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gathering

[gath-er-ing]

noun

  1. an assembly or meeting.

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  2. an assemblage of people; group or crowd.

    Synonyms: , , ,
  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.

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  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.



gathering

/ ˈɡæðəɪŋ /

noun

  1. a group of people, things, etc, that are gathered together; assembly

  2. sewing a gather or series of gathers in material

    1. the formation of pus in a boil

    2. the pus so formed

  3. printing an informal name for section

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gathering1

First recorded before 900; Middle English gaderinge, Old English gaderunge; equivalent to gather + -ing 1
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Instead the three-day gathering in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta will inevitably be focused on war in the Middle East.

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It will be the first face-to-face gathering of world leaders since Israel's strikes on Iran.

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Inside Boomtown, marketing manager Nick Gingold was pleased to see a gathering of about 20 regulars who stopped by Wednesday at 6 p.m.

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Ivey, the Florida sheriff, also threatened protesters who turn “violent” in other ways — including by resisting orders, blocking intersections, fleeing arrest or gathering around cars to stop traffic — with jail time and hospitalization.

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson actually called for Padilla's censure while Republican Senate Majority leader John Thune said he's "gathering information."

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