gather - English dictionary definition

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1. Gather  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. Gather  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. Gather  To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
4. Gather  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. Gather  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. Gather  To gain; to win.
7. Gather  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.
8. Gather  To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
9. Gather  To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
10. Gather  To grow larger by accretion; to increase.