Gather

Definition

gather / 'gæðǝ(r) / v ၁။ (က) ~ round (sb/sth) ; ~ sb/sth round (sb/sth) စုသည္။ စု႐ံုးသည္။ A crowd soon gathered. ❍ Gather round (ie Form a group round me) and listen, children! ❍ We used to have musical evenings with the whole family gathered round the piano. (ခ) ~ sth (together/up) စုစည္းသည္။ သိမ္းသည္။ Give me a moment to gather my notes. ❍ She gathered together/up her scattered belongings and left. ၂။ (က) ~ sth (from sth) ေကာက္သည္။ စုသည္။ gather wild flowers/berries/nuts ❍ ( fig ) information gathered from various sources. (ခ) ~ sth (in) ခူးသည္။ ဆြတ္သည္။ ရိတ္ သိမ္းသည္။ The harvest has been safely gathered in. ၃။ ~ sth (from sb/sth) နားလည္သည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ သိသည္။ I gather (that) you wanted to see me. ❍ 'I'm very angry. ' 'I gathered that from your letter. ' ❍ ' I gathered from the way she replied that she wasn't very enthusiastic. ❍ 'She won't be coming. ' 'So I gather. ' ၄။ ~ sth round one/sth ; ~ sth up ဆြဲၿခံဳသည္။ ဆြဲသည္။ She gathered the shawl round her/round her shoulders. ❍ She gathered up her skirts and ran. ၅။ သိမ္းက်ံဳး ေပြ႕ဖက္သည္။ ပိုက္ေပြ႕သည္။ He gathered her in his arms and kissed her. ❍ She shivered and he gathered her close. ၆။ (ခြန္အား၊ အႀကံဉာဏ္စသည္) အစြမ္းကုန္ အားစိုက္၍ စုစည္းသည္။ He gathered all his strength and swung the axe. ❍ She sat trying to gather her thoughts before the interview. ၇။ ~ sth (in) အတြန္႔ထည့္သည္။ ေဒါက္ထည့္ သည္။ a skirt gathered (in) at the waist. ၈။ (မုန္တိုင္း) ဆင္သည္။ (ေမွာင္စ) ပ်ဳိးသည္။ (အရိွန္) ျမန္လာသည္။ The darkness/storm is gathering. ❍ in the gathering gloom of a winter's afternoon ❍ The car gathered speed. n အတြန္႔။ ❏ gatherer / 'gæðǝrǝ(r) / n ေကာက္ပဲသီးႏွံစသည္ ရွာေဖြ စုေဆာင္းသူ။ prehistoric hunters and gatherers. ❏ gathering / 'gæðǝrÇŋ / n ေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲ။ a small family gathering ❍ a gathering of friends.

Examples

1. A crowd gathered outside the hotel.
2. Football fans gathered around the TV in the corner of the bar.
3. She gathered her children and ran for shelter.
4. There were 60
5. 000 fans gathered in the stadium.
6. Our report is based on information gathered from all parts of the country.
7. The police have been gathering evidence against him.
8. I need to gather together our tax documents.
9. They live by gathering shellfish and snails.
10. Bees were gathering pollen from the wild flowers.
11. The train pulled away slowly
12. then gathered speed.
13. Gathering her robe around her
14. Maria ran upstairs.
15. She gathered her hair into a knot at the back of her head.
16. You’re new here
17. I gather.
18. From what I can gather she’s madly in love with him.
19. [gather (that)] : I gather that the storm caused a power failure.
20. The dress is gathered at the waist with elastic.