different between gather vs smocking
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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smocking
English
Etymology
From smock +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sm?k??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sm?k??/
- Rhymes: -?k??
- Hyphenation: smock?ing
Noun
smocking (countable and uncountable, plural smockings)
- (sewing) An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place; the product of the use of this embroidery technique.
Related terms
- smock
- smocker
Translations
Verb
smocking
- present participle of smock
Notes
References
Further reading
- smocking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- mockings
smocking From the web:
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- smocking meaning
- smocking what does it mean
- what is smocking in sewing
- what is smocking embroidery
- what is smocking dress
- what is smocking stitch
- what are smocking plates
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