The verb collect describes gathering or bringing something together. Charity organizations often collect warm coats for people in need.
To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
Noun
a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
Verb
assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
Verb
get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"
Verb
call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
Verb
get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man''s unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
Verb
gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week"
Adjective S.
payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
Adverb
make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
v. t.
To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring
together; to obtain by gathering.
v. t.
To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or
other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
v. t.
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from
premises.
v. i.
To assemble together; as, the people collected in a
crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
v. i.
To infer; to conclude.
v. t.
A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular
day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
Collect
A band of men Collected choicely from each country.
'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect.2.
Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
Collect
Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
Collect
The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse.
To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
To assemble together;
A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
Usage Examples
I love to collect modern art.
Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
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Other Usage ExamplesI'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.
Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
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