collect

Meaning

Verb

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

Synonyms

gather

assemble

accumulate

pick up

amass

compile

gather up

gather together

pick

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harvest

raise

get

hoard

bring together

garner

pile up

store up

heap up

heap

muster

store

heap together

save

glean

round up

put together

take in

keep

levy

fetch

convene

combine

group

pile

crowd

concentrate

add

select

take

receive

aggregate

roll up

pull in

get together

draw together

draw

cumulate

exact

mass

cash

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Translations

sammeln

raccogliere

rassembler

collectionner

recoger

verzamelen

recueillir

collecter

reunir

ramasser

coleccionar

réunir

einsammeln

reunir

inzamelen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈlɛkt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: collecten

Inherited from Middle English: collecte

In summary

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”).