The difference between Gather and Get up

When used as verbs, gather means to collect, whereas get up means to move in an upwards direction.

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 Gather and Get up

  1. 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."

  2. 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"

  3. 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."

  4. 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."

  5. Gather as a verb (glassblowing):

    To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

  6. Gather as a verb:

    To gain; to win.

  1. Gather as a noun:

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

  2. Gather as a noun:

    The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

  3. Gather as a noun:

    The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).

  4. Gather as a noun (glassblowing):

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

  5. Gather as a noun:

    A gathering.

  1. Get up as a verb (literally):

    To move in an upwards direction; to ascend or climb.

    Examples:

    "The tired horse eventually got up and over the hurdle."

    "I'm having difficulty getting up the stairs."

  2. Get up as a verb:

    To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).

    Examples:

    "I didn't get up until midday."

  3. Get up as a verb:

    To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.

    Examples:

    "Get up off the couch and clean this mess!"

  4. Get up as a verb:

    To materialise; to grow stronger.

    Examples:

    "As dusk fell a storm got up."

  5. Get up as a verb:

    To bring together, amass.

    Examples:

    "The general got up a large body of men."

  6. Get up as a verb:

    To gather or grow larger by accretion.

    Examples:

    "The locomotive got up a good head of steam."

    "I could see that he was getting up a temper."

  7. Get up as a verb (sports):

    To go towards the attacking goal.

  8. Get up as a verb (UK, Australia, colloquial):

    To criticise.

    Examples:

    "He got up me about the mess I made in the kitchen."

  9. Get up as a verb (colloquial):

    To annoy.

  10. Get up as a verb:

    To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.

    Examples:

    "She was all got up in the most ridiculous frilly dress."

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