Definition of collect Collect
/kʌlɛˈkt/ - [kulekt] - col•lect
We found 29 definitions of collect from 6 different sources.
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NounPlural: collects |
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| collect - a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | ||
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| collect - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" | ||
| pull in | ||
| accumulate, amass, hoard, compile, pile up, collect, roll up collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" | ||
| archive, file away put into an archive | ||
| drum up, beat up, rally gather; "drum up support" | ||
| collect - call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" | ||
| take in | ||
| take ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" | ||
| farm collect fees or profits | ||
| raise raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread" | ||
| collect - gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week" | ||
| pick up, gather up, call for | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| collect - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" | ||
| gather, garner, pull together | ||
| distribute, spread give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams" | ||
| gather up, lift up, pick up lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile" | ||
| marshal, mobilise, mobilize, summon arrange in logical order; "marshal facts or arguments" | ||
| rake gather with a rake; "rake leaves" | ||
| glean, harvest, reap remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals" | ||
| club gather into a club-like mass; "club hair" | ||
| hive gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm" | ||
| salvage, scavenge collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" | ||
| muster up, muster, summon, rally, come up call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | ||
| round up seek out and bring together; "round up some loyal followers" | ||
| cull, pluck, pick remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" | ||
| nut gather nuts | ||
| snail gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer" | ||
| bird-nest, birdnest gather birdnests; "They went birdnesting in the early morning" | ||
| nest gather nests | ||
| oyster gather oysters, dig oysters | ||
| sponge gather sponges, in the ocean | ||
| pearl gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean | ||
| clam gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean | ||
| shock subject to electrical shocks | ||
| heap up, stack up, pile up arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room" | ||
| collect - get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" | ||
| roll up, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard | ||
| hive away, lay in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, put in keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" | ||
| run up pile up (debts or scores) | ||
| corral collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election" | ||
| pull in, collect of trains; move into (a station); "The bullet train drew into Tokyo Station" | ||
| scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair" | ||
| chunk, lump put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" | ||
| bale make into a bale; "bale hay" | ||
| catch contract; "did you catch a cold?" | ||
| fund furnish money for; "The government funds basic research in many areas" | ||
| fund furnish money for; "The government funds basic research in many areas" | ||
Adjectivecollect, collecter, collectest |
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| collect - payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" | ||
| cod | ||
Adverb |
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| collect - make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- collect (Noun)
The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson , especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer . - collect (Verb)
To gather together; amass. - collect (Verb)
To get; particularly, get from someone. - collect (Verb)
To accumulate a number of similar or related objects, particularly for a hobby or recreation. - collect (Verb)
To collect payments. - collect (Verb)
To come together in a group or mass. - collect (Verb)
To collect objects as a hobby. - collect (Adverb)
With payment due from the recipient. - collect (Adjective)
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- collect (v. t.)
To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. - collect (v. t.)
To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes. - collect (v. t.)
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. - collect (v. i.)
To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks. - collect (v. i.)
To infer; to conclude. - collect (v. t.)
A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To gather together; to encourage growth by collecting funds. -
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To get or gather together. -
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To heap up; to collect or gather (e.g. work, magazines, etc.). -
collect
To receive an amount due.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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kol-ekt′, v.t. to assemble or bring together: to infer: to put one's thoughts in order.—v.i. to run together: to accumulate.—ns. Col′lect, a short form of prayer, peculiar to the liturgies of the Western Church, consisting of a single sentence, conveying one main petition; Collectā′nea, a selection of passages from various authors: a miscellany.—adj. Collect′ed, gathered together: having one's senses gathered together: cool: firm—adv. Collect′edly.—ns. Collect′edness, self-possession: coolness; Collec′tion, act of collecting: collecting of money at a religious or public meeting: the money collected: a number of anything: an assemblage: a book of selections: composure: an examination at the end of the terms in certain colleges.—adj. Collect′ive, considered as forming one mass or sum: congregated: common: (Milt.) inferential: (gram.) expressing a number or multitude.—adv. Collect′ively.—ns. Collect′ivism, the economic theory of socialism, that industry should be carried on with a collective capital; Collect′ivist, a socialist—also adj.; Collect′or, one who collects, as tickets, money, &c.; Collect′orate, Collect′orship. [L. colligĕre, collectum, from col, together, and legĕre, to gather.]
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