Usually means: Collect or bring things together.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word gather:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gather: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gather: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gather: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gather: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gather: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gather, gather: Wordnik
  7. gather: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gather: Wiktionary
  9. gather: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gather: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gather: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gather: Dictionary.com
  13. gather: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gather: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gather (knitting), Gather (sewing), Gather (vector addressing), Gather: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gather: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gather: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gather: Rhymezone
  19. gather: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gather: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gather: Free Dictionary
  22. gather: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gather: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. gather: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gather: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gather: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gather: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GATHER: Acronym Finder
  2. gather: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gather, gather: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gather: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Gather: Glossary of Glass Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To collect normally separate things.
verb:  Especially, to harvest food.
verb:  To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
verb:  (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
verb:  To bring parts of a whole closer.
verb:  (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
verb:  (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
verb:  (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
verb:  (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
verb:  To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
verb:  (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
verb:  (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
verb:  To gain; to win.
noun:  A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
noun:  The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
noun:  (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
noun:  (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
noun:  A gathering.

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