Picking vs Collect - What's the difference?
picking | collect |
A gathering to pick fruit.
(usually, pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
* 1899 , , Via Crucis , ch. 9:
(usually, pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
* 1919 , , The Secret of the Tower , ch. 11:
To gather together; amass.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To get; particularly, get from someone.
To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare (gather), (get).)
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 292-3:
* John Locke
To collect payments.
To come together in a group or mass.
To collect objects as a hobby.
To infer; to conclude.
* South
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
With payment due from the recipient.
(en noun) (sometimes capitalized)
(Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
As verbs the difference between picking and collect
is that picking is present participle of lang=en while collect is to gather together; amass.As nouns the difference between picking and collect
is that picking is a gathering to pick fruit while collect is the prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.As an adjective collect is
to be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.As an adverb collect is
with payment due from the recipient.picking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- We went to a strawberry picking last June.
- Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.
- He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.
Synonyms
* (items remaining after others have selected the best) leftoversDerived terms
* easy pickings * in the picking * nit-picking * slim pickingscollect
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) collecten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
- the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
- which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected .
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
Adjective
(-)- It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
Adverb
(-)- I had to call collect .
Derived terms
* call collect * collect one's thoughts * collect one's wits * collect up * collectible * collection * collector * recollect, recollectionEtymology 2
(Wikipedia) From (etyl) .Noun
- He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.