definitions

Definitions of collecting on the Web:

* collection: the act of gathering something together
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* 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. ...
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* collect - roll up: 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"
* collect - call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
* collect - gather: assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
* collect - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"
* 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"
* collect - make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
* collect - a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
* collect - payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
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* collected - brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt"
* collected - in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"
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* Collected (aka Seed 1) is a 2005 promotional DVD, freely distributed in limited supply by Nine Inch Nails. ...
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* Collected - Collection is when a horse carries more weight on his hindlegs than his front legs. The horse draws the body in upon itself so that it becomes like a giant spring whose stored energy can be reclaimed for fighting or running from a predator. ...
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* Collected is a five disc Black 'N Blue box set, released in 2005, with 4 audio CDs and one DVD.
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