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Uncommongathers
The correct spelling is gathers.
How to pronounce gathers
noun
Say it like: Gat-her-s
The correct spelling is gathers. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. For example: "I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with."
Usage Examples
“I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.”
“She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.”
“From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.”
Meanings
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. See gather (transitive verb).
- 4.A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- 5.A gathering.
verb
- 1.To collect; normally separate things.
- 2.To bring parts of a whole closer.
- 3.To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- 4.(of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- 5.To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
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