collect
Part of speech: verb
adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: collects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: collecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: collected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: collected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: collect
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: collect
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: collected
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: collect
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: collectest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: collected
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: collectedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: collects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: collecteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: collected
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: collect
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: collected
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: collect
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: collected
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: collect
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: collecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: collected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: collects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To gather together; amass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
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.
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.).
gloss: To get; particularly, get from someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
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.
gloss: To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: John Henry collects stamps.
I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
My friend from school has started to collects mangas and novels recently
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.
gloss: To pick up or fetch
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you collect me from the airport?
gloss: To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: […] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
From the latter passages we may collect, that the expression "he that cometh" was, with the Jews, a kind of title distinguishing the Messiah
'I collect,' said Miss Crawford, 'that Sotherton is an old place, and a place of some grandeur. In any particular style of building?'
the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
gloss: To collect payments.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
gloss: To come together in a group or mass.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The rain collected in puddles.
gloss: To infer; to conclude.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
gloss: To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
gloss: To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
gloss: With payment due from the recipient.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I had to call collect.
gloss: The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
sometimes
examples: He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
Synonyms: gather up
secure
gather
mass
merge
coalesce
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