gathering

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gath=er=ing
• COUNT in NET: 21 in 21 verses (in OT : 12 in 12 verses) (in NT : 9 in 9 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

gathering, n. 

•  The act of collecting or bringing together.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is gathered, collected, or brought together  [1913 Webster]

gathering, a. 

 Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.  [1913 Webster]

Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gathering, n.
1 an assembly or meeting.
2 a purulent swelling.
3 a group of leaves taken together in bookbinding.

THESAURUS

gathering

Smyth sewing, abscess, accumulation, acervation, affair, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, aposteme, apotheosis, article, articulation, ascension, assemblage, assemblee, assembling, assembly, assignation, assumption, at home, back matter, backing, ball, bed sore, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bond, book, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, bracketing, brawl, bringing together, bubo, bulla, bunch, bunion, call-up, canker, canker sore, canvass, carbuncle, case, casemaking, casing-in, caucus, census, chancre, chancroid, chapter, chilblain, chunk, clause, clustering, cold sore, collating, collating mark, collection, colligation, collocation, colloquium, combination, commission, committee, communication, company, comparison, concatenation, conclave, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregation, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conventicle, convention, convergence, convocation, copulation, corralling, council, coupling, cover, crew, crop, cropping, crowd, crush, cumulation, cutting, dance, data-gathering, date, diet, dust cover, dust jacket, eisteddfod, eschar, fascicle, felon, fester, festering, festivity, fete, fever blister, fistula, flock, folding, folio, footband, forgathering, forum, front matter, furuncle, furunculus, gang, get-together, gleaning, glomeration, gluing-off, gob, group, gumboil, hard binding, harvest, harvesting, headband, hemorrhoids, hookup, horde, housewarming, hunk, ingathering, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, inventory, jacket, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, kibe, knotting, lesion, levee, liaison, library binding, lining, lining-up, linkage, linking, lump, marriage, mass, matinee, mechanical binding, meet, meeting, merger, merging, mobilization, muster, niggerhead, number, nutting, page, pairing, panel, papula, papule, paragraph, paronychia, party, parulis, passage, perfect binding, petechia, phrase, piles, pimple, plastic binding, plenum, pock, polyp, press, prom, pustule, quorum, rally, reaping, reception, rendezvous, resurrection, reunion, rising, rodeo, rounding, roundup, rout, ruck, saddle stitching, salon, scab, seance, section, sentence, session, sewing, sheet, shindig, side sewing, signature, sit-in, sitting, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, snowball, sociable, social, social affair, social gathering, soft binding, soft chancre, soiree, sore, spiral binding, splice, stamping, stapling, stigma, stockpile, sty, suppuration, survey, swarm, swelling, symbiosis, symposium, synod, tailband, text, the Ascension, the Assumption, tie, tie-in, tie-up, tipping, translation, trimming, tubercle, turnout, ulcer, ulceration, unification, union, verse, wad, wake, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wire stitching, wound, wrapper, yoking

ROGET THESAURUS

gathering

Disease

N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Shade

N shade, awning, parasol, sunshade, umbrella, chick, portiere, screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil, chador, mantle, mask, cloud, mist, gathering, of clouds, umbrage, glade, shadow, beach umbrella, folding umbrella, shady, umbrageous, welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail.