The difference between Add up and Gather
When used as verbs, add up means to take a sum, whereas gather means to collect.
Gather is also noun with the meaning: a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it.
check bellow for the other definitions of Add up and Gather
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Add up as a verb (transitive):
To take a sum.
Examples:
"usex Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost."
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Add up as a verb (intransitive):
To accumulate; to amount to.
Examples:
"usex If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year."
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Add up as a verb (idiomatic, intransitive):
To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
Examples:
"usex His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?"
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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.