collecting
/kəˈlɛktɪŋ/noun3 syllables
Collecting means: the act of gathering something together.
Synonyms for collecting3
noun, as in the act of gathering something together
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
three syllables
four syllables
unsuspecting
Show 40 near rhymes
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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