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collect

noun

  1. short general prayer
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adverb

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adjective

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verb

  1. gather together objects of a similar type
  2. acquire
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kəˈlɛkt/ / /ˈkɑlɪkt/ / /ˈkɑlɛkt/ / /ˈkɒlɪkt/

adj

Etymology: 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”).

  1. 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.”

adv

Etymology: 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”).

  1. With payment due from the recipient.

    “I had to call collect.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English collecte, from Ecclesiastical Latin collēcta (“assembly; collect”), originally designating the gathering at the beginning of a liturgical celebration.

  1. 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.”

verb

Etymology: 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”).

  1. 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.”

  2. 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.”

    “The EPA collects emissions data from more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the country and has even developed its own state-of-the-art tool — the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model — to estimate the impact of toxic emissions on human health.”

  3. 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.”

  4. To pick up or fetch

    “Can you collect me from the airport?”

  5. 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”

  6. To collect payments.

    “He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.”

  7. To come together in a group or mass.

    “The rain collected in puddles.”

  8. To infer; to conclude.

    “Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.”

  9. 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.”