collecting
Meaning
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A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
col‧lect‧ing
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kəˈlɛktɪŋ/
Etymology
From collect + -ing.
New
collect
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- To gather together; amass.
- To get; particularly, get from someone.
- To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
- To pick up or fetch
- To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
- To collect payments.
- To come together in a group or mass.
- To infer; to conclude.
- To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
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