recoger — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bank noun A financial institution that holds deposits, lends money, and manages other financial services.
- brush noun A tool with bristles attached to a handle, used for cleaning, painting, or grooming hair.
- collect verb To gather things together, often systematically.
- fetch verb To go and get something, then bring it back.
- 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.
- pick verb To choose one thing from a number of options.
- reap verb To cut and gather a crop, especially grain.
Senses
recoger is used for these senses in English:
- bank (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- brush (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
- collect (transitive) To gather together; amass.
- furl (transitive) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
- 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 To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- pick up (transitive, ) To collect an object, especially in passing.
bank — full definition
- noun A financial institution that holds deposits, lends money, and manages other financial services.
- noun The raised ground along the edge of a river, lake, or other body of water.
- verb To keep or deposit money at a financial institution.
- verb Of an aircraft or vehicle, to tilt to one side while turning.
brush — full definition
- noun A tool with bristles attached to a handle, used for cleaning, painting, or grooming hair.
- noun A brief, unpleasant encounter with something.
- noun Wild, low-growing vegetation such as shrubs and bushes.
- verb To clean, arrange, or apply something using a brush.
- verb To touch something lightly while passing by.