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recolher — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • collect verb To gather things together, often systematically.
  • glean verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.

Senses

recolher is used for these senses in English:

  • collect (transitive) To gather together; amass.
  • collect (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
  • 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.
  • take away To remove something and put it in a different place.

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.

glean — full definition

  1. verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.
  2. verb To collect leftover crops from a field after the main harvest.

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