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verzamelen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • collect verb To gather things together, often systematically.
  • collection noun A group of things gathered together, often assembled with care or over time.
  • confer verb To talk something over with others; to discuss and seek advice.
  • 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.
  • hoard noun A hidden store of valuable things, often kept secretly.
  • rally noun A large public gathering held to show support for a cause, person, or team.

Senses

verzamelen is used for these senses in English:

  • collect (transitive) To gather together; amass.
  • collection The activity of collecting.
  • confer (obsolete, transitive) To bring together; to collect, gather. [16th–17th c.]
  • 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.
  • hoard (transitive) To amass, usually for one's own private collection.
  • rally (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  • rally (intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.

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.

collection — full definition

  1. noun A group of things gathered together, often assembled with care or over time.
  2. noun The act of gathering something, such as money or data.
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