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collecting

English

Etymology

collect +? -ing

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??l?kt??/
  • 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.

Translations

Verb

collecting

  1. present participle of collect

collecting From the web:

  • what collecting means
  • what collecting taxes
  • what's collecting revenue
  • what collecting system
  • what collecting bank
  • what collecting fossils
  • what's collecting social security
  • what collecting banker

getting

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???t??/
    • (US) IPA(key): [??????]
    • (US)
    • (Cockney, younger speakers in the UK) IPA(key): [??e???]

Verb

getting

  1. present participle of get

Noun

getting (plural gettings)

  1. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
    • With all thy getting, get understanding.
  2. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
    • 1882, Charlotte Riddell, "Old Mrs Jones", in Weird Stories, page 135
      She was always considering how to increase her "gettings," but she never gave a thought as to how she might save them.

Translations

getting From the web:

  • what getting covid feels like
  • what getting a covid test is like
  • what getting shot in a dream means
  • what getting drunk feels like
  • what getting a tattoo feels like
  • what getting cheated on does to you
  • what getting an iud feels like
  • what getting shot in the head feels like
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