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Noun collecting has 1 sense
- collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation - the act of gathering something together
--1 is a kind of grouping
--1 has particulars:
Verb collect has 5 senses
- roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard - 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"
--1 is one way to store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
Sample sentence:
The crowds collect in the streets
- collect, take in - call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
--2 is one way to take
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- gather, garner, collect, pull together - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"
--4 is one way to roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- collect, pick up, gather up, call for - 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"
--5 is one way to get, acquire
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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