gather vs partition

gather

verb
  • To collect; normally separate things. 

  • To grow gradually larger by accretion. 

  • To bring stitches closer together. 

  • To collect molten glass on the end of a tool. 

  • To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. 

  • To haul in; to take up. 

  • To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. 

  • To congregate, or assemble. 

  • Especially, to harvest food. 

  • To bring parts of a whole closer. 

  • To gain; to win. 

  • To be filled with pus 

  • To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. 

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

noun
  • The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). 

  • A gathering. 

  • The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. 

  • A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe. 

  • A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. 

partition

verb
  • To divide something into parts, sections or shares. 

  • To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status. 

  • To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off. 

noun
  • A vertical structure that divides a room. 

  • An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are. 

  • A musical score. 

  • An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another. 

  • A part of something that has been divided. 

  • A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment. 

  • That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space. 

  • The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law. 

  • The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones. 

  • A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts. 

  • A section of a hard disk separately formatted. 

  • A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets). 

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