The difference between Accrue and Gather
When used as nouns, accrue means something that accrues, whereas gather means a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it.
When used as verbs, accrue means to increase, to augment, whereas gather means to collect.
check bellow for the other definitions of Accrue and Gather
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Accrue as a verb (intransitive):
To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
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Accrue as a verb (intransitive, accounting):
To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
Examples:
"The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses."
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Accrue as a verb (transitive):
to accumulate
Examples:
"He has accrued nine sick days."
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Accrue as a verb (intransitive, legal):
To become an enforceable and permanent right.
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Accrue as a noun (obsolete):
Something that accrues; advantage accruing
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Gather as a verb (intransitive):
To collect; normally separate things. Especially, to harvest food. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. To congregate, or assemble. To grow gradually larger by accretion.
Examples:
"I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with."
"She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair."
"We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane."
"Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs."
"People gathered round as he began to tell his story."
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Gather as a verb (sewing):
To bring parts of a whole closer. To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. To bring stitches closer together. 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. To haul in; to take up.
Examples:
"She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold."
"A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped."
"Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting."
"If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline."
"to gather the slack of a rope"
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Gather as a verb:
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
Examples:
"From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well."
"I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match."
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Gather as a verb (intransitive, medicine, of a [[boil]] or [[sore]]):
To be filled with pus
Examples:
"Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst."
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Gather as a verb (glassblowing):
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
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Gather as a verb:
To gain; to win.
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Gather as a noun:
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
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Gather as a noun:
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
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Gather as a noun:
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
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Gather as a noun (glassblowing):
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
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Gather as a noun:
A gathering.