Gathered vs Tiny - What's the difference?

gathered | tiny |

As a verb gathered

is (gather).

As an adjective tiny is

very small.

As a noun tiny is

a small child; an infant.

gathered

English

Verb

(head)

(gather)

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

tiny

English

Adjective

(er)

Very small.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

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Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* huge, large, big

Derived terms

* tinyness

Noun

(tinies)

A small child; an infant.

*1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 28:

*:‘You know I loved your husband like a brother, and you know I've loved you and Sylvia ever since she was a tiny .’

* 1982 , Young children in China (page 84)

The lessons we saw have been well suited to the age of the children as regards music, singing and moving (and stories about animals for the tinies and more abstract themes for the older children).

Anything very small.

* 1956 , Victoria Sackville-West, Even More For Your Garden (page 102)

Might I now add a plea for the smaller irises, the tinies ? They, also, should be divided up and replanted just now.