Collect
[kə'lekt] or [kə'lɛkt]
Definition
(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'.
Edited by Benson--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Gather, assemble, muster, bring together, scrape together.[2]. Accumulate, amass, aggregate, garner, heap up, garner up.[3]. Infer, deduce, consider probable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Collate, gather, glean, sum, infer, learn, congregate, assemble, convoke,convene, muster, amass, garner, accumulate
ANT:Classify, arrange, distribute, dispose, dispense, divide, sort, deal
Edited by Ian
Definition
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.
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Examples
- The young girls of Nazareth still collect about it by the dozen and keep up a riotous laughter and sky-larking. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Dairymen collect milk over a radius of thirty or forty miles and get it to market fresh. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That produce, after the rise in its real price, requires no more labour to collect it than before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And here, Noah nodded his head expressively; and curled up as much of his small red nose as muscular action could collect together, for the occasion. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Gradually the blade of the scythe was made lighter, the handle was lengthened, and fingers added to collect the grain and carry it to the end of the stroke. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I tried to collect my thoughts, but I was stunned. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Only by sitting in a hot bath could he collect his mind to write. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In consequence of this law, when Memphis was occupied the provost-marshal had forcibly collected all the evidences he could obtain of such debts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I collected, too, quite a large scrap-book of it, but unfortunately have lost it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These Italians were also very mannered and matched manners with the two we had collected before. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I was very much pleased with what I collected to have been your behaviour on the occasion; it shewed a discretion highly to be commended. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- How cool and collected you look when everybody else is frightened! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The rest of the party were now returning, and all were soon collected. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Then, collecting himself, he added in his usual tone, And what may it be your pleasure to want at so early an hour with the poor Jew? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But if carbon and zinc are used, a current is again produced, the zinc dissolving away as before, and bubbles collecting on the carbon plate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The fancy runs from one end of the universe to the other in collecting those ideas, which belong to any subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Opening the grenades under water and collecting the gas that escaped it was found that the average amount of carbon dioxide contained was about one cubic inch per grenade. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Sir, said Mr. Helstone, collecting all his dignity--sir, the great knowledge of man is to know himself, and the bourne whither his own steps tend. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thus we say that a man's interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or archaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I had expected some extravagant proposition, and remained silent awhile, collecting my thoughts that I might the better combat her fanciful scheme. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This causes a sound of very great power, which the trumpet collects and compresses, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound beam in the direction required. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These instances are in themselves totally distinct from each other, and have no union but in the mind, which observes them, and collects their ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He must then pay for the licence to gather them, and must give up to the landlord a portion of what his labour either collects or produces. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The slaked lime, formed while the gas was generated, collects at the bottom of the tanks and is removed from time to time. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Then he collects his rent and leaves again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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