Gather vs Resound - What's the difference?

gather | resound |

In intransitive terms the difference between gather and resound

is that gather is to grow gradually larger by accretion while resound is to make a reverberating sound.

As verbs the difference between gather and resound

is that gather is to collect; normally separate things while resound is to sound again.

As a noun gather

is a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

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

resound

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(en verb)

to sound again

to echo a sound

Etymology 2

From (etyl) resownen, from (etyl) resoner, from (etyl)

Verb

(en verb)

to reverberate with sound or noise

The street resounded with the noise of the children's game.

to make a reverberating sound

The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.

To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo.

* Alexander Pope

Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.

To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.

* Alexander Pope

The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, / Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound .

Derived terms

* resounded * resounding