collect

Signification

Verb

1. To gather together; amass.
2. To get; particularly, get from someone.
3. To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
4. To pick up or fetch
5. To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
6. To collect payments.
7. To come together in a group or mass.
8. To infer; to conclude.
9. To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

Adj

To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

Adv

With payment due from the recipient.

Noun

The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kəˈlɛkt/

Étymologie

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”).