GATHERING


Meaning of GATHERING in English

/gadh"euhr ing/ , n.

1. an assembly or meeting.

2. an assemblage of people; group or crowd.

3. a collection, assemblage, or compilation of anything.

4. the act of a person or thing that gathers.

5. something that is gathered together.

6. a gather or a series of gathers in cloth.

7. an inflamed and suppurating swelling.

8. (in a flue, duct, or the like) a tapered section forming a transition between two sections, one of which has a greater area than the other.

9. Bookbinding. a section in a book, usually a sheet cut into several leaves.

[ bef. 900; ME gaderinge, OE gaderunge. See GATHER, -ING 1 ]

Syn. 1. assemblage. 2. congregation, concourse, company, throng. 7. boil, abscess, carbuncle.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .