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sbírat — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • collect verb To gather things together, often systematically.
  • cull verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
  • gather verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  • glean verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.

Senses

sbírat is used for these senses in English:

  • collect (transitive) To gather together; amass.
  • collect (transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
  • cull To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  • gather (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
  • glean To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.

collect — full definition

  1. verb To gather things together, often systematically.
  2. verb To go and get someone or something; to pick up.
  3. verb To receive payment that is owed.

cull — full definition

  1. verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
  2. verb To reduce the number of animals in a population by killing some of them in a controlled way.
  3. noun The organized killing of selected animals to control numbers.

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