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gathering English

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What does gathering mean?
Definitions in simple English

gathering

A gathering is an assembly or meeting of a group of people.

gathering

a group of persons together in one place (= assembly) the social act of assembling they demanded the right of assembly (= gather) the act of gathering something (= gather) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

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Simple sentences

The squirrel was busy gathering nuts.
The radio warned us of the coming earthquake and we started gathering our things.
This party is an intimate gathering.
Black clouds are gathering. It's going to rain.
I think that Japanese students are very good at gathering knowledge.
A crowd was gathering around him.
They are gathering nuts.
We had to postpone the gathering because of rain.
This house has been gathering dust for who knows how many years.
The storm is gathering in intensity.
The vacationers are gathering on the beach.
Mary is gathering flowers in the forest.
The sunworshippers are gathering on the beach.
The rain compelled us to put off the gathering.
The gathering will be large if the weather is good.
Magic: The Gathering is a board game.
People are gathering.
People are gathering outside.
I was gathering lingonberries.

Movie subtitles

Hey, thanks Evan, for gathering my voters for me. Evan!
Hey, thanks, Evan for gathering my voters for me.
And after the gathering they might, for instance, sneak into a barn and bewitch a cow.
Just fine. Say, Black Elk was telling me that all the Indians in the West was gathering to keep you all from passing through.
Ladislaw, are we gathering later?
I am gathering data on the antics of the anthropoid ape for the Museum of Natural History.
I mean, the heirs, and the family lawyer all gathering to hear the reading of the will.
And for a widow to appear in public at a social gathering. every time I think of it, I feel faint.
Two months I've spent gathering mold in this place - and for what?
Bald Mountain, according to tradition, is the gathering place of Satan and his followers.
People gathering in the street. They want you to make a speech.
I'm just sort of. gathering myself together.
A crowd was gathering in the plaza before the city hall.
You see these different peoples, or symbols of people, gathering the four elements of life: Water, fire, earth, air, around a fifth one.
Not now. I'm gathering information on my own.
For the 2nd Congress of Soviets delegates were gathering.
Say, Black Elk was telling me that all the Injuns in the West was gathering to keep you all from passing' through.
The Injuns are gathering to the westward to stop us from going through.
I was wool gathering.
Quite a gathering of the clans.
He apparently was gathering some wildflowers. Did you hear him call to his wife?
And for a widow to appear in public at a social gathering every time I think of it, I feel faint.
The signal fires are burning. and the tribes are gathering from every part of the west.
What a gathering of the clan.
The family circle gathering for Christmas.
People gathering in the street.
Say, what is this gathering of the clan?
This is just a business gathering. - Huh?
Pardon me, I was just wool gathering a little.
Gathering a few aces, I hope.
I feel the wickedness of this house gathering around.
You ought to see our Oban gathering in peacetime.
Remember the General's instructions about gathering in groups.
I took the liberty of gathering your various debts.
Friends who have been so kind as to make this gathering possible. The hour grows late.. and we must part.
The reason for this informal gathering was the news on the radio tonight that you are wanted for murder.

News and current affairs

The core objective would be to interrupt the emergence of a threat that is still gathering.
In a few days, I will join 300 global leaders in Abu Dhabi for the world's first vaccine summit - a gathering dedicated to ensuring that all children everywhere have access to vaccines.
That is why we are assessing different methods for gathering data from the field, including the use of mobile applications to digitize paper records.
Will it really be necessary for Ukrainians to repeat the Orange Revolution by again gathering in their millions to shame Yanukovych (a twice convicted violent felon before he entered politics) to change course?
I find it intriguing to go back almost 200 years and consider Britain's political economy when the First Industrial Revolution was gathering steam.
HONG KONG - I just spent a week in China, where I participated in the Boao Asia Forum, a conference similar to the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
President Jiang returned recently to that global gathering of business leaders but, thankfully, a repeat of that appeasement did not occur.
When the Washington Post published (along with The Guardian) the information that Snowden provided, it asked Americans whether they support or oppose the NSA's intelligence-gathering program.
Indeed, the confrontation with the Iranians in Iraq is visibly intensifying, and it may be gathering strength elsewhere as well.
A decade ago, when the last such gathering was held, the private sector was scarcely represented.
But these buffers would be severely strained if the gathering storms converged into a single devastating gale.
Finally, the Ayodhya mosque was demolished in December 1992 during a mass gathering organized by the BJP.
Draghi made that very point in his speech at the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in late August, and several economists have suggested that it is time for the eurozone to engineer a temporary fiscal expansion.
Rather, it is the extent of US intelligence gathering and America's attitude toward allies that is most damaging.
Nice start, and the credit goes both to Obama and to the millions of Americans who stood up and took risks to fight against gathering tyranny.
The pressure on African governments to enact legislation against terrorism may pose new threats to civil liberties at the very moment when democratization is gathering momentum.
The US economy is probably in recession, clouds are gathering over its pension and health-care systems, and its military budget may not make sense even in strategic terms.
GENEVA - Is China an island of stability in the midst of the gathering global financial storm, or will it, too, soon be sucked into the vortex?
TOKYO - While the world focuses on the gathering of cardinals in Rome to choose a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, a similar conclave is underway in Tokyo to choose the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) next governor.
A gathering of the modern equivalents of Metternich, Castlereagh, Alexander I, and Talleyrand is also a dream: there are none.
It is in the nature of complex data-gathering programs that no one really has an overview.
Five hundred thousand years of experience in hunting and gathering, coupled with cheaper and faster molecular analysis, performed by faster and cheaper computers makes this task economically feasible.
When I left the Vilnius meeting in 2013, I could certainly see storm clouds gathering, but I did not know that Putin was prepared to unleash so much aggression and turmoil.
When their initial gathering ends, they will host their counterparts from across the region, including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
For example, at the first trilateral summit, held in May 2008, as the global economic crisis was gathering pace, currency-swap arrangements were agreed upon among the three powers.

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