English Dictionary

gather

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡæðə/

動詞

自動詞 病理

Especially, to harvest food. / To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. / (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble. / (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

日本語の意味

特に、食物を収穫する。 / 時間とともに少しずつ蓄える、積み重ねる。 / （自動詞）集合する、集まる。 / （自動詞）徐々に増大する、積み重なって大きくなる。

Every autumn, the villagers gather apples from the orchards before the first frost.

毎年秋、村人たちは初霜が降りる前に果樹園でりんごを収穫します。

意味（1）

Especially, to harvest food.

We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.

意味（2）

To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.

People gathered round as he began to tell his story.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.

意味（5）

(sewing) 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.

意味（6）

(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

(nautical) To haul in; to take up.

to gather the slack of a rope

意味（9）

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.

意味（10）

(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.

意味（11）

(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

意味（12）

To gain; to win.

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.

gathers （ present singular third-person ）

gathering （ participle present ）

gathered （ participle past ）

gathered （ past ）