gather vs shower

gather

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

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

verb
  • 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 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. 

shower

noun
  • A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower. 

  • A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade). 

  • A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts. 

  • A baby shower. 

  • An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself. 

  • Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier 

  • One who shows. 

  • An object or activity that is shown in a contest. 

  • A bridal shower. 

  • A shower of shit. 

  • A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid, or the penis itself. 

  • A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump. 

verb
  • To rain in a shower; to cascade down. 

  • To spray with (a specified liquid). 

  • To bathe using a shower. 

  • To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance. 

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