Word Finder - collecting

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To gather together; amass.

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Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.

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To get; particularly, get from someone.

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A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan.   A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.

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To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

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I don't think he collects as much as hoards.

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To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)

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(often with on or against) To collect payments.

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He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.

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To come together in a group or mass.

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The rain collected in puddles.

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To infer; to conclude.

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(of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

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The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.

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A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

At that point, everyone was collecting, or trying to.

She paused, collecting her thoughts.

Today I'm delivering information, not collecting.

The French had attacked the men collecting wood in the copse.

Rather than collecting millions of items and lugging them to fight a weak monster, you're only allowed four weapons.

He found the caterer's boxes and set out collecting all the dishes, glasses and silverware.

Oh, he was interested all right - interested in collecting the money offered to keep an eye on her.

Too nervous, Jessi instinctively knelt on the floor beside the overturned box and began collecting the small treasures.

We will be completely insulated from the collecting and researching of data so that we can focus entirely on turning data into knowledge.

To get the best high score, you needed to complete each level as fast as you could, while collecting as many rings as possible.

Before the death of Bruce an African Association was formed, in 1788, for collecting information respecting the interior of that continent, with Major Rennell and Sir Joseph Banks as leading members.

Nairne's machine could give either positive or negative electricity, the first named being collected from the prime conductor carrying the collecting points and the second from the prime conductor carrying the cushion.

The studs on the armature plate were charged inductively by being connected for a moment by a neutralizing wire as they passed in front of the field plates, and then gave up their charges partly to renew the field charges and partly to collecting combs connected to discharge balls.

By collecting rune stones and gems, you can add powerful bonuses to weapons and armor.

James Ross Reily (1788-1844) travelled in Holland and Germany, collecting money and books for the seminary.

During his long life enormous strides were made by others in collecting the materials of American history, and while in the main he kept pace with them by ruthless revision, yet even the latest edition of his work disregards some minor facts which others knew for the insertion of much which the author alone knew.

He had as a youth a taste for collecting objects of natural history and other curiosities.

His collecting propensities made him useful to John Ray and Robert Boyle.

His great stroke as a collector was to acquire (by bequest, conditional on paying off certain debts) in 1701 the cabinet of William Courten, who had made collecting the business of his life.

His small fees - he once charged $3.50 for collecting an account of nearly $600.00 - his frequent refusals to take cases which he did not think right and his attempts to prevent unnecessary litigation have become proverbial.

Direct taxation was opposed by the governments of the states, which did not desire to see the imperial authorities interfering in those sources of revenue over which they had hitherto had sole control; moreover, the whole organization for collecting direct taxes would have had to be created.

Several princes and other leading personages, foremost among whom was the emperor Maximilian I., had spent a good deal of time and money in collecting the manuscripts of the medieval chroniclers, and these now began to be printed.

The only inhabitants are a few wild tribes who live by hunting and collecting jungle produce.

He is industrious in collecting facts, careful and impartial in stating them; his judgment is sound, his reflections generally acute, his conceptions of the general march and movement of things not unworthy of the great events he has recorded.

It is even true that he may at some time or another have formed the intention of collecting these revelations.

The procedure in scientific excavation is directed to collecting and interpreting all the information that can he obtained from the excavation as to the history and nature of the site explored, be it town, temple, house, cemetery or individual grave, wasting no evidence that results from it touching the endless problems which scientific archaeology affordswhether in regard to arts and crafts, manners and customs, language, history or beliefs.

Then after collecting reinforcements they made a sudden dash across England and occupied the ruined Roman walls of Chester.

Unfortunately, he adopted the French ideas of excise, and the French methods of imposing and collecting taxes - a system known as the Regie.

At Reims she and her elder sister, Sophia, afterwards known as Sarah, joined a troupe of Italian children who made their living by singing in the cafes, Sarah singing and Elizabeth, then only four years of age, collecting the coppers.

His idea of studying man as one of the animals, and of collecting facts about savage tribes to throw light on the problems of civilization, bring him into contact with the one, and his intimate knowledge of Greek philosophy with the other.

A bed of Zostera near the level of low water is, however, on the British coast a favourite collecting ground for the smaller red and brown epiphytes.

But he had not the force to invade England, or to take the castle, and waited, collecting recruits and money, and encouraged by empty promises from France, till, as he wrote to James (26th of October), " I shall have one decisive stroke for 't, but unless the French land, perhaps none.

Bohmer's historical work was chiefly concerned with collecting and tabulating charters and other imperial documents of the middle ages.

To his legal scholarship and collecting zeal Virginia owed the preservation of a large part of her early statutes.

They returned in November 1852, and Lowell published some recollections of his journey in the magazines, collecting the sketches later in a prose volume, Fireside Travels.

About this time he began his great work, the first of the kind in France, and one for which he had been collecting materials for thirty years - the Histoire ecclesiastique.

At this height, with the thermometer marking 9 degrees below freezing, he remained for a considerable time, making observations not only on magnetism, but also on the temperature and humidity of the air, and collecting several samples of air at different heights.

Jackson was very successful in collecting old claims against various European nations for spoliations inflicted under Napoleon's continental system, especially the French spoliation claims, with reference to which he acted with aggressiveness and firmness.

The Austrian right was increasing the pressure against the positions west of the Vallarsa, and was collecting forces for the first of the long series of attacks against Pasubio, which was only lightly held.

Instead of producing and collecting goods for immediate consumption, local society came more and more into the habit of exchanging corn, cattle, cloth, for money, and of laying money by as a means of getting all sorts of exchangeable goods, when required.

The hard work of collecting, printing, annotating and translating Greek and Latin authors had been accomplished.

The wines are made entirely from white grapes, and the methods of collecting the latter, and of working them up Analyses of Chateau Lafite of Different Vintages.'

In March 1775 he was appointed a delegate from Virginia to the second Continental Congress, where he served on committees for fortifying New York, collecting ammunition, raising money and formulating army rules.

Hence he was furnished with a simple method of collecting electricity from other bodies, and he was enabled to perform those remarkable experiments which are chiefly connected with his name.

His methods were not free from arbitrariness; he would attribute to " the wise " the opinion of a single authority which he regarded as correct; he would ignore conflicting opinions or those of scholars which they themselves had afterwards retracted, and he did not scruple to cite his own decisions.2 The period of the Amora'im, " speakers, interpreters," (about 220-500 A.D.), witnessed the growth of the Gemara, when the now " canonical " Mishnah formed the basis for further amplification and for the collecting of old and new material which bore upon it.

He was frequently at court, and he found Tours an excellent place for collecting information.

Camden spent some time in travelling in various parts of England collecting materials for his Britannia, a work which was first published in 1586.

This would be merely carrying oyster culture a step farther back, and instead of collecting the newly fixed oysters, to obtain the free larvae in numbers and so insure a fall of spat independently of the uncertainty of natural conditions.

Lutf Ali Khan took refuge with the hospitable chief of Tabbas in the heart of Khorasan, where he succeeded in collecting a few followers; but advancing into Fars, he was again defeated, and forced to take refuge at Kandahar.

Collecting an army, Charles marched against the usurper, and on the 15th of June 923, in a stubborn and sanguinary battle near Soissons, Robert was killed, according to one tradition in single combat with his rival.