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Harvesting vs Collecting - What's the difference?

harvesting | collecting |

As verbs the difference between harvesting and collecting

is that harvesting is while collecting is .

As nouns the difference between harvesting and collecting

is that harvesting is (agriculture) the gathering of a mature crop, a harvest while collecting is a hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

harvesting

English

(wikipedia harvesting)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop, a harvest.

    • collecting

    English

    (wikipedia collecting)

    Noun

  • A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
  • * 2009 , Melissa A Hardy, ?Alan Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis (page 568)
    • The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.

    Verb

    (head)