gather englanniksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-englanti)

To collect; normally separate things.
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.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
(sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
(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.
(nautical) To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To gain; to win.

A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
(glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
I gather that you don't like her any more.
Let’s all gather together and discuss this in a civilized manner.
The crowd gathered around their hero.
She’s gathered a huge fortune over the years through her hard work.
Let’s gather up a big pile of leaves, and play in it!
He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
to gather the slack of a rope
I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
Their snowball did not gather as it went.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.
People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.

Partisiipin perfekti	gathered	Partisiipin perfekti	gather'd (vanhentunut)
Imperfekti	gathered	Imperfekti	gather'd (vanhentunut)
Partisiipin preesens	gathering	Monikko	gathers
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	gathers	Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	gathereth (vanhahtava)

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