COLLECTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collecting mean? 

• COLLECTING (noun)
  The noun COLLECTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of gathering something together

  Familiarity information: COLLECTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of gathering something together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection

Hypernyms ("collecting" is a kind of...):

grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collecting"):

agglomeration (the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating)

collation (assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence)

compilation; compiling (the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list))

gather; gathering (the act of gathering something)

bottle collection (the activity of collecting bottles)

conchology; shell collecting (the collection and study of mollusc shells)

coin collecting; coin collection; numismatics; numismatology (the collection and study of money (and coins in particular))

pickup (the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places)

philately; stamp collecting; stamp collection (the collection and study of postage stamps)

tax collection (the collection of taxes)

Derivation:

collect (assemble or get together)

collect (get or bring together)

collect (get or gather together)

 Context examples 

Focal dysmorphogenesis of ducts leading to a proliferation of atypical cells in the terminal ducts and/or the collecting ducts

(Ductal Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Despite the staggering distances to other planetary systems, in recent years researchers have begun to develop techniques for collecting spectra of exoplanets.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

Though the mission stopped collecting data in 2013, scientists are still analyzing its huge data sets for more clues to the history of our universe.

(Planck Takes Magnetic Fingerprint of Our Galaxy, JPL/NASA)

A cell located in the collecting tube of the nephron..

(Light Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

All of Juno's science instruments and the spacecraft's JunoCam were operating during the flyby, collecting data that are now being returned to Earth.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

The researchers analyzed a database of 515 mammal communities across the globe, collecting data on traits such as body size and diet and evolutionary relationships.

(Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future, National Science Foundation)

That’s when Vaz got the idea to look for ripples within the reams of data Dr. Zaghloul’s team had been collecting from patients.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

Also known as collecting duct carcinoma, this is a rare type of renal carcinoma.

(Carcinoma of the Collecting Ducts of Bellini, NCI Thesaurus)

Today the most common way of collecting the stem cells is by filtering them directly from the blood.

(Bone Marrow Donation, NCI Thesaurus)

The practice of collecting and publishing information regarding current events.

(Journalism, NCI Thesaurus)