Definitions for collecting
col·lect·ing

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1. collection, collecting, assembling, aggregationnoun

   the act of gathering something together

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1. collectingnoun

   A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

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1. collecting

   Collecting refers to the act of gathering or accumulating a particular set of items, information or data over a period of time. This can be driven by various motivations such as hobby, research, preservation, or investment. The items or data collected are often related or similar in nature, and can range from physical objects like stamps, coins, art pieces to abstract entities like knowledge, data, or experiences.

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1. Collecting

   of Collect

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1. Collecting

   The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector. Some collectors are generalists, accumulating 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. The items collectors collect may be antique, or simply collectible. Antiques are collectible items at least 100 years old; collectibles are less than antique, and may even be new. Collectors and dealers may use the word vintage to describe older collectibles. Most collectibles are man-made commercial items, but some private collectors collect natural objects such as birds' eggs, butterflies, rocks, and seashells. Items which were once everyday objects may now be collectible since almost all those once produced have been destroyed or discarded are called Ephemera. Some collectors collect only in childhood while others continue to do so throughout their lives and usually modify their aims later in life. Philately, phillumeny, and deltiology are examples of forms of collecting which can be undertaken at minimal expense.

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1. collectingverb

   Verb form of the word collect.

   The postal service are collecting post from each location daily.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 23, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'collecting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3501

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce collecting?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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How to say collecting in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of collecting in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of collecting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of collecting in a Sentence

1. Heritage Auctions:

   Coin collecting lore states the unique rarity was excavated from the site of the first Philadelphia Mint before 1876.

2. Aron Tzimas:

   I wanted this box to be like a gift, people are collecting them, stacking them in their houses.

3. Brahm Wachter:

   We saw tremendous bidding up until the moment the sale closed, with the value more than doubling in the final hour alone, that coupled with strong international bidding from six countries on four continents shows not only the incredible appeal of Michael Jordan... but also that sneaker collecting is truly a global and growing market.

4. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   To do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did, is a terror that will be remembered for centures to come, in places where there were especially fierce battles, the bodies of Russian soldiers simply pile up along our line of defense -- and no one is collecting these bodies.

5. Lauren Gardner:

   We were collecting data on a new virus that nobody understood at a time [ when ] there was not a single web page dedicated to Covid-19 case count.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=collecting
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Collecting
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collecting
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=collecting
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=collecting