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

(v. i.) To collect or bring things together.

(n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

(n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

(n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.

手打:威利

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Collect, muster, assemble, congregate, bring together, draw together.[2]. Accumulate, amass, hoard, heap up, gather up.[3]. Pluck, crop, pick, cull, reap, glean.[4]. Infer, deduce, conclude.[5]. Plait, pucker.

v. n. [1]. Muster, congregate, come together.[2]. Collect, increase, thicken, be condensed.

編輯:露西尔

同義詞及反義詞：

[See COLLECT]

丹尼尔編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to collect: to acquire: in sewing to plait: to learn by inference.—v.i. to assemble or muster: to increase: to suppurate.—n. a plait or fold in cloth made by drawing the thread through (pl. that part of the dress which is gathered or drawn in).—ns. Gath′erer one who collects: a gleaner: in glass manufacturing a workman who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing; Gath′ering a crowd or assembly: a tumour or collection of matter; Gath′ering-coal -peat a coal peat put into a fire at night with the hot embers gathered about it to keep the fire alive till morning; Gath′ering-cry a summons to assemble for war.—Gather breath to recover wind; Gather ground to gain ground; Gather one's self together to collect all one's powers like one about to leap; Gather to a head to ripen: to come into a state of preparation for action or effect; Gather way to get headway by sail or steam so as to answer the helm.

錄入:玛莎