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Gather can be a noun or a verb.
gather used as a noun:
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
- A piece of molten glass colected on the end of a blowpipe.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
gather used as a verb:
- To collect; normally separate things.
"I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with." - # Especially, to harvest food.
- #: We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
- # To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- #: Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
- # To congregate, or assemble.
- #: People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
"She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold." - # To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- #: A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
- # To bring stitches closer together.
- #: Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
- #: If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
"From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well." - 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.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is gather?
- Verb usage: I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
- Verb usage: She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
- Verb usage: She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
- Verb usage: From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
- Verb usage: I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
- Verb usage: Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of gather are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of gather, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
