collect
noun
- short general prayer
adverb
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L333815 on Wikidata ↗adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L335430 on Wikidata ↗verb
- gather together objects of a similar type
- acquire
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”).
- 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”).
- 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.
- 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”).
- 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; 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.”
- 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.”
- To pick up or fetch
“Can you collect me from the airport?”
- 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”
- 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 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.”