Capture
Gather
Gather verb - To catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use.
Usage example: late summer is when we gather the tomatoes and begin canning them for the winter
Capture and gather are semantically related in acquire topic. Sometimes you can use "Capture" instead a verb "Gather", if it concerns topics such as come or bring together.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In the first novel, the crew of the Walker wants to capture a Grik ship to gather intel.
Source: Stranded With Edison - This was the beginning of the more reviled Batman storyline War Games, as a plan of Batman's is initiated by an angry and desperate Stephanie Brown to gather all of the crime families together and pretty much capture them.
Source: Evil Power Vacuum - In Pokemon XYZ, prior to the Kalos League, Alain helped Team Flare to gather Mega Evolution energy and capture one of the Zygarde cores, believing they intended to harness all that power for peaceful purposes, unaware of their true intentions.
Source: Dramatic Irony
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