gathers is a form of:
Gather
verb — past tense: gathered ; past participle: gathered ; present participle: gathering ;
- 1.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ប្រជុំ, ប្រមូល, យល់ដឹង
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- 2.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- 3.
- The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering.
verb — past tense: gathered ; past participle: gathered ; present participle: gathering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
- 6.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 7.
- (TRANSITIVE) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
- 8.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
- 9.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
- 10.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
- 11.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To collect or bring things together.
- 1.
- To gain, to win