gathering

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.

2. 2
   noun

   A group of people or things.

   a gathering of Catholics

3. 3
   noun

   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. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   That gathers together.

   She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.

6. 6
   noun

   the act of gathering something

7. 7
   noun

   the social act of assembling

8. 8
   noun

   sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

Etymology

From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather + -ing (verbal noun ending).