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COLLECT
collect, cod
(adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery; “a collect call”; “the letter came collect”; “a COD parcel”
collect
(adverb) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; “call collect”; “send a package collect”
collect
(noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
gather, garner, collect, pull together
(verb) assemble or get together; “gather some stones”; “pull your thoughts together”
collect, pull in
(verb) get or bring together; “accumulate evidence”
collect, take in
(verb) call for and obtain payment of; “we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts”; “he collected the rent”
collect, pick up, gather up, call for
(verb) gather or collect; “You can get the results on Monday”; “She picked up the children at the day care center”; “They pick up our trash twice a week”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
collect (third-person singular simple present collects, present participle collecting, simple past and past participle collected)
(transitive) To gather together; amass.
(transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
(transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
(transitive, now, rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
(intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
(intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
(transitive) To infer; to conclude.
(transitive, of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
Synonyms
• (to gather together): aggregate, gather up; see also round up
• (to get from someone): receive, secure; see also receive
• (to accumulate items for a hobby): amound, gather; see also accumulate
• (to infer, conclude, form a conclusion): assume, construe
• (to collect payments)
• (to come together in a group or mass): group, mass, merge; see also assemble or coalesce
• (to collide with): bump into, plough into, run into
Hyponyms
• garbage collect
Adjective
collect (not comparable)
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
Adverb
collect (not comparable)
With payment due from the recipient.
Etymology 2
Noun
collect (plural collects) (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.
Source: Wiktionary
Col*lect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collected; p. pr. & vb. n. Collecting.] Etym: [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and cf. Coil, v. t., Cull, v. t.]
1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.
2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] Shak. Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. Locke. To collect one's self, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.
Syn.
– To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.
Col*lect", v. i.
1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.
Col"lect, n. Etym: [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See Collect, v. t.]
Definition: A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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