gather vs reap

gather

verb
  • Especially, to harvest food. 

  • 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. 

  • To collect; normally separate things. 

  • 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. 

reap

verb
  • To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. 

  • To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table. 

  • To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. 

  • To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine 

noun
  • A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. 

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