English Dictionary

gathering

/ˈɡæ.ðə.ɹɪŋ/

noun

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function. / A group of people or things. / (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

The gathering was held at a local park.

意味（1）

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.

意味（2）

A group of people or things.

A gathering of fruit.

意味（3）

(bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.

意味（4）

A charitable contribution; a collection.

意味（5）

(uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.

The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.

意味（6）

(medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.