collect1 verbcollect2 adverbcollect3 noun
collectcol‧lect1 /kəˈlekt/ ●●● S1 W2 verb 
WORD ORIGINcollect1
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin past participle of colligere, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + legere ‘to gather’VERB TABLE
collect
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | collect |
| he, she, it | collects | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | collected |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have collected |
| he, she, it | has collected | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had collected |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will collect |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have collected |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am collecting |
| he, she, it | is collecting | |
| you, we, they | are collecting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was collecting |
| you, we, they | were collecting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been collecting |
| he, she, it | has been collecting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been collecting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be collecting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been collecting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A crowd was starting to collect outside the theatre to await the arrival of the prime minister.
- After 25 years of collecting recipes, Barber has compiled them into a cookbook.
- An hour or so before the press conference, a crowd begin to collect outside the building.
- Anyone who collects jazz records should buy this book. It's full of information on old recordings.
- As the tide came in, water collected to form small pools among the rocks.
- He's been collecting signatures of voters to get the measure on the ballot.
- Her father sent a taxi to collect her from the hotel.
- Historians are skilled in collecting facts and interpreting them.
- I'm at the station. Can you come and collect me?
- I've been collecting samples of the different types of rock which occur in this area.
- I've come to collect Mr. Weinstein's order.
- I've got a parcel to collect from the post office.
- If condensation collects on the inside of the window, wipe it off with a clean cloth.
- If the last bus has left, I'll collect you.
- Nigel's hobby is collecting rare books.
- Organizers have already collected 650 signatures.
- People who are collecting welfare checks usually really need them.
- Rain collecting at the tip of the rock has formed huge icicles.
- Rent is collected once a month.
- The building uses solar panels for collecting the sun's heat.
- I had duly collected Nigel's ashes.
- I joked that I had to go and collect my $ 40,000 appearance money.
- Profit fell because the company was unable to collect claims against the oil buffer fund.
- That would have allowed them to collect nearly $ 2 in federal funds for each local dollar.
- The next day, the parents took the children into the woods to collect wood; each got one piece of bread.
- They collected the garbage like their jobs depended on it, cheaper and better.
- They feed by collecting tiny particles from the water.
- You collect interest of 1.13% a month when you're in credit.
THESAURUS
to get things of the same type from different places and bring them together: · She collects stamps (=as a hobby).· They have collected 650 signatures for their petition.
to collect information from different places, or to collect crops, flowers, wood etc, especially from the ground: · Computers make it easier to gather information.· The men gathered firewood.
formal to collect something such as information in an organized way: · When all the evidence is assembled, we will write our report.
to gradually collect more things of the same type over time: · He has built up one of the country’s finest collections of art.
to gradually get more and more of something such as money, possessions, or knowledge, over time. Accumulate is more formal than build up: · He is driven by the desire to accumulate wealth.
to collect a large amount of something such as money, information, or knowledge, over time: · Carnegie amassed a fortune in the steel industry.
informal to allow a debt to increase quickly, especially by spending too much: · He ran up huge gambling debts.
Longman Language Activatorto collect things · Arlene collects teddy bears.· Nigel's hobby is collecting rare books.· Anyone who collects jazz records should buy this book. It's full of information on old recordings.
someone who collects things: coin/stamp/antiques etc collector · He's been a coin collector for years.· The gallery was full of art collectors and dealers.collector of · He's an avid collector of Beatles memorabilia.
things that have been collected a group of things that someone has collected because they are attractive or interesting: coin/stamp etc collection: · Have you seen Alvin's stamp collection?collection of: · On the shelf was his mother's collection of crystal vases.· The museum has one of the world's finest collections of Impressionist paintings.
a complete collection of one type of object: · The head teacher was presented with a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, worth more than £1,600.complete set: · For sale - "The Guitarist" magazine - complete set, 1984-1992.set of: · a set of commemorative gold coins
when people come together to make a crowd if people gather , they meet or come together and form a crowd: · By the time the president arrived, a large crowd had gathered.gather around/at/in etc: · Angry workers were gathering on the steps of City Hall.· A crowd gathered around to watch the fight.
if a crowd forms , more and more people join a group of people who are already watching or listening to something: · A crowd was beginning to form at the scene of the accident.
if people congregate in a particular place, a large number of them meet there, especially regularly in the same place, and at the same time: congregate at/in/around etc: · On Friday evening, teenagers congregate outside the bars on Greene Street.· Marchers were due to congregate at Market Square for an open-air meeting.
formal if groups of people converge in a particular place, they come there from many different places and meet together with others to form a large crowd, in order to do something or go somewhere: converge on: · The two groups of demonstrators converged on Hyde Park.· About 20,000 motorcyclists will converge on Milwaukee this weekend, to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Harley Davidson bike company.
if a crowd collects , people gradually come together so that there is a crowd, usually because they stop to watch or listen to something: · An hour or so before the press conference, a crowd began to collect outside the building.· A crowd was starting to collect outside the theatre to await the arrival of the prime minister.
to get a large number of things from several different places or people to get things of the same type from different places and bring them together: · I've been collecting samples of the different types of rock which occur in this area.· Historians are skilled in collecting facts and interpreting them.· Organizers have already collected 650 signatures.
to search for and get things of the same type from different places: · Many of the plants in the gardens were gathered on trips to Japan and China.· Some of the men gathered firewood while others made a fire.· Computers make it far easier to gather information.
to get and put together something such as proof or information in an organized way: · We will let you have the report as soon as we have assembled all the data.· When all the evidence is assembled, it will be clear that Michael is innocent.
