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gatherings

 [gath-er-ing]  

gath·er·ing

   [gath-er-ing]
noun
1.
an assembly or meeting.
2.
an assemblage of people; group or crowd.
3.
a collection, assemblage, or compilation of anything.
4.
the act of a person or thing that gathers.
5.
something that is gathered together.
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6.
a gather or a series of gathers in cloth.
7.
an inflamed and suppurating swelling.
8.
(in a flue, duct, or the like) a tapered section forming a transition between two sections, one of which has a greater area than the other.
9.
Bookbinding. a section in a book, usually a sheet cut into several leaves.
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English gaderinge, Old English gaderunge. See gather, -ing1

Synonyms
1. assemblage. 2. congregation, concourse, company, throng. 7. boil, abscess, carbuncle.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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