collect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: collects
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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”).
Senses: examples: text: Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
text: The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
text: Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref: 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
text: At first, I swept the lowest-growing plants, collecting a variety of mostly chrysomelids and curculionids and even one Agrilus sp., before moving to beating along the sunny edges of the patches of taller shrubs and collecting similar species (but no Agrilus sp.).
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
glosses: To gather together; amass.
examples: text: A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
text: 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.
ref: 2021 November 2, Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, “Poison in the Air”, in ProPublica:
glosses: To get; particularly, get from someone.
examples: text: John Henry collects stamps.
text: I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
text: My friend from school has started to collects mangas and novels recently
text: Over the course of 60 years, W E Hayward collected thousands of railway-related objects, including clothing, buttons, cutlery, timetables, tickets, name, number and builder's plates, books and booklets, cuttings and extracts from publications, letters, photographs and postcards.
ref: 2020 June 17, Stefanie Foster, “A window into the railways of the past”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
examples: text: Can you collect me from the airport?
glosses: To pick up or fetch
examples: text: […] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
ref: 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XVII, section 20:
text: From the latter passages we may collect, that the expression "he that cometh" was, with the Jews, a kind of title distinguishing the Messiah
ref: c 1725, John Walker, William Burton (of Bloomsbury), Essays and correspondence, chiefly on Scriptural subjects:
text: 'I collect,' said Miss Crawford, 'that Sotherton is an old place, and a place of some grandeur. In any particular style of building?'
ref: 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:
text: the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, pages 292–3:
glosses: To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
examples: text: He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
qualifier: often with on or against
glosses: To collect payments.
examples: text: The rain collected in puddles.
glosses: To come together in a group or mass.
examples: text: Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To infer; to conclude.
examples: text: The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
glosses: To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
raw_tags: of a vehicle or driver
Synonyms: sense: to gather together
word: aggregate
word: gather up
word: round up
sense: to get from someone
word: receive
word: secure
word: receive
sense: to accumulate items for a hobby
word: amound
word: gather
word: accumulate
sense: to infer, conclude, form a conclusion
word: assume
sense: to infer, conclude, form a conclusion
word: construe
sense: to come together in a group or mass
word: group
word: mass
word: merge
word: assemble
word: coalesce
sense: to collide with
word: bump into
sense: to collide with
word: plough into
sense: to collide with
word: run into
Hyponyms: garbage collect