collect
verbEtymology
From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
- derived from *leǵ-✻
- derived from collecta
- derived from collectare
- derived from collecter
- inherited from collecten
Definitions
To gather together
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.
To get
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.
To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or…
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
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To pick up or fetch
- Can you collect me from the airport?
To form a conclusion
To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
- […] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
- From the latter passages we may collect, that the expression "he that cometh" was, with the Jews, a kind of title distinguishing the Messiah
- 'I collect,' said Miss Crawford, 'that Sotherton is an old place, and a place of some grandeur. In any particular style of building?'
To collect payments.
- He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
To come together in a group or mass.
- The rain collected in puddles.
To infer
To infer; to conclude.
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
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 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.
With payment due from the recipient.
- I had to call collect.
The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a…
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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A definitional loop anchored at collect. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at collect. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at collect
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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