Forage vs. Gather — What's the Difference?

Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage.While the term forage has a broad definition, the term forage crop is used to define crops, annual or biennial, which are grown to be utilized by grazing or harvesting as a whole crop.

Come together; assemble or accumulate

Plant material that livestock graze or that is cut and fed to them.

Bring together and take in from scattered places or sources

The act of looking or searching for food or provisions.

Increase in (speed, force, etc.)

To wander in search of food or provisions.

Infer; understand

To search for a particular food or foods, often in the wild

Summon up (a mental or physical attribute) for a purpose

To make a raid, as for food

Draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it

To conduct a search; rummage

A part of a garment that is gathered.

To collect forage from; strip of food or supplies

To collect from different places; assemble

(Informal) To obtain by foraging

To cause to come together; convene

Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.

To draw (something or someone) closer to oneself

An act or instance of foraging.

To draw into small folds or puckers, as by pulling a thread through cloth.

(obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population

To contract and wrinkle (the brow).

To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.

To harvest or pick

To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.

To conclude or infer, as from evidence

To rummage.

To summon up; muster

Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.

To accumulate (something) gradually; amass

The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.

To attract or be the center of attraction for

Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.

To gain by a process of gradual increase

To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.

To pick up or collect (molten glass) using a tool in glassblowing.

To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.

To come together in a group; assemble

Animal food for browsing or grazing

To accumulate

The act of searching for food and provisions

To grow or increase by degrees

Collect or look around for (food)

To come to a head, as a boil; fester.

Wander and feed;

To forage for wild foodstuffs.

The act or an instance of gathering.

A small fold or pucker made by gathering cloth.

A mass of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe or other glassblowing tool.

To collect; normally separate things.

Especially, to harvest food.

To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

(intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.

(intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

To bring parts of a whole closer.

(sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.

(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

(architecture) 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.

(nautical) To haul in; to take up.

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

To be filled with pus

(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

To gain; to win.

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

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

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

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

A gathering.

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.

To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.

To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.

To gain; to win.

To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.

To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.

To grow larger by accretion; to increase.

To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

To collect or bring things together.

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

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

Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

The act of gathering something

Assemble or get together;

Collect in one place;

Collect or gather;

Conclude from evidence;

Draw fabric together and sew it tightly

Get people together;

Look for (food) in nature;