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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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fuse
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fyo?oz, IPA(key): /fju?z/
- Hyphenation: fuse
- Rhymes: -u?z
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin f?sus (“spindle”).
Noun
fuse (plural fuses)
- A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
- Synonym: fuze (US)
- (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.
- Synonym: fuze
- (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
- (figuratively) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.
- A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
- A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Usage notes
Professional publications about explosives and munitions distinguish the fuse and fuze spellings. The latter is preferred for the sense “mechanism that ignites the charge”.
Derived terms
- blow a fuse
- fusebox
- fuse wire
- short fuse
Translations
Etymology 2
Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”).
Verb
fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)
- (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
- (intransitive) To melt together.
- To furnish with or install a fuse.
- (organic chemistry) To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings
Synonyms
- (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
- (melt together): meld, smelt
Translations
Anagrams
- feus
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: fusent, fuses
Verb
fuse
- first-person singular present indicative of fuser
- third-person singular present indicative of fuser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
- second-person singular imperative of fuser
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uze
Adjective
fuse
- feminine plural of fuso
Noun
fuse f pl
- plural of fusa
Participle
fuse f pl
- feminine plural of fuso
Verb
fuse
- third-person singular past historic of fondere
Latin
Participle
f?se
- vocative masculine singular of f?sus
Adverb
f?s? (comparative f?sius, superlative f?sissim?)
- widely, extensively
- in great detail
- loosely, roughly
References
- fuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
fuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)
- rush
Adjective
fuse
- inflection of fus:
- definite singular
- plural
References
- “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- fusa (verb) (a infinitive)
Verb
fuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fus)
- rush
Adjective
fuse
- inflection of fus:
- definite singular
- plural
- neuter of fusen
References
- “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fu.se]
Etymology 1
Verb
fuse
- third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been
Synonyms
- fu (informal)
Etymology 2
Noun
fuse n
- indefinite plural of fus
Venetian
Verb
fuse
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
- third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
- third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of èser
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