Synonyms of the word

gather

• v. To collect; normally separate things.
• v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
• v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
• v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• v. To gain; to win.
• n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
• n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
• n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
• n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

accumulate

• v. (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
• v. (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
• adj. (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

aggregation

• n. The act of collecting together (aggregating).
• n. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
• n. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
• n. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
• n. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
• n. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

amass

• v. (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
• v. (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
• n. (obsolete) A mass; a heap.

assemble

• v. (transitive) To put together.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather as a group.
• v. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code.

assembling

• v. present participle of assemble.
• n. A gathering or assembly.

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

collecting

• n. A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining…
• v. present participle of collect.

collection

• n. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
• n. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
• n. The activity of collecting.
• n. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
• n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
• n. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
• n. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• n. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start…

conclude

• v. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
• v. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
• v. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
• v. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
• v. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
• v. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
• v. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
• v. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation).

conglomerate

• n. A cluster of heterogeneous things.
• n. (business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are…
• n. (geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
• adj. Clustered together into a mass.
• adj. (geology) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rock, cemented together.
• v. To combine together into a larger mass.
• v. (business) To combine together into a larger corporation.

cumulate

• v. (transitive) To accumulate; to amass.
• v. (intransitive) To be accumulated.
• adj. accumulated, agglomerated, amassed.
• n. (geology) An igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.

foregather

• v. Alternative form of forgather.

forgather

• v. (intransitive) To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate.

garner

• n. A granary; a store of grain.
• n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
• v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
• v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
• v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
• v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gathering

• n. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
• n. A group of people or things.
• n. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
• n. A charitable contribution; a collection.
• n. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• v. present participle of gather.

increase

• v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
• v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
• v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
• n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
• n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

interact

• n. A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.
• v. To act upon each other.

meet

• v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
• v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
• v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
• v. To satisfy; to comply with.
• v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
• n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
• n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
• n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. A meeting.
• n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
• n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
• adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

pucker

• v. To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
• n. A fold or wrinkle.
• n. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.

reason

• n. A cause.
• n. (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception,…
• n. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
• n. (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
• v. (intransitive) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process…
• v. (intransitive) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute;…
• v. (intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.
• v. (transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to…
• v. (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
• v. (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
• v. (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
• v. (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

search

• n. An attempt to find something.
• n. The act of searching in general.
• v. (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.
• v. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
• v. (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.

seek

• v. (transitive) To try to find, to look for, to search.
• v. (transitive) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
• v. (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
• v. (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

sew

• v. (transitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them…
• v. (intransitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them…
• v. (transitive) To enclose by sewing.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To drain the water from.
• v. (nautical) Of a ship, to be grounded.

sewing

• v. present participle of sew.
• n. The action of the verb to sew.
• n. Something that is being or has been sewn.

stitch

• n. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
• n. An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
• n. (sports) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, caused by internal organs pulling…
• n. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn.
• n. An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
• n. A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
• n. Hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
• n. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
• n. (obsolete) A contortion, or twist.
• n. (colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or dress.
• n. A furrow.
• v. To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of…
• v. To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
• v. (agriculture) To form land into ridges.
• v. (intransitive) To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
• v. (computing, graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.

stitchery

• n. fine work done by stitching.

tuck

• v. (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
• v. (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
• v. (intransitive, often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume.
• v. (ergative) To fit neatly.
• v. To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
• v. To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
• v. To full, as cloth.
• v. (LGBT, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) To conceal one’s genitals, as with a gaff or by fastening them…
• v. (when playing scales on piano keys) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over…
• n. An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
• n. (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension…
• n. A curled position.
• n. (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
• n. (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving…
• n. (diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
• n. (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
• n. The beat of a drum.
• n. Food, especially snack food.