Picker vs Gatherer - What's the difference?
picker | gatherer |
Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
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, title= (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
(engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
(weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
(military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
(slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
A person who gathers things.
A person who collects rent or taxes.
(textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
As nouns the difference between picker and gatherer
is that picker is agent noun of pick; one who picks while gatherer is a person who gathers things.picker
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker' s overalls.}}