different between consolidate vs gather

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consolid?tus, from the verb consolid?, from solidus (“solid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?s?l?de?t/

Verb

consolidate (third-person singular simple present consolidates, present participle consolidating, simple past and past participle consolidated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.

   He consolidated his luggage into a single large bag.

2. To make stronger or more solid.
3. (finance) To pay off several debts with a single loan.

Coordinate terms

• (combine into a single unit): defragment

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

consolidate (comparative more consolidate, superlative most consolidate)

1. (obsolete) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate.

Anagrams

• delocations

Italian

Verb

consolidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of consolidare
2. second-person plural imperative of consolidare
3. feminine plural of consolidato

Anagrams

• ciondolaste

Latin

Verb

c?nsolid?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?nsolid?

English

Alternative forms

• gether (obsolete or regional)

Etymology

From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadur?n (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ed?- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??æð?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æð?/
• Rhymes: -æð?(?)

Verb

gather (third-person singular simple present gathers, present participle gathering, simple past and past participle gathered)

1. To collect; normally separate things.
   1. Especially, to harvest food.

   2. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

   3. (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
      • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Tears

        Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.

   4. (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

      • Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.

2. To bring parts of a whole closer.
   1. (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.

   2. (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

   3. (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.
   4. (nautical) To haul in; to take up.

3. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

4. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

5. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
6. To gain; to win.

Synonyms

• (to bring together): aggroup, togetherize; see also Thesaurus:round up

  (—to accumulate over time): accrue, add up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate

  (—to congregate): assemble, begather; see also Thesaurus:assemble

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

gather (plural gathers)

1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
2. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
3. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
4. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
5. A gathering.
   • 2007, John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black (Tor Books, ?ISBN):

     "I'll tell you all about it at the Gather, win or lose."

   • 2014, Paul Lederer, Dark Angel Riding (Open Road Media, ?ISBN):

     What bothered him more, he thought as he started Washoe southward, was Spikes's animosity, the bearded man's sudden violent reaction to his arrival at the gather.

Derived terms

• gathering iron

Translations

Anagrams

• Gareth, rageth