GATHER IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gather in mean? 

• GATHER IN (verb)
  The verb GATHER IN has 1 sense:

1. fold up

  Familiarity information: GATHER IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GATHER IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fold up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

gather in; take in

Context example:

take in the sails

Hypernyms (to "gather in" is one way to...):

furl; roll up (form into a cylinder by rolling)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gather in"):

incorporate (unite or merge with something already in existence)

coal (take in coal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Prion diseases originate when normally harmless prion protein molecules become abnormal and gather in clusters and filaments in the human body and brain.

(NIH scientists and collaborators find infectious prion protein in skin of CJD patients, National Institutes of Health)

Prion diseases occur when normally harmless prion protein molecules become abnormal and gather in clusters and filaments in the body, including the brain.

(Experimental treatment slows prion disease, extends life of mice, National Institutes of Health)

Prion diseases originate when normally harmless prion protein molecules become abnormal and gather in clusters and filaments in the body and brain.

(Eyes of CJD patients show evidence of prions, National Institutes of Health)

For sixpence a day, at the most; while now you may walk across the country and stretch out either hand to gather in whatever you have a mind for.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those who went farther than Chicago would gather in the old dim Union Station at six o'clock of a December evening with a few Chicago friends already caught up into their own holiday gayeties to bid them a hasty goodbye.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)