 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gathered
adjective
1: having accumulated or become more intense; "the deepened
gloom" [syn: {deepened}]
2: brought together in one place; "the collected works of
Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt" [syn: {collected}]
[ant: {uncollected}, {uncollected}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gather \Gath"er\ (g[a^][th]"[~e]r), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p.
{Gathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gathering}.] [OE. gaderen, AS.
gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. g[ae]d
fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte
husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a
sister's son. [root]29. See {Good}, and cf. {Together}.]
1. To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate
things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to
assemble; to muster; to congregate.
And Belgium's capital had gathered them
Her beauty and her chivalry. --Byron.
When he had gathered all the chief priests and
scribes of the people together. --Matt. ii. 4.
2. To pick out and bring together from among what is of less
value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to
pick off; to pluck.
A rose just gathered from the stalk. --Dryden.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
--Matt. vii.
16.
Gather us from among the heathen. --Ps. cvi. 47.
3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little;
to amass; to gain; to heap up.
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his
substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity
the poor. --Prov.
xxviii. 8.
To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by
degrees. --Locke.
4. To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to
contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or
plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece
of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a
ruffle.
Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand
In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.
--Pope.
5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a
conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments
that prove; to infer; to conclude.
Let me say no more!
Gather the sequel by that went before. --Shak.
6. To gain; to win. [Obs.]
He gathers ground upon her in the chase. --Dryden.
7. (Arch.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry,
as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to
the width of the flue, or the like.
8. (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of
a rope.
{To be gathered to one's people} or {To be gathered to one's
fathers} to die. --Gen. xxv. 8.
{To gather breath}, to recover normal breathing after being
out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest. --Spenser.
{To gather one's self together}, to collect and dispose one's
powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory
to a leap.
{To gather way} (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with
increasing speed.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "gathered":
accumulated, agglomerate, aggregate, allied, amassed, assembled,
associated, backlogged, banded together, bound, bracketed, built,
bunched, bundled, cast, clumped, clustered, collected, combined,
conglomerate, congregate, congregated, conjoined, connected,
constructed, copulate, coupled, crafted, creased, created, crimped,
cumulate, custom, custom-built, custom-made, dog-eared, doubled,
extracted, fabricated, fascicled, fasciculated, fashioned,
flexible, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, forged,
formed, garnered, glomerate, grown, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand,
handcrafted, handmade, harvested, heaped, hoarded, homemade,
homespun, in session, incorporated, integrated, intimate, joined,
joint, knotted, laid up, leagued, linked, lumped, machine-made,
machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, massed,
matched, mated, meeting, merged, milled, mined, molded, packaged,
paired, piled, plaited, pleated, pliable, plicate, plicated,
plicatile, prefab, prefabricated, processed, put together, quilled,
raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared,
ready-to-wear, refined, ruffled, shaped, smelted, spliced, stacked,
stockpiled, stored, tied, treasured, tucked, twilled, undivided,
united, unseparated, wedded, well-built, well-constructed,
well-made, wrapped up, yoked
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