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gather
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)
- To collect; normally separate things.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- (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.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Tears
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- 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.
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- 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.
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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 2007, John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black (Tor Books, ?ISBN):
Derived terms
- gathering iron
Translations
Anagrams
- Gareth, rageth
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accept
English
Etymology
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin accept?, accept?re (“receive”), frequentative of accipi?, formed from ad- + capi? (“to take”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?s?pt/, /æk?s?pt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?s?pt/
- Rhymes: -?pt
- Homophone: except (in some dialects)
- Hyphenation: ac?cept
Verb
accept (third-person singular simple present accepts, present participle accepting, simple past and past participle accepted)
- (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
- (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- (transitive) To endure patiently.
- (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
- (transitive) To receive officially.
- (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- receive
- take
- withtake
- admit
- onfang (dialectal, obsolete)
Antonyms
- reject
- decline
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
accept (comparative more accept, superlative most accept)
- (obsolete) Accepted.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ak?t??ept]
Etymology 1
From German Akzept, from Latin acceptus.
Noun
accept n (plural accepte)
- acceptance
Declension
Etymology 2
Verb
accept
- first-person singular present indicative of accepta
- first-person singular present subjunctive of accepta
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?s?p(t)]
Verb
accept (third-person singular present accepts, present participle acceptin, past acceptit, past participle acceptit)
- accept
References
- Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Swedish
Noun
accept c
- (finance, business) a bill of exchange that has been accepted
- (finance, business) the acceptance of a bill of exchange
Declension
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