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collecting

Syllables: col·lect·ing/kəˈlɛktɪŋ/

collecting noun: a hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector. Also the present participle and gerund of collect.

Noun

collecting (countable and uncountable, plural collectings)

  1. A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
    • The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.2009, Melissa A Hardy, Alan Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis, page 568

Also used as

collecting is also the present participle and gerund of collect.

collecting meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Nepali

collecting in Malayalam

ശേഖരിക്കൽ

collecting in Kannada

ಸಂಗ್ರಹಿಸುವುದು

collecting in Nepali

सङ्कलन गर्दै

Forms of collecting

pluralcollectings

Origin of collecting

From collect + -ing.

Words formed from collecting

Phrases with collecting

Questions about collecting

What does collecting mean?
Collecting means a hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
What is collecting in Malayalam?
Collecting in Malayalam is ശേഖരിക്കൽ. See Collecting meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is collecting?
Collecting is a noun.
How do you pronounce collecting?
Collecting is pronounced /kəˈlɛktɪŋ/.
What is the plural of collecting?
The plural of collecting is collectings.

Words near collecting in the dictionary

  1. collecteth
  2. collectibility
  3. collectible
  4. collectibles
  5. collectin
  6. collecting
  7. collecting duct
  8. collecting ducts
  9. collecting one's thoughts
  10. collecting oneself
  11. collecting skin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collecting (page history and authors); collecting (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collecting (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collecting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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