collectingn :
the act of
gathering something together [syn: collection, assembling] (
p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Collect Â
Noun1.
the act of
gathering something together (synonym) collection, assembling,
aggregation (hypernym)
grouping (hyponym)
agglomeration (derivation)
roll up, collect, accumulate,
pile up, amass, compile, hoard
Noun1. a
short prayer generally preceding the lesson in
the church of
rome or
the church of
england (hypernym) prayer, petition, orison
Verb1.
get or
gather together; "I am
accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to
his wife"; "She is
amassing a
lot of
data for her thesis"; "She
rolled up a
small fortune" (synonym)
roll up, accumulate,
pile up, amass, compile,
hoard (hypernym) store,
hive away,
lay in,
put in,
salt away,
stack away,
stash away (hyponym)
run up (derivation) collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation2.
call for and obtain payment of; "we
collected over a
million dollars in
outstanding debts"; "he
collected the rent" (synonym)
take in (hypernym)
take (hyponym)
farm (derivation) collector, gatherer, accumulator3.
assemble or
get together; "gather
some stones"; "pull
your thoughts together" (synonym) gather, garner,
pull together (hyponym) mobilize, mobilise, marshal,
summon (derivation) collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation4.
get or
bring together; "accumulate evidence" (synonym)
pull in (hypernym)
roll up, accumulate,
pile up, amass, compile,
hoard (hyponym) archive,
file away (derivation) collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation5.
gather or collect; "You
can get the results on Monday"; "She
picked up
the children at
the day care center"; "They
pick up
our trash twice a week" (synonym)
pick up,
gather up,
call for (hypernym) get, acquire
Adjective1.
payment due by
the recipient on delivery; "a
collect call"; "the
letter came collect"; "a
cod parcel" (synonym)
cod (similar) due, owed
Adverb1.
make a
telephone call or
mail a
package so
that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a
package collect"
Crawnol = a. collecting
Heliad = n. a gathering, a collecting; a hunting, a
making of brine
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A
bank that acts as an
agent to
the seller's
bank (the
presenting bank).
the collecting bank assumes no
responsibility for either the documents or
the merchandise.
The hobby of
collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloguing, displaying, storing,
and maintaining whatever items are of
interest to
the individual collector.
some collectors are generalists, accumulating Star Trek merchandise, or
stamps from all countries of
the world.
others focus on a
subtopic within their area of interest,
perhaps 19th century postage stamps,
milk bottle labels from Sussex, or
mongolian harnesses and tack.
possession; seizing; collecting Â
