different between gather vs hoard

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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??d/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho(?)?d/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d
• Homophones: horde, whored

Etymology 1

From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-Germanic *huzd? (“treasure; hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kusd?o-. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin custos (“guard; keeper”).

Noun

hoard (plural hoards)

1. A hidden supply or fund.

   a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money

2. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.

Translations

Verb

hoard (third-person singular simple present hoards, present participle hoarding, simple past and past participle hoarded)

1. To amass, usually for one's own private collection.

Synonyms

• engross, uphoard; see also Thesaurus:amass

Antonyms

• declutter

Translations

Related terms

• hoarder
• hoardy

Etymology 2

See hoarding.

Noun

hoard (plural hoards)

1. A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
2. A hoarding (billboard).

Etymology 3

Noun

hoard

1. Misspelling of horde.

See also

• Hoarding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hoard (archaeology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• horde

Anagrams

• Rhoad, Rhoda, hadro-