collecting

Definitions

1. A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
   countable, uncountable
2. A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector
3. With payment to be made by the receiver: called collect; a collect phone call.
4. present participle and gerund of collect
5. A brief formal prayer that is used in various Western liturgies before the epistle and that varies with the day.
6. To bring together in a group or mass; gather: The teacher collected the exams.
7. To call for and obtain payment of: collect taxes.
8. To be the site for (an accumulating mass), especially as a consequence of disuse or neglect: My guitar is collecting dust in the corner.
9. To recover control of: collect one's emotions.
10. To call for (someone); pick up: collected the children and drove home.
11. To come together in a group or mass; gather: Sand collected in the crevices.
12. To take in payments or donations: collecting for charity.
13. the action of accumulating (stamps, books, etc) as a hobby or for study

Equivalents

Examples

“The task of data gathering is not a random walk⟳, a sensual search⟳, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.”

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