| 单词 | gathering |
| 释义 | gathering /gadh"euhr ing/, n. 1. an assembly or meeting. 2. an assemblage of people; group or crowd. 3. a collection, assemblage, or compilation of anything. 4. the act of a person or thing that gathers. 5. something that is gathered together. 6. a gather or a series of gathers in cloth. 7. an inflamed and suppurating swelling. 8. (in a flue, duct, or the like) a tapered section forming a transition between two sections, one of which has a greater area than the other. 9. Bookbinding. a section in a book, usually a sheet cut into several leaves. [bef. 900; ME gaderinge, OE gaderunge. See GATHER, -ING1] Syn. 1. assemblage. 2. congregation, concourse, company, throng. 7. boil, abscess, carbuncle. |
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