Mob vs. Gathering — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mob and Gathering
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Mob
A large and often disorderly crowd. ]
Gathering
An assembly or meeting, especially one held for a specific purpose
A family gathering
Mob
A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
Gathering
A group of leaves taken together, one inside another, in binding a book.
Mob
(archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
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Gathering
The action of one that gathers.
Mob
(collective noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
Gathering
That which is gathered or amassed; a collection or accumulation.
Mob
(collective noun) A group of kangaroos.
Gathering
An assembly of persons; a meeting.
Mob
(collective noun) A flock of emus.
Gathering
The collecting of food that grows wild, such as berries, roots, and grains.
Mob
A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
Gathering
A gather in cloth.
Mob
(video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
Gathering
A suppurated swelling; a boil or abscess.
Mob
(Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
Gathering
A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
Mob
(obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
Gathering
A group of people or things.
A gathering of fruit.
Mob
A mob cap.
Gathering
(bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
Mob
Abbr of mobile phone
Gathering
A charitable contribution; a collection.
Mob
(transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
Gathering
(uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
Mob
(transitive) To crowd into or around a place.
The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
Gathering
(medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
Mob
(transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
Gathering
Present participle of gather
Mob
A mobcap.
Gathering
That gathers together.
She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.
Mob
The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.
Gathering
The act of collecting or bringing together.
Mob
A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
Confused by brainless mobs.
Gathering
That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
Mob
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
Gathering
Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
Mob
To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
Gathering
A group of persons together in one place
Mob
A disorderly crowd of people
Gathering
The social act of assembling;
They demanded the right of assembly
Mob
A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Gathering
The act of gathering something
Mob
An association of criminals;
Police tried to break up the gang
A pack of thieves
Gathering
Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
Mob
Press tightly together or cram;
The crowd packed the auditorium
Gathering
Accumulating and becoming more intense;
The deepening gloom
Felt a deepening love
The gathering darkness
The thickening dusk
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