Collect

[kə'lekt] or [kə'lɛkt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England.

(verb.) get or bring together; 'accumulate evidence'.

(verb.) call for and obtain payment of; 'we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts'; 'he collected the rent'.

(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'.

(adj.) payable by the recipient on delivery; 'a collect call'; 'the letter came collect'; 'a COD parcel' .

(adv.) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; 'call collect'; 'send a package collect'.

班森編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

(v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

(v. t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.

(v. i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

(v. i.) To infer; to conclude.

(v. t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

伯特校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Gather, assemble, muster, bring together, scrape together.[2]. Accumulate, amass, aggregate, garner, heap up, garner up.[3]. Infer, deduce, consider probable.

尤因整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Collate, gather, glean, sum, infer, learn, congregate, assemble, convoke,convene, muster, amass, garner, accumulate

ANT:Classify, arrange, distribute, dispose, dispense, divide, sort, deal

伊恩校對

解釋/意思:

v.t. to assemble or bring together: to infer: to put one's thoughts in order.—v.i. to run together: to accumulate.—ns. Col′lect a short form of prayer peculiar to the liturgies of the Western Church consisting of a single sentence conveying one main petition; Collectā′nea a selection of passages from various authors: a miscellany.—adj. Collect′ed gathered together: having one's senses gathered together: cool: firm—adv. Collect′edly.—ns. Collect′edness self-possession: coolness; Collec′tion act of collecting: collecting of money at a religious or public meeting: the money collected: a number of anything: an assemblage: a book of selections: composure: an examination at the end of the terms in certain colleges.—adj. Collect′ive considered as forming one mass or sum: congregated: common: (Milt.) inferential: (gram.) expressing a number or multitude.—adv. Collect′ively.—ns. Collect′ivism the economic theory of socialism that industry should be carried on with a collective capital; Collect′ivist a socialist—also adj.; Collect′or one who collects as tickets money &c.; Collect′orate Collect′orship.

杰奎琳編輯