Gathering vs. Party — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Gathering and Party
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Definitions
Gathering
An assembly or meeting, especially one held for a specific purpose
A family gathering
Party
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will typically feature food and beverages, and often music and dancing or other forms of entertainment.
Gathering
A group of leaves taken together, one inside another, in binding a book.
Party
A social gathering especially for pleasure or amusement
A birthday party.
Gathering
The action of one that gathers.
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Party
A group of people who have gathered to participate in an activity
A search party.
Gathering
That which is gathered or amassed; a collection or accumulation.
Party
A group of soldiers selected for a duty or mission
A raiding party.
Gathering
An assembly of persons; a meeting.
Party
An established political group organized to promote and support its principles and candidates for public office.
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Gathering
The collecting of food that grows wild, such as berries, roots, and grains.
Party
A person or group involved in an enterprise; a participant or accessory
I refuse to be a party to your silly scheme.
Gathering
A gather in cloth.
Party
(Law) A person or entity that participates in a transaction, makes a contract, or is involved in a lawsuit as a litigant.
Gathering
A suppurated swelling; a boil or abscess.
Party
A subscriber to a telephone party line.
Gathering
A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
Party
A person using a telephone.
Gathering
A group of people or things.
A gathering of fruit.
Party
A person
"And though Grainger was a spry old party, such steps couldn't be his" (Anthony Hyde).
Gathering
(bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
Party
Of, relating to, or participating in an established political organization
Party members.
Party politics.
Gathering
A charitable contribution; a collection.
Party
Suitable for use at a social gathering
Party dresses.
A party hat.
Gathering
(uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
Party
Characteristic of a pleasurable social gathering
A party atmosphere.
Gathering
(medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
Party
To celebrate or carouse at a party or similar gathering
That night we partied until dawn.
Gathering
Present participle of gather
Party
(legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
Gathering
That gathers together.
She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.
Party
A person.
Gathering
The act of collecting or bringing together.
Party
A person; an individual.
He is a queer party.
Gathering
That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
Party
With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour.
Gathering
Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
Party
A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
Gathering
A group of persons together in one place
Party
Active player characters organized into a single group.
Gathering
The social act of assembling;
They demanded the right of assembly
Party
(video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
Gathering
The act of gathering something
Party
(politics) A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
The green party took 12% of the vote.
Gathering
Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
Party
(military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.
Gathering
Accumulating and becoming more intense;
The deepening gloom
Felt a deepening love
The gathering darkness
The thickening dusk
Party
A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
Party
A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.
Party
A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
We're expecting a large party from the London office.
Do you have a table available for a party of four?
Party
A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
Tupperware party
Lingerie party
Party
A small group of birds or mammals.
Party
(obsolete) A part or division.
Party
(intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
We partied until the early hours.
Party
To take recreational drugs.
Party
(intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
Party
To form a party (with).
If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
Party
Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them.
Party
Divided; in part.
Party
(heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
An escutcheon party per pale
Party
A part or portion.
Party
A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.
Win the noble Brutus to our party.
The peace both parties want is like to last.
Party
A part of a larger body of company; a detachment;
Party
A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
Party
One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
Party
The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
The cause of both parties shall come before the judges.
Party
Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.
If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony.
Party
Cause; side; interest.
Have you nothing saidUpon this Party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?
Party
A person; as, he is a queer party.
Party
Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
Party
Partial; favoring one party; partisan.
I will be true judge, and not party.
Party
Partly.
Party
An organization to gain political power;
In 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level
Party
An occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment;
He planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day
Party
A band of people associated temporarily in some activity;
They organized a party to search for food
The company of cooks walked into the kitchen
Party
A group of people gathered together for pleasure;
She joined the party after dinner
Party
A person involved in legal proceedings;
The party of the first part
Party
Have or participate in a party;
The students were partying all night before the exam