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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 \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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