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Mob vs. Gathering — What's the Difference?

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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