Sekirov Dictionary

collect

/kəˈlɛkt/

verb 9
adjective 1
adverb 1
/ˈkɑlɪkt/ noun 1
forms 6
phrases 3

verb9

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to gather things into one place or group, often little by little
- Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
- The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
•
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 come together in a group or mass.
- The rain collected in puddles.
•
To pick up or fetch
- Can you collect me from the airport?
•
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 collect payments.
- He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
•
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 infer; to conclude.
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. — 1692
•
(no longer used) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
- […] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. — 1690

adjective1

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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.

adverb1

•
With payment due from the recipient.
- I had to call collect.

collect

UK /ˈkɒlɪkt/US /ˈkɑlɪkt/

noun1

•
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.

forms

collected · collectedst · collecting · collecteth · collects · collectest

Phrases with collect

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