Gather vs. Harvest — What's the Difference?

Come together; assemble or accumulate

Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulse for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper.

Bring together and take in from scattered places or sources

The act or process of gathering a crop.

Increase in (speed, force, etc.)

The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.

Infer; understand

The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.

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

The time or season of such gathering

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

The result or consequence of an action

A part of a garment that is gathered.

To gather (a crop)

To collect from different places; assemble

To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.

To cause to come together; convene

To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation

To draw (something or someone) closer to oneself

To gather a crop from (land, for example)

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

To receive or collect (energy)

To contract and wrinkle (the brow).

To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action)

To harvest or pick

To gather a crop.

To conclude or infer, as from evidence

The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

To summon up; muster

The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.

To accumulate (something) gradually; amass

The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.

To attract or be the center of attraction for

The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.

To gain by a process of gradual increase

(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.

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

(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.

To come together in a group; assemble

(transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

To accumulate

To kill for meat, slaughter.

To grow or increase by degrees

(intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest

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

(transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

To forage for wild foodstuffs.

The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

The act or an instance of gathering.

That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.

A small fold or pucker made by gathering cloth.

The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

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

To reap or gather, as any crop.

To collect; normally separate things.

The yield from plants in a single growing season

Especially, to harvest food.

The consequence of an effort or activity;

To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

The gathering of a ripened crop

(intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.

The season for gathering crops

(intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

Gather, as of natural products;

To bring parts of a whole closer.

Remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation;

(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;