All scientific disciplines begin with "stamp collecting" (in other words, gathering examples without really knowing what to do with them).
For example, he'd long cultivated a tendency to pause with a kind of strained look, as if groping for words, gathering strength, before coming out with some mellifluous pronouncement; observing this, one counselor noted that he seemed "on the verge of belching" and was "very impressed with self".
NASA's next scientific satellite, which goes by the acronym IRIS, aims to check out this "enigmatic" region (NASA's word), gathering information that could help scientists make more accurate predictions about solar wind and the like.
His task was "research and dissemination," in other words, intelligence gathering and communicating the latest tactics to all the other groups.
Remember, a cryptic clue typically gives you two chances to get the answer: a definition found either at the beginning or the end, and some wordplay; sometimes the wordplay is made up entirely of this process of decapitating words and gathering together the heads.
We keep using the word gathering, because "party" sounds like more than 20 people, and the youngest one has been strictly limited to 20.
While it was easy to point at objects such as plants, animals or rocks, and ask for the word, gathering translations for more abstract concepts and emotions was trickier.
At least once a month, the nearly 400-person capacity space hosts events like the Triple D Havdallah Jam, a musical and spoken-word gathering to mark the end of the Jewish sabbath.
Though Bond disagrees, Mallory assures him that, in fact, human intelligence gathering (in other words, actual spies) is a thing of the past.
How do lexicographers decide what goes into the dictionary?In short, dictionary-makers act more like a fisherman, gathering words with a wide net, than a policeman, keeping out "bad words", as Erin McKean, a lexicographer, formerly of Oxford and now of Wordnik, an online dictionary, put it.
But, more than anything, it was a mechanism for gathering words for his taboo lexicon.
