Collects
[kə'lekts]
Examples
- 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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