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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.