Found vs Gathered - What's the difference?
found | gathered |
Food and lodging, board.
(find)
To begin building.
To start some type of organization or company.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
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, chapter=4 To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
* Milton
(gather)
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 found and gathered
is that found is (find) or found can be to begin building or found can be to melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting while gathered is (gather).As a noun found
is food and lodging, board or found can be a thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.found
English
Etymology 1
see find.Noun
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* found footage * lost and foundEtymology 2
From (etyl) founder (French: fonder), from (etyl) fundare.Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded . …”}}
Synonyms
* (to start organization) establishAntonyms
* (to begin building) ruin * (to start organization) dissolve, abolishReferences
* Oxford Online Dictionary, found * WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton UniversityEtymology 3
From (etyl) fondre.Verb
(en verb)- Whereof to found their engines.
Etymology 4
Statistics
*gathered
English
Verb
(head)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.