Pickup vs Gather - What's the difference?
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An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.
# In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
(US, Canada) A pickup truck.
(usually, attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games.
An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter. See also pick-up line', '''pick-up joint''', ' pickup artist .
(video games) An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
(US, Canada) The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate. See also gain
The act of answering a telephone.
* 2006 , Georgina Spelvin, The Devil Made Me Do It , Little Red Hen Books (2008), ISBN 978-0-6151-9907-8,
(film) A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.
The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle. The time the act occurs.
To collect; normally separate things.
# Especially, to harvest food.
# To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
# To congregate, or assemble.
#* Tennyson
# To grow gradually larger by accretion.
#* Francis Bacon
To bring parts of a whole closer.
# (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
# (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
# (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 infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To gain; to win.
* Dryden
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.
As nouns the difference between pickup and gather
is that pickup is an electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player while gather is a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.As a verb gather is
to collect; normally separate things.pickup
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Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(en noun)- Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pick up .
- At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.
- Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup , I'm not interested.
- The returns from the election show Apple Party candidate Jane Doe has made a pickup in the district of City West defeating Orange Party Incumbent Joe Smith
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- That's why the phone at the theater's on automatic pickup .
Descendants
* Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Finnish: (l) * French: * German: * Indonesian: (l) * Japanese: * Khmer: * Portuguese: * Russian: * Spanish: (Guatemala) * Thai: ----gather
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Verb
(en verb)- I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
- She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
- We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
- Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
- People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
- Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.
- Their snowball did not gather as it went.
- She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
- A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
- Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
- If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
- to gather the slack of a rope
- 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.
- Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
- He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
