Gathering vs. Harvest — What's the Difference?

An assembly or meeting, especially one held for a specific purpose

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.

A group of leaves taken together, one inside another, in binding a book.

The act or process of gathering a crop.

The action of one that gathers.

The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.

That which is gathered or amassed; a collection or accumulation.

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

An assembly of persons; a meeting.

The time or season of such gathering

The collecting of food that grows wild, such as berries, roots, and grains.

The result or consequence of an action

A gather in cloth.

To gather (a crop)

A suppurated swelling; a boil or abscess.

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

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

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

A group of people or things.

To gather a crop from (land, for example)

(bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

To receive or collect (energy)

A charitable contribution; a collection.

To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action)

(uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.

To gather a crop.

(medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

Present participle of gather

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

That gathers together.

The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.

The act of collecting or bringing together.

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

That which is gathered, collected, or brought together

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

Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

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

A group of persons together in one place

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

The social act of assembling;

To kill for meat, slaughter.

The act of gathering something

(intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest

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

(transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

Accumulating and becoming more intense;

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.

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

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

To reap or gather, as any crop.

The yield from plants in a single growing season

The consequence of an effort or activity;

The gathering of a ripened crop

The season for gathering crops

Gather, as of natural products;

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