Gathering vs Rathering - What's the difference?
gathering | rathering |
A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
A group of people or things.
((bookbinding)) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
A charitable contribution; a collection.
A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together
(nonstandard, possibly a mistake)
* 1915-16 , the Ohio State University Scientific Society and the Ohio Academy of Science, The Ohio Journal of Science (continuation of the Ohio Naturalist): Volumes 16-17 , volume 17, number 3, page 94:
* 1990 , Bonnie Greene, Canadian Churches and Foreign Policy , page 57:
* 1993 , Amitava Mukherjee, V. K. Agnihotri, Environment and Development: Views from the East & the West , page 538:
As a noun gathering
is a meeting or get-together; a party or social function.As a verb gathering
is present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together.As an adverb rathering is
(nonstandard|possibly a mistake).gathering
English
(wikipedia gathering)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
- A gathering of fruit.
- This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), equivalent to .Verb
(head)- She enjoyed gathering wildflowers.
Derived terms
*rathering
English
Adverb
(-)- Some years ago I chanced to be in a geologic conference, dealing with this phase of geology, in two sessions of which rathering striking statements were made,
- Rathering than facing the difficult task of presenting the region in all its many facets, observers have been tempted to force it into the stereotypes of good guys and bad guys, white hats and black hats,
- The Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 did bring the environment on top of the international agenda, but it was like agreeing to discuss the symptoms of a disease rathering than getting down to the actual treatment