gathering
sustantivoverboadjetivocorriente en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈɡæð.ə.ɹɪŋ//
- Estados Unidos//ˈɡæð.ɚ.ɪŋ//
A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
sustantivo
- 1
A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
The dinner was a star-spangled gathering unequaled in history.
I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
- 2
A group of people or things.
a gathering of Catholics
- 3
A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
- 4
A charitable contribution; a collection.
- 5
The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.
- 6
A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
Etimología
From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather + -ing (verbal noun ending).
verbo
- 1
También una forma de gatherpresent participle and gerund of gather
Etimología
From Middle English gaderynge, equivalent to gather + -ing (present participle ending).
adjetivo
- 1
That gathers together.
She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.
Formas
- plural
- gatherings
gathering · A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
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