Gather vs Swarm - What's the difference?
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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.
A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
* Milton
A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
* Addison
(label) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
(lb) To move as a swarm .
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
(lb) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Every place swarms with soldiers.
(lb) To fill a place as a swarm .
(lb) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
* (1748–1828)
*:At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
*1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,
*:She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
To breed multitudes.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Not so thick swarmed once the soil / Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.
Gather is a related term of swarm.
As verbs the difference between gather and swarm
is that gather is to collect; normally separate things while swarm is (lb) to move as a swarm .As nouns the difference between gather and swarm
is that gather is a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker while swarm is a large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.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.
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
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* * English ergative verbsswarm
English
Noun
(en noun)- a deadly swarm of hornets
- a swarm of meteorites
- those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]
