Rep vs Gather - What's the difference?
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(weightlifting, countable) .
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(theater, uncountable) .
To represent; to act as a representative for.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Hal G. Evarts, title=The Settling of the Sage, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Bentley, the man who repped for Slade, carried the air and the rest joined in. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1994, date=November 4, author=Bill Wyman, title=Evanston's New Music Hall/Veruca Salt Grow Up/Schmitsville, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He left to help the Reader set up its national advertising arm, went back to Rolling Stone for five years, repped other magazines, and finally set up his own company, which currently scouts ads for the Atlantic, Spin, Discover, and a publication called Disney Adventures. }}
(knitting) repeat
* 2011 , Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love (page 44)
(textiles) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
* 1923 , Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City
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.
Rep is a related term of gather.
As an initialism rep
is repose en paix/rip.As a verb gather is
to collect; normally separate things.As a noun gather is
a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.rep
English
(wikipedia rep)Etymology 1
Clippings of various words beginning with "rep".Noun
(en noun)- Try not to make it easy for the tabloids to ruin your rep .
- I get a better bicep workout if I use less weight and more reps .
- When I requested tickets for Nassau, my rep just put me on hold.
- John Doe is a participant in the House of Rep s.
- She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.
Verb
(repp)citation
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- Rep' neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, ' rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more
Etymology 2
Back-formation from (reps), misinterpreted as a plural.Noun
(en noun)- Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.
Anagrams
* ----gather
English
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.
