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Collect meaning in English

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Collect

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Noun

1. collect

a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

Verb

2. accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up

get or gather together

Example Sentences:
'I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife'
'She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis'
'She rolled up a small fortune'

3. collect, take in

call for and obtain payment of

Example Sentences:
'we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts'
'he collected the rent'

4. collect, garner, gather, pull together

assemble or get together

Example Sentences:
'gather some stones'
'pull your thoughts together'

5. collect, pull in

get or bring together

Example Sentences:
'accumulate evidence'

6. call for, collect, gather up, pick up

gather or collect

Example Sentences:
'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'

Adjective

7. cod, collect

payable by the recipient on delivery

Example Sentences:
'a collect call'
'the letter came collect'
'a COD parcel'

Adverb

8. collect

make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays

Example Sentences:
'call collect'
'send a package collect'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Collect

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verb
1. 
to gather together or be gathered together
2. 
to accumulate (stamps, books, etc) as a hobby or for study
3. (transitive)
to call for or receive payment of (taxes, dues, etc)
4. (transitive)
to regain control of (oneself, one's emotions, etc) as after a shock or surprise
he collected his wits
5. (transitive)
to fetch; pick up
collect your own post
he collected the children after school
6. (intransitive; sometimes foll by on) slang
to receive large sums of money, as from an investment
he really collected when the will was read
7. (transitive) Australian and New Zealand informal
to collide with; be hit by
8.  collect on delivery
adverb, adjective
9. US
(of telephone calls) on a reverse-charge basis
noun
10. Australian informal
a winning bet
noun
Christianity
a short Church prayer generally preceding the lesson or epistle in Communion and other services

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Collect

see synonyms of collect
verb transitive
1. 
to gather together; assemble
2. 
to gather (stamps, books, etc.) as a hobby
3. 
to call for and receive (money) for (rent, a fund, taxes, bills, etc.)
4. 
to regain control of (oneself or one's wits); summon up (one's faculties or powers)
5.  US Chiefly British
to pick up; fetch
verb intransitive
6. 
to gather; assemble
a crowd collected
7. 
to accumulate
water collects in the basement
8. 
to collect payments, contributions, etc.
adjective, adverb
9.  US
with payment to be made by the receiver
to telephone collect
noun
[also C-]
a short prayer suitable to the time or occasion, used in certain church services, as before the Epistle at Mass

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Collect

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v. col·lect·ed, col·lect·ing, col·lects
v.tr.
1.
a. To bring together in a group or mass; gather: The teacher collected the exams.
b. To accumulate as a hobby or for study: collect old coins; collect folk tales. See Synonyms at gather.
2. To call for and obtain payment of: collect taxes.
3. To be the site for (an accumulating mass), especially as a consequence of disuse or neglect: My guitar is collecting dust in the corner.
4. To recover control of: collect one's emotions.
5. To call for (someone); pick up: collected the children and drove home.
v.intr.
1. To come together in a group or mass; gather: Sand collected in the crevices.
2. To take in payments or donations: collecting for charity.
adv. & adj.
With payment to be made by the receiver: called collect; a collect phone call.
n.
Ecclesiastical
A brief formal prayer that is used in various Western liturgies before the epistle and that varies with the day.

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