Gathering vs Clutter - What's the difference?

Gathering is a related term of clutter.

As nouns the difference between gathering and clutter

is that gathering is a meeting or get-together; a party or social function while clutter is a confused disordered jumble of things.

As verbs the difference between gathering and clutter

is that gathering is present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together while clutter is to fill something with.

gathering

English

(wikipedia gathering)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.

A group of people or things.

A gathering of fruit.

((bookbinding)) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.

A charitable contribution; a collection.

A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), equivalent to .

Verb

(head)

present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together

She enjoyed gathering wildflowers.

Derived terms

clutter

English

Noun

(-)

A confused disordered jumble of things.

* L'Estrange

He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

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(obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.

(Jonathan Swift)

Background echos, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.

(countable) A group of cats;

* 2008 , John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories , Introduction

Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.

Derived terms

* surface clutter * volume clutter

Verb

(en verb)

To fill something with .

*{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place

, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}

(obsolete) To clot or coagulate, like blood.

(Holland)

To make a confused noise; to bustle.

* Tennyson

It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.

(Webster 1913)