Gather vs Ingathering - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between gather and ingathering

is that gather is to collect; normally separate things while ingathering is .

As nouns the difference between gather and ingathering

is that gather is a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker while ingathering is the gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest.

gather

English

Verb

(en verb)

To collect; normally separate things.

I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.

She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.

# Especially, to harvest food.

We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.

# To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.

# To congregate, or assemble.

People gathered round as he began to tell his story.

#* Tennyson

Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.

# To grow gradually larger by accretion.

#* Francis Bacon

Their snowball did not gather as it went.

To bring parts of a whole closer.

She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.

# (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.

A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.

# (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.

If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.

# (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 gather the slack of a rope

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

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.

(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.

(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

To gain; to win.

* Dryden

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

Derived terms

* gathering iron

Anagrams

* * English ergative verbs

ingathering

English

Verb

(head)

:* {{quote-book, year=1882, author=Henry Kendall, title=The Poems of Henry Kendall, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=And, across the gleaming beaches, lo! the mighty flow and fall Of the great ingathering waters thundering under Wamberal! }}

Noun

(en noun)

The gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest

:* {{quote-book, year=1886, author=Thomas Hardy, title=The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=From that day and hour it was clear that there was not to be so successful an ingathering after all. }}

:* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=Emile Joseph Dillon, title=The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The peasant obtained also the seed, but this he was obliged to return to the state after the ingathering of the harvest. }}

:* {{quote-news, year=1994, date=July 1, author=Adam Langer, title=The Last Days of the House of David, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Not until the ingathering are we talking about Eden.}}

:* {{quote-news

, date=2012-01-03 , first= , last= , author=Ralph Benko , authorlink= , coauthors= , title=Daniel Yergin's The Quest , newspaper=Forbes , city= , publisher= , quotee= citation , page= , passage=... infuses a rich ingathering of information and analysis with the narrative power of a McMurtry, ... }}