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Collect Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Collect? [n] a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England [adv] make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect" [adj] payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [v] assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [v] get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" [v] move together [v] call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" [v] get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for athe man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis" [v] gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Collect: accumulate \| amass \| call for \| cod \| compile \| congregate \| due \| garner \| gather \| gather \| gather up \| hoard \| owed \| pick up \| pile up \| pull in \| pull together \| take in Related Terms \| Find terms related to Collect: accouple \| accumulate \| agglomerate \| agglutinate \| aggregate \| aggroup \| aid prayer \| align \| amass \| Angelus \| appeal \| array \| articulate \| assemble \| associate \| Ave \| Ave Maria \| backlog \| band \| batch \| beadroll \| beads \| beseechment \| bidding prayer \| bond \| bracket \| breviary \| bridge \| bridge over \| bring \| bring together \| bulk \| bunch \| bunch together \| bunch up \| cement \| chain \| chaplet \| clap together \| clot \| clump \| cluster \| colligate \| collocate \| combine \| come \| come together \| communion \| compare \| compile \| comprise \| concatenate \| concentrate \| conclude \| conglobulate \| conglomerate \| congregate \| congress \| conjoin \| conjugate \| connect \| contemplation \| control \| convene \| converge \| cool \| copulate \| corral \| couple \| cover \| crowd \| cull \| cumulate \| date \| deduce \| deduct \| derive \| devotions \| dig up \| dispose \| draw \| draw a conclusion \| draw an inference \| draw together \| draw up \| dredge up \| drive together \| embrace \| encompass \| entreaty \| extract \| fetch \| find \| flock together \| flow together \| forgather \| fuse \| gang around \| gang up \| garner \| garner up \| gather \| gather around \| gather in \| gather into barns \| gather together \| gather up \| get \| get in \| get together \| glean \| glue \| grace \| group \| grub \| grub up \| Hail Mary \| heap up \| herd together \| hide \| hive \| hoard \| hoard up \| hold \| horde \| huddle \| impetration \| imploration \| include \| induce \| infer \| intercession \| invocation \| join \| judge \| juxtapose \| keep \| knot \| Kyrie Eleison \| lay together \| lay up \| league \| link \| litany \| lump together \| make \| make out \| make up \| marry \| marshal \| mass \| match \| meditation \| meet \| merge \| mill \| mobilize \| muster \| obsecration \| obtestation \| order \| orison \| pair \| partner \| Paternoster \| petition \| pick \| pick up \| piece together \| pile up \| pluck \| prayer \| prayer wheel \| put together \| put up \| raise \| rake up \| rally \| rally around \| rank \| reason \| reason that \| rein \| rendezvous \| repress \| restrain \| rogation \| roll into one \| rosary \| round up \| save \| save up \| scare up \| scrape together \| scrape up \| secrete \| seethe \| silent prayer \| simmer down \| smother \| solder \| span \| splice \| squirrel \| squirrel away \| stick together \| stock up \| stockpile \| store up \| stream \| suit \| summon up \| supplication \| suppress \| surge \| swarm \| take as proved \| take in \| take up \| tape \| thanks \| thanksgiving \| throng \| tie \| together \| treasure \| treasure up \| unify \| unite \| weld \| whip in \| yoke See Also \| accumulate \| acquire \| amass \| archive \| bale \| beat up \| birdnest \| catch \| chunk \| clam \| clump \| cluster \| collect \| collect \| come up \| come up \| compile \| constellate \| corral \| crowd \| crowd together \| cull \| drum up \| farm \| file away \| flock \| fort \| fort up \| fund \| gather up \| get \| glean \| harvest \| heap up \| hive \| hive \| hive away \| hoard \| lay in \| lift up \| lump \| marshal \| mobilise \| mobilize \| move \| muster \| muster up \| nest \| nut \| orison \| oyster \| pearl \| petition \| pick \| pick up \| pile up \| pluck \| prayer \| pull in \| put in \| raise \| rake \| rally \| reap \| round up \| run up \| salt away \| salvage \| scavenge \| scrape \| scrape up \| shock \| snail \| sponge \| stack away \| stack up \| stash away \| store \| summon \| take Collect In Webster's Dictionary \Collect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Collected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Collecting}.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See {Legend}, and cf. {Coil}, v. t., {Cull}, v. t.] 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. --Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. --Watts. 2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes. 3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] --Shak. Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. --Locke. {To collect one's self}, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control. Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce. \Collect"\, v. i. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks. 2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. --South. \Col"lect\, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See {Collect}, v. t.] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. --Macaulay.

Collect Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Collect?

[n] a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
[adv] make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
[adj] payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
[v] assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
[v] get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"
[v] move together
[v] call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
[v] get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for athe man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"
[v] gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"

Collect In Webster's Dictionary

\Col*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Collected}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Collecting}.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to
bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter.
See {Legend}, and cf. {Coil}, v. t., {Cull}, v. t.]
1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring
   together; to obtain by gathering.

         A band of men Collected choicely from each country.
                                               --Shak.

         'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by
         preserving what our labor and industry daily
         collect.                              --Watts.

2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other
   indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
   [Archaic.] --Shak.

         Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
                                               --Locke.

{To collect one's self}, to recover from surprise,
   embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.

Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate;
     garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.


\Col*lect"\, v. i.
1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd;
   to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic]

         Whence some collect that the former word imports a
         plurality of persons.                 --South.


\Col"lect\, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a
collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F.
collecte. See {Collect}, v. t.]
A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day,
occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

      The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly
      a collect in verse.                      --Macaulay.

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