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collecting

/kəˈlɛktɪŋ/noun3 syllables

Collecting means: the act of gathering something together.

Synonyms for collecting3

noun, as in the act of gathering something together

collection, assembling, aggregation

What does collecting mean?1

noun

1

the act of gathering something together

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with collecting?21

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Collecting in a sentence

  • William's hobby of collecting antique cars is quite expensive, but he loves it.Amastan
  • Lorenzo's encyclopedias are sitting in his closet, collecting dust.Amastan
  • Picture a day at the beach, collecting treasures and building castles.Nuel
  • Road construction, other infrastructure development, and illegal collecting can impact fossil-bearing units.Hybrid
  • Right now, we're just concentrating on collecting data.CK
  • She has many hobbies, cooking, knitting, gardening, collecting stamps, and so on.mamat
  • One of my hobbies is collecting old stamps.papabear
  • We are collecting sentences and their translations into other languages.CK

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Forms of collecting

as a noun

plural
collectings