COLLECTING Synonyms

• increase in amount by collecting or gathering

• get or gather together

• the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

• lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

• major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters

• collecting the charges upon delivery

• payable by the recipient on delivery

• fool or hoax

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• get or gather together

• put together out of existing material

• use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed

• a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

• acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

• store grain

• assemble or get together

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

• the act of gathering something

• assemble or get together

• collect in one place

• increase in amount by collecting or gathering

• conclude from evidence

• draw together into folds or puckers

• get people together

• draw and bring closer

• look for (food) in nature

• increase or develop

• a secret store of valuables or money

• save up as for future use

• get or gather together

• express the need or desire for

• require as useful, just, or proper

• request the participation or presence of

• gather or collect

• take and lift upward

• gather or collect

• take and lift upward

• take up by hand

• give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift

• gather or collect

• get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

• get in addition, as an increase

• take into custody

• buy casually or spontaneously

• register (perceptual input)

• lift out or reflect from a background

• meet someone for sexual purposes

• fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

• improve significantly; go from bad to good

• perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily

• eat by pecking at, like a bird

• gain or regain energy

• increase in amount by collecting or gathering

• arrange into piles or stacks

• get or gather together

• assemble or get together

• form into a cylinder by rolling

• get or gather together

• arrive in a vehicle:

• make into a bundle

• close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle

• form a cylinder by rolling

• show certain properties when being rolled