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recueillir — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • collect verb To gather things together, often systematically.
  • gather verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  • harvest noun The gathering in of a ripe crop, or the crop itself once gathered.

Senses

recueillir is used for these senses in English:

  • collect (transitive) To gather together; amass.
  • collect (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
  • gather Especially, to harvest food.
  • 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.
  • harvest (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

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.

gather — full definition

  1. verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  2. verb To collect or accumulate something gradually.
  3. verb To conclude or infer something from information available.

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