"collecting" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kəˈlɛktɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-collecting.ogg [US] Forms: collectings [plural]
Etymology: collect + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|collect|ing}} collect + -ing Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Hobbies Derived forms: grievance collecting, injustice collecting, stamp collecting Translations (hobby): colecionismo [masculine] (Aragonese), col·leccionisme [masculine] (Catalan), sběratelství [neuter] (Czech), kolektado (Esperanto), collection [feminine] (French), Sammeln [neuter] (German), collezionismo [masculine] (Italian), kolekcjonerstwo [neuter] (Polish), zbieractwo [neuter] (Polish), colecionismo [masculine] (Portuguese), коллекционирование (kollekcionirovanije) [neuter] (Russian), coleccionismo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-collecting-en-noun-gH3RqSSi Disambiguation of Hobbies: 58 42

Verb

IPA: /kəˈlɛktɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-collecting.ogg [US]
Etymology: collect + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|collect|ing}} collect + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} collecting
  1. present participle and gerund of collect Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: collect
    Sense id: en-collecting-en-verb-tEmbRrQN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 71 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 28 72

Inflected forms

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