Gathered vs Garnered - What's the difference?
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(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.
(garner)
A granary; a store of grain.
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An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
* 1835 ,
* 1913 , in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
* 1956 ,
(often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.
* 1983 ,
* 1999 ,
(rare) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
* 1849 ,
As verbs the difference between gathered and garnered
is that gathered is past tense of gather while garnered is past tense of garner.gathered
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(head)gather
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(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.
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(en noun)Derived terms
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* * English ergative verbsgarnered
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*garner
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(en noun)- That'' our garners ''may be'' full, affording all manner of store: ''that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
- Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner ; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Verb
(en verb)- I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.
- He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
- ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
- He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
- Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
- His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
- This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
- President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...
- For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;
