n. 聚集, 集中, 采集

[化] 富集

[医] 生脓

Gather \Gath"er\ (g[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. t. [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.


Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, n.
1. The act of collecting or bringing together.

2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together;
as:
(a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
(b) A charitable contribution; a collection.
(c) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.


Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, a.
Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

{Gathering board} (Bookbinding), a table or board on which
signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.
--Knight.

{Gathering coal}, a lighted coal left smothered in embers
over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the
morning.

{Gathering hoop}, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the
ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped
over them.

{Gathering peat}.
(a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a
fire.
(b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the
Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by
the Highlanders.