gathering
noun
1 gathering
A group of persons together in one place.
synonym: assemblage.
Roget 424: shade; awning etc. (cover) 223; parasol, sunshade, umbrella; chick; portiere; screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil, chador, mantle, mask; cloud, mist, gathering. of clouds. umbrage, glade; shadow etc. 421. beach umbrella, folding umbrella. ... show more
Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity†; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature†. visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit. delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy†; cachexia [Med.], atrophy, marasmus†; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay etc. (deterioration) 659; decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration. taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity†, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox. sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen etc. (swelling) 250; carbuncle, gathering, imposthume†, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus†, sphacelation†, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. fever, temperature, calenture†; inflammation. ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitis; Asiatic cholera†, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia†, blennorrhoea†; blood poisoning, bloodstroke†, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever†, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy [Med.]; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele [Med.], canker rash, cardialgia [Med.], carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.]; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche†, dartre [Fr.]; enanthem†, enanthema†; erysipelas; exanthem†, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps†, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis†, pneumonia, psora†, pyaemia†, pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis†, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma†, syntexis†, tetanus, tetter†, tonsillitis, tonsilitis†, tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus [Med.], varicella [Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. fatal disease etc. (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system. [Disease of mind] idiocy etc. 499; insanity etc. 503. martyr to disease; cripple; the halt the lame and the blind;" valetudinary†, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber. [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology†. [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter†; cattle plague, glanders†, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest. [disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria. [types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus. [RNA viruses] rhinovirus; rhabdovirus; picornavirus. [DNA viruses] herpesvirus; cytomegalovirus, CMV; human immunodefficiency virus, HIV. ... show more
is a specific kind of: social group.
is a broader term that covers: building | carload | contingent | floor | pair | room | threesome, triad, trinity, trio | turnout | foursome, quartet, quartette | fivesome, quintet, quintette | sextet, sextette, sixsome | septet, septette, sevensome | eightsome, octet, octette | assembly | crowd | concourse, multitude, throng | audience | community | municipality | cast, cast of characters, dramatis personae | class, course, form, grade | class, year | social affair, social gathering | bunch, crew, crowd, gang | group meeting, meeting | covey | quorum | mass meeting, rally | commune | convocation | fair | bevy | cortege, entourage, retinue, suite | camp | muster | rap group | rave-up | table | wine tasting ... show more.
derivation: assemble, foregather, forgather, gather, meet | assemble, gather, get together.
Dutch: samenkomst
Polish: spęd, zgromadzenie
2 gathering
The social act of assembling.
synonyms: assemblage, assembly.
Roget 72: assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation†; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement†; team; concourse, conflux†, congregation, contesseration†, convergence etc. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] etc. (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote†; conclave etc. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark. miscellany, collectanea†; museum, menagerie etc. (store) 636; museology†. crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue†, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo†; bunch, drive, force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda†; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment etc. (combatants) 726; host etc. (multitude) 102; populousness. clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association etc. (party) 712. volley, shower, storm, cloud. group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine†, fasces†, bale; seron†, seroon†; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel†, stack, sheaf, haycock†; fascicle, fascicule†, fasciculus [Lat.], gavel, hattock†, stook†. accumulation etc. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau†, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing†; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation†, cumulation; glomeration†, agglomeration; conglobation†; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate [Chem], coacervation [Chem], coagmentation†, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum [Lat.], spicilegium†, black hole of Calcutta; quantity etc. (greatness) 31. collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in. ... show more
is a specific kind of: group action.
is a broader term that covers: mobilisation, mobilization | calling together, convocation | coming together, congress, meeting | congregating, congregation | convening, convention | concentration.
is the opposite of: disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling.
derivation: assemble, foregather, forgather, gather, meet | assemble, gather, get together.
Dutch: bijeenkomst, bijeenzijn, samenkomst, samenscholing, samenzijn
3 gathering
The act of gathering something.
synonym: gather.
is a specific kind of: aggregation, assembling, collecting, collection.
is a broader term that covers: centralisation, centralization | harvest, harvest home, harvesting.
derivation: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up | gather | collect, garner, gather, pull together.
Dutch: inname
Polish: zbieranie, gromadzenie
4 gathering
Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching.
synonym: gather.
Moby thesaurus: Smyth sewing, abscess, accumulation, acervation, affair, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, aposteme, apotheosis, article, articulation, ascension, assemblage, assemblee, assembling, assembly, assignation, assumption, at home, back matter, backing, ball, bed sore, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bond, book, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, bracketing, brawl, bringing together, bubo, bulla, bunch, bunion, call-up, canker, canker sore, canvass, carbuncle, case, casemaking, casing-in, caucus, census, chancre, chancroid, chapter, chilblain, chunk, clause, clustering, cold sore, collating, collating mark, collection, colligation, collocation, colloquium, combination, commission, committee, communication, company, comparison, concatenation, conclave, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregation, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conventicle, convention, convergence, convocation, copulation, corralling, council, coupling, cover, crew, crop, cropping, crowd, crush, cumulation, cutting, dance, data-gathering, date, diet, dust cover, dust jacket, eisteddfod, eschar, fascicle, felon, fester, festering, festivity, fete, fever blister, fistula, flock, folding, folio, footband, forgathering, forum, front matter, furuncle, furunculus, gang, get-together, gleaning, glomeration, gluing-off, gob, group, gumboil, hard binding, harvest, harvesting, headband, hemorrhoids, hookup, horde, housewarming, hunk, ingathering, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, inventory, jacket, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, kibe, knotting, lesion, levee, liaison, library binding, lining, lining-up, linkage, linking, lump, marriage, mass, matinee, mechanical binding, meet, meeting, merger, merging, mobilization, muster, niggerhead, number, nutting, page, pairing, panel, papula, papule, paragraph, paronychia, party, parulis, passage, perfect binding, petechia, phrase, piles, pimple, plastic binding, plenum, pock, polyp, press, prom, pustule, quorum, rally, reaping, reception, rendezvous, resurrection, reunion, rising, rodeo, rounding, roundup, rout, ruck, saddle stitching, salon, scab, seance, section, sentence, session, sewing, sheet, shindig, side sewing, signature, sit-in, sitting, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, snowball, sociable, social, social affair, social gathering, soft binding, soft chancre, soiree, sore, spiral binding, splice, stamping, stapling, stigma, stockpile, sty, suppuration, survey, swarm, swelling, symbiosis, symposium, synod, tailband, text, the Ascension, the Assumption, tie, tie-in, tie-up, tipping, translation, trimming, tubercle, turnout, ulcer, ulceration, unification, union, verse, wad, wake, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wire stitching, wound, wrapper, yoking ... show more.
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