Assembled vs. Gathered — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Assembled and Gathered
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Definitions
Assembled
To bring or call together into a group or whole
The bailiff assembled the jury.
Gathered
To collect from different places; assemble
Gather the pieces of a puzzle.
Gather information.
Assembled
To fit together the parts or pieces of
Assemble a machine.
Assemble data.
Gathered
To cause to come together; convene
The teacher gathered the students around the exhibit.
Assembled
To gather together; congregate
Protesters assembled on the common.
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Gathered
To draw (something or someone) closer to oneself
Gathered the shawl about my shoulders.
Gathered the child in her arms.
Assembled
Simple past tense and past participle of assemble
Gathered
To draw into small folds or puckers, as by pulling a thread through cloth.
Assembled
Brought together into a group or crowd.
Gathered
To contract and wrinkle (the brow).
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Assembled
Formed by fitting or joining components together.
Gathered
To harvest or pick
Gather crops.
Gather mushrooms.
Assembled
Brought together into a group or crowd;
The accumulated letters in my office
Gathered
To conclude or infer, as from evidence
I gather a decision has not been reached.
Assembled
Formed by fitting or joining components together
Gathered
To summon up; muster
Gathered up his courage.
Gathered
To accumulate (something) gradually; amass
The top of the bookshelf gathered dust.
Gathered
To attract or be the center of attraction for
The jugglers gathered a large crowd.
Gathered
To gain by a process of gradual increase
Gather speed.
Gathered
To pick up or collect (molten glass) using a tool in glassblowing.
Gathered
To come together in a group; assemble
A crowd gathered in the lobby.
Gathered
To accumulate
Dark clouds are gathering.
Gathered
To grow or increase by degrees
The truck's speed gathered on the downslope.
Gathered
To come to a head, as a boil; fester.
Gathered
To forage for wild foodstuffs.
Gathered
The act or an instance of gathering.
Gathered
A small fold or pucker made by gathering cloth.
Gathered
A mass of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe or other glassblowing tool.
Gathered
Simple past tense and past participle of gather
Gathered
(Quakerism) focused, centered, achieving a state of shared mysticism.
Gathered
Having accumulated or become more intense;
The deepened gloom
Gathered
Brought together in one place;
The collected works of Milton
The gathered folds of the skirt
