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assemble 'COD: come or bring together. ' round up 'FN: gather together.' bring together 'FN: cause to come together' collect 'COD: bring or gather together.' herd 'FN: to bring together a large group or class of people'
She picked up the children at the day care center pull your thoughts together gather the close family members They pick up our trash twice a week gather some stones get together all those who are interested in the project You can get the results on Monday assemble your colleagues
Examples from VerbNet
Herman whipped sugar and the cream together. Herman spliced ropes. Herman whipped cream. The sugar whipped into cream easily. The sticks bundled together easily. Herman gathered the students into a group. The sticks bundled easily. Herman gathered the students together. Herman whipped sugar with the cream.
Examples from SemCor
Nerves tight as a bowstring, he paused to gather his wits. It would be priceless to have an aircraft to gather that post-attack reconnaissance. Your local civil_defense will gather its own information and will receive broad information from and Federal sources. Next we freeze over the oceans and cover the whole earth with peas, then we go out among the neighboring stars, collect 250 planets each the size of the earth, and also cover each of these with peas four feet deep; and_then we have septillion. The cops would gather_up Connor and the foursome on the third floor and bring us those of them who would voluntarily submit to fingerprinting. If he had had a son, he would tell him,`` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. All the sins of ancient Rome are said to be collected into this three-hour film. Moisture ran_down the cheeks, gathered at the tip of the nose, and at the chin. Under the sponsorship of the Office_of_Naval_Research and the Advanced_Research_Projects_Agency, a data center was established to gather and index all published information on atomic transition probabilities. They want to be fat cats, Pam thought, and lighted a cigarette and leaned_back on a chaise and considered pulling her thoughts together. `` Where did you pick him up''? They gathered roots, bulbs, odd ferns, leaves, and bits of resin from the rare Santa_Lucia_fir, which exists only on a forty-five mile strip on the westerly side of these mountains. He called the bar and grill where he had picked Burton up that afternoon. One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long). She had been one of the first to collect her wits. It was her work to go among her neighbors and collect their checks. Since the strength of the Mexicans had been underrated, too small a posse had been collected, and since the deputy had not been provided with search_warrants, MacPherson and his men decided it was much wiser to withdraw. The Pilgrims gathered to thank the Lord for His benevolence during their first year in the new land. The men helped them gather their belongings and escorted them to Raton along with three other families desiring to leave. And she felt amply rewarded for her suffering when the evidence of Lee 's quack shenanigans, gathered by the tape_recorder under her friend 's clothing, proved adequate in court for convicting Franklin_D._Lee. Much information has been gathered relative to quantitative sampling and assessment techniques. In the Spanish days Franciscan monks roamed here to collect the resin for incense. NBC had gathered a_lot of historical material which it was eager to share. A measure of the total mass accretion of meteoritic material by the Earth is obtained from analyses of deep sea sediments and dust collected in remote regions( Pettersson, 1960). Statistically, the most significant data have been collected from the sensors on 1958 Alpha( Explorer_1,), 1958 Delta_2( Sputnik 3,), and 1959 Eta( Vanguard 3,). ``' And let me go, for the night gathers me, and in the night shall no man gather fruit'''. He assembled a group of 25 men, composed of wounded troopers awaiting evacuation, the company clerk, supply men, cooks and drivers, and led them to the hill. What I meant to say was that I started to start in on the dishes by gathering them all_together in the kitchen_sink. Presumably a cocktail_party is expected to fulfill the host 's desire to get_together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors. Other flowers we might gather as we pleased: myrtle and white_violets from beneath the lilacs; the lilacs themselves, that bloomed so prodigally but for_the_most_part beyond our reach; snowballs; hollyhock blossoms that, turned upside_down, make pink petticoated ladies; and the little, dark_blue larkspur that scattered its seed everywhere. The Secretary_of_the_Interior or any duly authorized representative shall be entitled to admission to, and to require reports from the operator of, any metal or nonmetallic mine which is in a State( excluding any coal or lignite mine), the products of_which regularly enter commerce or the operations of_which substantially affect commerce, for the purpose of gathering data and information necessary for the study authorized in the first section of_this Act. Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now. The Orioles once_again performed at the plate in powderpuff fashion, gathering only seven blows off the offerings of three Kansas_City pitchers. I can drop you back here to pick mine up''. All this will serve to show_off the Ory style in fine fashion and is a must for those who want to collect elements of the old-time jazz before it is too late to lay_hands_on the gems. Eight years ago while we were going_through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid_out nearby for the lord and master 's delectation. The day 's sun was gathering its strength in gold, and she wished she had brought her parasol, if only to shade Doaty 's flowers. He was not the sort of sailor Hudson wanted his backers to see and he had Greene wait at Gravesend, where the Discovery picked him up. Bankers who had been reluctant to lend without better security than the house itself got that security from the U._S. government; householders who had been unable to pick_up the burden of short-term high interest mortgages found they could borrow for twenty-five years at 4 per_cent, under government aegis. As the play unfolds, however, the audience is subtly brought into the grip of an awful evil which grows with ominously gathering power and soon engulfs the community. Reverend_Joshual_Corder, a Baptist minister, gathered a_few citizens of Southern sympathies, to call_on Jones and plead with him to spare the structure; he reasoned and argued, pointing_out that Jones or other Confederate commanders would need it should troops pass that way in retreat. These vehicles, with large sensitive areas, have collected data for long enough times to give reliable impact rates for the periods of exposure. Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground, while Joseph_of_Arimathea was at Pontius_Pilate 's asking for Christ 's body, Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes, and the others had gone_home to mourn. Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose tea to drink; the peonies, whose tight sticky buds would be blighted by the laying_on of_a finger, although they were not apparently harmed by the ants that crawled over them; and the poppies. `` Where did you gather all this information, Heiser?