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gathering

[ gath-er-ing ]

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noun

an assembly or meeting.
Synonyms:
an assemblage of people; group or crowd.
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a collection, assemblage, or compilation of anything.
the act of a person or thing that gathers.
something that is gathered together.
a gather or a series of gathers in cloth.
an inflamed and suppurating swelling.
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(in a flue, duct, or the like) a tapered section forming a transition between two sections, one of which has a greater area than the other.
Bookbinding. a section in a book, usually a sheet cut into several leaves.

gathering

/ ˈɡæðə��ɪŋ /

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First recorded before 900; Middle English gaderinge, Old English gaderunge; equivalent to gather + -ing ¹

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In Scotland, where she usually runs, she says there are normally a few hundred people gathering to watch.

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World leaders may be gathering on Saturday to pay their respects to a fellow statesman whose church has more members than their states have citizens.

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Police Scotland said it had a dedicated team gathering hundreds of pieces of evidence to build cases against those responsible for the attacks.

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However, despite appearances, this JSO gathering is going to be very different from what has gone before.

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Prior to his arrest, he had been holding gatherings across the country with a rallying call of "no reforms, no elections".

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