gather vs run through

gather

verb
  • To haul in; to take up. 

  • 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 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. 

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. 

run through

verb
  • To go through hastily. 

  • To repeat something. 

  • To summarise briefly. 

  • To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money. 

  • Of a waterway, to flow through an area. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through. 

  • To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword. 

  • To fuck. 

  • To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry 

  • To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system. 

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