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coletar — 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.
  • glean verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.

Senses

coletar is used for these senses in English:

  • collect (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
  • 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.
  • pick up (transitive, ) To collect an object, especially in passing.

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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