Gather

Gather, gatherer, or gathering may refer to:

In anthropology and sociology:

  • Hunter-gatherer, a person or a society whose subsistence depends on hunting and gathering of wild foods
  • Intensive gathering, the practice of cultivating wild plants as a step toward domestication
  • Harvesting crops

In the arts:

  • Global gathering, a music festival in the United Kingdom
  • Ricochet Gathering, a music event in the United States
  • Tribal Gathering, a music festival in the United Kingdom

Other uses:

  • Gather (sewing), an area where fabric is folded or bunched together with thread or yarn
  • Gather (knitting), a generic term for one of several knitting techniques to draw stitches closer together
  • Gather.com, a social networking website
  • Gathering (bookbinding), a number of sheets of paper folded and sewn or glued as a group into a bookbinding
  • Gathering of Developers, sometimes called as 'Gathering'
  • Rag gatherer, an archaic occupation, also known as rag picker
  • Gathering, any type of party or meeting, including:
      • Bee (gathering), an old term which describes a group of people coming together for a task
      • Salon (gathering), a party associated with French and Italian intellectuals


Famous quotes containing the word gather:

    The poppy that my heart was,
    formed to bind all mortals,
    made to strike and gather hearts
    like flame upon an altar,
    fades and shrinks, a red leaf
    drenched and torn in the cold rain.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Rather,
    they gather the blue
    objects of the world
    and construct from them

    a nest—
    James Tate (b. 1943)

    Come gather round me Parnellites
    And praise our chosen man,
    Stand upright on your legs awhile,
    Stand upright while you can,
    For soon we lie where he is laid
    And he is underground....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)