Gather

I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.

She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.

We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.

Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.

People gathered round as he began to tell his story.

Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, […]

At the north-western most of Iran, to the south of Maku, is the Church of Qara Kelisa (meaning the Black Church) in a village of the same name. Here is reputed to be the burialplace of St. Thaddeus and every year thousands of Armenians gather there for prayer.

Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.

She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.

A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.

Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.

If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.

to gather the slack of a rope

From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.

I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.

Press reports of the length of time the bridge is likely to be out of action vary greatly, but Mr. Farr gathers that a temporary structure may be ready in six months; complete reconstruction, however, will take at least two years. [It was never rebuilt or replaced, and demolished instead.]

Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.

"I'll tell you all about it at the Gather, win or lose."

What bothered him more, he thought as he started Washoe southward, was Spikes's animosity, the bearded man's sudden violent reaction to his arrival at the gather.