collecting

Speech parts

1. collecting - Noun

2. collecting - Verb

Meaning

of Collect

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

assembling aggregation collection gathering accumulation harvesting compiling accumulating amassing obtaining procuring collating mass garner philatelic
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Antonyms

according playing giving setting serving offering
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Hypernyms

grouping

Hyponyms

stamp collecting gathering gather compilation collation agglomeration

Phrases with the word

collecting up collecting welfare payments collecting box solar collecting barrel for collecting rain container for collecting a liquid

Examples

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Ernest Rutherford

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. Tom Clancy

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses. Chuck Palahniuk

A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country. L. Ron Hubbard

They bow to you when borrowing, you bow to them when collecting. Russian Proverb

If the olive trees blossom in April, you'll have enough to collect them with barrels; if they bud in May, you'll have enough to fill a small measure; but if as late as June, you'll only be collecting handfuls. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

collectible items collectibles or art collectin collecting box collecting cup collecting duct