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# gather

«gather» in Mova's school dictionary: **to come together in one place as a group** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (gather, gathers, gathered, gathering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To gather is to come together in one place as a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#m1)

2) To gather things is to collect them from different places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#m2)

3) To gather can mean to understand from what you heard: «I gather you are new.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#m3)

4) To gather speed or strength is to slowly get more of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school life pupils gather on the carpet or in the hall. In history and science early people gathered nuts and berries (hunter-gatherers); bees gather nectar; squirrels gather nuts for winter. In stories clouds gather before a storm and a crowd gathers. Phrases: gather round, gather together, gather up, gather information, gather speed.

### examples

- Gather round and listen to the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#x1)
- We gathered shells on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#x2)
- Squirrels gather nuts for the winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#x3)
- A crowd gathered to watch the parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#x4)
- Dark clouds gathered in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#x5)
- The train gathered speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#x6)
- Gather up your things, it's time to go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#x7)
- Scientists gather data in experiments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#x8)
- The Queen gathered together the lilies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/#x9)

### note

Regular verb (gathered). Noun: gathering (a meeting of people). «Hunter-gatherers» hunted animals and collected wild plants instead of farming. In science, «gather data» means collect results.

### In the corpora

- [A protest is people gathering to show they strongly agree or disagree with something; in free countries peaceful protest is a right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/13/)
- [Goldfish quickly learn that a person near the tank means food is coming, and they gather at the front.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/6/)
- [Arctic hares can hop on their back legs like a kangaroo when they run fast, and they sometimes gather in groups of hundreds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/11/)
- [This is the last lesson of the course, so it gathers the big ideas once more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food/0/)
- [In Hawaii, tiger sharks gather every summer when young albatrosses learn to fly and drop into the sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gather» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gather/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.