Nether vs Gether - What's the difference?
nether | gether |
Lower; under.
Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
* 1873 , Mark Twain, The Gilded Age , page187:
To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
(mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
(obsolete, or, regional)
*{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Frederic Moorman, title=More Tales of the Ridings, chapter=, edition=
, passage="'Twere back-end o' t' yeer," he continued at last, "an' t' lads had gone into t' woods to gether hesel-nuts an' accorns. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1898, author=John Hartley, title=Yorkshire Lyrics, chapter=, edition=
, passage=An a taicher wise aw've faand thi, An this lesson gained throo thee; 'At when dangers gether raand me, Th' wisest tactics is to flee. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Sarah P. McLean Greene, title=Cape Cod Folks, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I remember once, we'd had a spell o' weather jest like this, and it begun to gether up in the same way. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1872, author=Edward Eggleston, title=The End Of The World, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But the silence was broken by Cynthy Ann, who came into the hall and called, "Jule, I wish you would go to the barn and gether the eggs; I want to make some cake." }}
As verbs the difference between nether and gether
is that nether is to bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble while gether is (obsolete|or|regional).As an adjective nether
is lower; under.As an adverb nether
is down; downward.As a noun nether
is oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.nether
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nether, nethere, nithere, from (etyl) .Adjective
- The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
- The nether regions.
- When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
Derived terms
* netherdom * nether region * Netherlands * nethermore * nethermost * netherness * netherty * netherward * netherworldEtymology 2
Alteration of earlier nither, from (etyl) nitheren, from (etyl) . See above.Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*gether
English
Verb
(en verb)citation
citation
citation
citation