Come vs Gather - What's the difference?
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(label) To move from further away to nearer to.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1809-1892)
# To move towards the speaker.
# To move towards the listener.
# To move towards the object that is the of the sentence.
# (label) To move towards the or subject of the main clause.
# To move towards an unstated agent.
(label) To arrive.
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(label) To appear, to manifest itself.
* (1613-1680), (Hudibras)
(label) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
To achieve orgasm; to cum.
To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
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To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
To become, to turn out to be.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
(label) To carry through; to succeed in.
(label) Happen.
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, title= To have a social background.
# To be or have been a resident or native.
# To have been brought up by or employed by.
To germinate.
(obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
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(slang) Semen, or female ejaculatory discharge.
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An exclamation to express annoyance.
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An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come , let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
To collect; normally separate things.
# Especially, to harvest food.
# To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
# To congregate, or assemble.
#* Tennyson
# To grow gradually larger by accretion.
#* Francis Bacon
To bring parts of a whole closer.
# (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
# (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
# (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
# (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To gain; to win.
* Dryden
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
(glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
As verbs the difference between come and gather
is that come is to (to consume food) while gather is to collect; normally separate things.As a noun gather is
a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.come
English
(wikipedia come)Verb
- Look, who comes yonder?
- I did not come to curse thee.
- when butter does refuse to come [i.e. to form]
- How come you thus estranged?
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Usage notes
In its general sense, come'' specifically marks motion towards the (whether explicitly stated or not). Its counterpart, usually referring to motion away from or not involving the deictic centre, is ''go''. For example, the sentence "Come to the tree" implies contextually that the speaker is already at the tree - "Go to the tree" often implies that the speaker is elsewhere. Either the speaker or the listener can be the deictic centre - the sentences "I will go to you" and "I will come to you" are both valid, depending on the exact nuances of the context. When there is no clear speaker or listener, the deictic centre is usually the focus of the sentence or the topic of the piece of writing. "Millions of people came''' to America from Europe" would be used in an article about America, but "Millions of people ' went to America from Europe" would be used in an article about Europe. When used with adverbs of location, come'' is usually paired with ''here'' or ''hither''. In interrogatives, ''come'' usually indicates a question about source - "Where are you coming from?" - while ''go indicates a question about destination - "Where are you going?" or "Where are you going to?" A few old texts use comen as the past participle. The phrase "dream come true" is a set phrase; the verb "come" in the sense "become" is archaic outside of that set phrase and the collocation "come about". The collocations “come with” and “come along” mean accompany, used as “Do you want to come with me?” and “Do you want to come along?” In the Midwestern American dialect, “come with” can occur without a following object, as in “Do you want to come with?” In this dialect, “with” can also be used in this way with some other verbs, such as “take with”. Examples of this may be found in plays by Chicagoan (David Mamet), such as (American Buffalo).Chicago DialectThis objectless use is not permissible in other dialects.
Antonyms
*Derived terms
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* cam'st * kingdom comeNoun
(-)- “If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
See also
* cumPreposition
(English prepositions)- Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoctions to offer your guests.
- Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
- Come the final whistle, Mikel Arteta lay flabbergasted on the turf.
Usage notes
* is often used when both the indicated event, period or change in state occurred in the past.Interjection
(en interjection)References
Statistics
* 1000 English basic words 200 English basic words English copulative verbs English irregular past participles English irregular verbs English past participles English prepositions English terms with homophones English verb forms using redundant wikisyntax English verbs with base form identical to past participle Italian interrogative adverbs ----gather
English
Verb
(en verb)- I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
- She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
- We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
- Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
- People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
- Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.
- Their snowball did not gather as it went.
- She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
- A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
- Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
- If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
- to gather the slack of a rope
- From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
- I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
- Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
- He gathers ground upon her in the chase.