collecting
- noun
- /kəˈlɛktɪŋ/
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coleccionismo
- His hobby of collecting stamps started when he was a child.
I think the terminus of collecting is hoarding.
- I think the terminus of collecting is hoarding.
- It just seems scary, the step of collecting the data and.
- Debt collecting, Debt collecting, helping people out in situations.
- So in other words, not only are we bad at collecting taxes, we're not even trying.
Examples
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Milking the cows, sweeping the house, cooking for my siblings, collecting water, firewood.
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And Bill has a bit of a problem with collecting dead CPUs.
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I do like like collecting art and like sports cards.
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And so I started just like collecting all these stories.
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If I was collecting anything, what would it be?
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And I have been collecting these bags.
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So we, we've been trying to go about collecting what we think is interesting.
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This largely came down to collecting spoils whilst on campaign.
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My father enjoys collecting coins from different countries.
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She spends her weekends collecting vintage comic books.
Synonyms
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1.9
The act of gathering things for a particular purpose
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1.4
An act of collecting people or things into one place
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3.4
A group of things gathered in one place over time
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6.1
A group of things joined together as one whole
Collecting things into one place, for example crops after harvest
Antonyms
Compounds
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Surface Forms
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Etymology
The word collecting comes from Latin parts com- 'together' and legere 'to gather', and you can see the same root in words like select and elect. So collecting means 'gathering things together', often as a hobby.