collect
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kəˈlɛkt/
collect (collects, present participle collecting; past and past participle collected)
- (transitive) To gather together; amass.
- Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
- The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
- (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
- A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
- (transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
- John Henry collects stamps.
- I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
- My friend from school has started to collects mangas and novels recently
- (transitive, now, rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XVII ↗, section 20
- […] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, page 292-3:
- the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XVII ↗, section 20
- (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
- He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
- (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
- The rain collected in puddles.
- (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
- (transitive, of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
- The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
- (to gather together) aggregate, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
- (to get from someone) receive, secure; see also Thesaurus:receive
- (to accumulate items for a hobby) amound, gather; see also Thesaurus: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 Thesaurus:assemble or Thesaurus:coalesce
- (to collide with) bump into, plough into, run into
- French: rassembler, recueillir
- German: sammeln, versammeln
- Italian: raccogliere, bottinare
- Portuguese: juntar, reunir, recolher
- Russian: собира́ть
- Spanish: juntar, recoger, reunir
- French: percevoir, récupérer, recueillir
- Italian: raccogliere
- Portuguese: recolher
- Russian: взима́ть
- Spanish: cobrar, recaudar, recolectar
- French: collectionner
- German: sammeln, anhäufen
- Italian: raccogliere
- Portuguese: colecionar
- Russian: коллекциони́ровать
- Spanish: coleccionar
- Spanish: colegir
collect (not comparable)
- To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
- It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
- Portuguese: a cobrar
collect (not comparable)
- With payment due from the recipient.
- I had to call collect.
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.
- He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
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