Word Finder - gathering

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A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

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I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.

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A group of people or things.

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A gathering of fruit.

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A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

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This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.

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A charitable contribution; a collection.

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A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

Lisa was silent a moment, gathering courage.

Josh was certain it was a pack, not simply a gathering of neighbor dogs.

Her chest heaved, and her eyes stung with gathering tears.

She turned away, but he saw the tears gathering in her eyes.

When he entered the living room where the women were gathering, his gaze immediately found Carmen.

Attend to the gathering of fruit as it ripens.

The demons are gathering the ones we're missing.

She was trying hard to push away the gathering emotions that told her Wynn was not the man she wanted, needed him to be.

The home, now known as Eight Maples Farm, had been a gathering place for travelers seeking good music and refreshments, over two hundred years ago.

She drew another deep breath, gathering strength from him.

She drank straight from the bottle as she moved around the room, gathering and piling clothing into a small suitcase.

The street below was narrower than it appeared on TV and packed with cars and elegantly dressed men and women walking to a gathering across the street --probably the soiree Andre had mentioned.

She waved her hand down the trail where she was looking at a large gathering.

He remembered that he had seen many bees flying among these flowers and gathering honey from them.

The dusty captain surveyed the gathering with red rimed eyes that came to rest on the Frenchman.

Effie bubbled away to anyone who'd listen while Claire stood looking over the gathering with undisguised disdain.

But the social aspects of the gathering were of importance to the participants as well.

In two long strides he was standing before her, gathering her into his arms and kissing her.

Among the advantages of enclosures, he observes, " you will gain much more labour from your servants, a great part of whose time was taken up in gathering thistles and other garbage for their horses to feed upon in their stables; and thereby the great trampling and pulling up and other destruction of the corns while they are yet tender will be prevented."

Once you find your preferred style, you can start gathering supplies.

Accept that the family gathering won't be perfect but it's also not forever.

Before Fred could reply, or whack her in the mouth, which would have been Dean's first choice, the front doorbell interrupted the tense gathering.

This publication brought to a height the storm which had long been gathering.

In 1858, under the stimulus of Henry C. Brockmeyer, Harris became interested in modern German philosophy in general, and in particular in Hegel, whose works a small group, gathering about Harris and Brockmeyer, began to study in 1859.

Government at the same time, as an Oriental despotism understands it, often has little in view but the gathering in of the tribute and compulsion of the subjects to personal service in the army or in royal works, and if satisfied in these respects will leave much independence to the local authorities.

So great a success was scored that other shows were held in the same year at Birmingham and Edinburgh; while the Cleveland Agricultural Society also established a show of foxhounds at Redcar, the latter being the forerunner of that very fine show of hounds which is now held at Peterborough every summer and is looked upon as the out-of-season society gathering of hunting men and women.

The conference became an annual gathering of Wesley's preachers.

Since the same plant, owing to peculiarities of climate, soil and situation, degree of exposure to light and other influences may vary greatly according to the locality in which it occurs, it is only by gathering together for comparison and study a large series of examples of each species that the flora of different regions can be satisfactorily represented.

The ex-Confederate party determined to prevent the gathering, but the idea of interference by force seems to have been abandoned.

Here help was expected to arrive from England, and the tide might yet have turned, for the Russian armies were gathering in the east.

Bennigsen, now commanding the whole Russian army which with Lestocq's Prussians amounted to 100,000, also moved into winter quarters in the triangle Deutsch-Eylau-Osterode-Allenstein, and had every intention of remaining there, for a fresh army was already gathering in Russia, the 1st corps of which had reached Nur about 50 m.

In Egypt the Israelites, as a pastoral people, sacrificed the firstlings of their flocks in the spring, and, according to tradition, it was a refusal to permit a general gathering for this purpose that caused the Exodus.

Under powers secured in 1884, the town obtains its chief water supply from a gathering ground near the sources of the Taff on the old red sandstone beyond the northern out-crop of the mineral basin and on the southern slopes of the Brecknock Beacons.

The settlement here, gathering about the Methodist mission and school, began to grow in the decade 1840-1850.

After gathering the fruit all the wood not needed for extending the tree or for fruit bearing next season should be cut out so as to give the shoots left full exposure to air and light.

A durbar may be either a council for administering affairs of state, or a purely ceremonial gathering.

For this monumental work he had been gathering material for several years before the war.

The gathering exasperation of the Sienese, and notably of the middle class, against their rulers was brought to a climax by this cruel disappointment.

They lived, practically, as Kaffir chiefs, trading with Chaka and gathering round them many refugees from that monarch's tyranny.

Sir Garnet Wolseley now assured the Boers at a public gathering that so long as the sun shone the British flag would fly at Pretoria.

The concentration effected, Cronje still believed that the relief of Kimberley was the object of the gathering behind Modder River, and therefore held on to his Magersfontein kopje.

From Paris he rendered the government important service by gathering and transmitting information respecting the Jacobite plot; and in 1716 he returned to England, resumed his seat, and took frequent part in the debates.

They consisted in a gathering at the martyr's tomb on the anniversary of his death.

At Pirna the Elbe leaves behind it the stress and turmoil of the Saxon Switzerland, rolls through Dresden, with its noble river terraces, and finally, beyond Meissen, enters on its long journey across the North German plain, touching Torgau, Wittenberg, Magdeburg, Wittenberge, Hamburg, Harburg and Altona on the way, and gathering into itself the waters of the Mulde and Saale from the left, and those of the Schwarze Elster, Havel and Elde from the right.

At a convivial gathering on the, 8th of November he supported a toast to "the speedy abolition of all hereditary titles and feudal distinctions," and gave proof of his zeal by expressly repudiating his own title - a performance for which he was dismissed from the army.

In those days the frequent visitation of plagues made men fear the gathering together of multitudes.

A heterogeneous army, drawn largely from India and Australasia, had also been gathering in Egypt for several weeks past, of which portions could be made available for work elsewhere in the Near East.

In view of what had occurred the Allied Governments decided that in further operations full use must be made of the gathering army, and from this time onwards the military began to assume the principal role in the effort of the Entente to secure command of the Dardanelles.

When the first ball or " gathering 'T has cooled sufficiently, the whole is again dipped into the molten glass and a further layer adheres to the pipe-end, thus forming a larger ball.

Flashed glass is produced by taking either the first or the last gathering in the production of a cylinder out of a crucible containing the coloured " metal," the other gatherings being taken out of ordinary white sheet-glass.