collecting

English

Etymology

From collect + -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlɛktɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: col‧lect‧ing

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.
   • 2009, Melissa A Hardy, Alan Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis, page 568:

     The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.

Derived terms

• ballot collecting
• grievance collecting
• injustice collecting
• stamp collecting
• wound collecting

Translations

hobby

• Aragonese: colecionismo m
• Catalan: col·leccionisme m
• Czech: sběratelství n
• Esperanto: kolektado
• French: collection (fr) f
• German: Sammeln (de) n
• Italian: collezionismo (it) m
• Polish: kolekcjonerstwo n, zbieractwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: colecionismo m
• Russian: коллекционирование (ru) n (kollekcionirovanije)
• Spanish: coleccionismo (es) m

Verb

collecting

1. present participle and gerund of collect