To come together; to collect; to unite; to become
assembled; to congregate.

To grow larger by accretion; to increase.

To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a
conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove;
to infer; to conclude.

To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a
rope.

To gain; to win.

To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to
contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a
garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to
pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate
things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to
muster; to congregate.

f. toplamak, toplanmak, yığmak. The children gathered in the schoolyard. (Çocuklar okul bahçesinde toplandılar.)

To pick out and bring together from among what is of
less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off;
to pluck.

To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as
where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of
the flue, or the like.