to increase by gradually adding more to increase gradually in number or amount until there is a large quantity in one place: · An army of 1650 plows and 2000 workers will be out this afternoon as snow begins to accumulate.· Sand had accumulated at the mouth of the river and formed a bank which boats could not pass.· Over a period of years, the drug will accumulate in the body and damage the nervous system.
if something such as a substance or a force builds up somewhere, it increases gradually as more of it is added or more of it appears: · Deposits of lime will stick to the surface and build up over the years.· As the temperature rises, the pressure builds up inside the chamber.· Fertilizers can contain salts that build up in the soil.
informal if something such as work or debt piles up , it increases as more is added to it until there is a large quantity of it: · The work just keeps on piling up and makes me want to scream.· As her debts piled up, she came close to a nervous breakdown.
if prices, costs, debts etc mount up , they increase as more is added over a period of time, and cause more and more problems: · She finally had to go back to work to pay the bills that were mounting up.· The national debt has mounted up, growing to $1 trillion since Clinton took office.
if something such as a liquid collects somewhere, it goes to that place and the amount there gradually increases: · As the tide came in, water collected to form small pools among the rocks.collect on/inside/behind etc: · Rain collecting at the tip of the rock has formed huge icicles.· If condensation collects on the inside of the window, wipe it off with a clean cloth.
if a substance such as dirt, snow etc gathers somewhere, more and more of it appears in that place and stays there: · There were gaps between the floorboards where dust and bits of grime had gathered.gather on/around/behind etc: · Snow gathered thickly in the folds of their clothes.· Harry was afraid. Sweat gathered on his upper lip.
to meet someone in order to take them somewhere · We'll meet you at the airport and take you to your hotel.· The company is sending a car to meet Mr Hill at the station.· Our guide met us in the hotel lobby and spent the entire day with us.
to meet someone at a particular place in order to take them somewhere in a car, bus etc: pick somebody up: · She picks her daughter up from school every day at four.· I told Virginia I'd pick her up about 8:00.pick up somebody: · I arranged to pick up Mr Clarke and take him to his accommodation.
British to meet someone at a particular place in order to take them somewhere: · Her father sent a taxi to collect her from the hotel.· If the last bus has left, I'll collect you.
to go to a place and take someone or something from there to go to the place where someone or something is, and bring them back, or tell them to come back: · I'll get my coat and then we can go.· Dinner's ready. Can you get Jo?· I've got to get the kids in a few minutes.get somebody something (=get something for someone): · Could you get me my keys from the kitchen?· I'm going to get myself a beer, does anyone else want one?go (and) get somebody/something: · Go and get your father. He's in the garden.· Forget the cooking, let's go get takeout.
to go to a place where someone or something is waiting for you or ready for you, and take them with you: pick somebody/something up: · Do you want me to come back and pick you guys up?· Nadia will pick you up at the airport.· Can you pick some milk up from the shop on your way home?pick up somebody/something: · "Where's Diana?" "She just left to pick up the kids from school."· I'll pick up the tickets on my way home from work.· Hi, I've come to pick up a suit I left on Tuesday.
British to go to the place where someone or something is waiting for you, and bring them back: · I'm at the station. Can you come and collect me?· We'll have to eat later, I'm collecting Grandma from the hospital this evening.· I've got a parcel to collect from the post office.
British to go to get someone or something that you need and bring them back: · Jim's gone to fetch the police.· Where's your mug? Go and fetch it.· Martha fetched a towel from the bathroom.fetch somebody something: · Could you fetch me a screwdriver?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
The landlady came around once a month to collect the rent. I didn’t know what to do with it, so it just sat there collecting dust.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Outwardly she is cool, calm, and collected.
The landlady came around once a month to collect the rent. I didn’t know what to do with it, so it just sat there collecting dust. American English (=one paid for by the person who receives it)· Can I make a collect call to Florida, please?
Outwardly she is cool, calm, and collected.· The survey data has been collected over the last three decades.
(=become covered with dust)· Piles of old books lay on the floor gathering dust.
· Police experts are still collecting evidence at the scene of the crime.
· The job consisted of gathering information about consumer needs.
(=receive it or go to get it)· She went to the post office every week to collect her pension.
· His job is to collect the rents from the tenants.
· The study took samples from workers at four nuclear plants.
· Police have not yet compiled statistics for this year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· He began to collect together an aerial force to attack the city.· By the beginning of February they had collected together most of their provisions.· This book collects together what I consider to be some of the major unsolved mysteries of science.· Groups of foods that are good sources of certain nutrients are collected together in six appendices.· But this merely collected together the singles and other stray tracks.· More generally, document boundaries may be blurred and a massive body of material may be collected together in one interlinked corpus.· What is needed, therefore, is a way of collecting together all the processor registers to allow rapid process switches.· They were collected together by Dean Milner-White who assembled them here where they could be appreciated.
NOUN· Cote keeps leaping out of his seat to collect award after award.· Celebrities including Michael Crawford and Peter Bowles saw her collect her bravery award.· After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it.
· New York City health officials were able analyze very recent data because the city collects birth and death records for its residents.· It will be based on computer literature searches, previous data collected at Templeton College, and other methods.· The research is especially vulnerable if the data are collected from personal interviews.· Primary data is most frequently collected by means of surveys, based on questionnaires or interviews.· Although the data collected were quite adequate for this purpose, no attempt was made to claim representativeness for the doorstep survey.· Figure 1 shows the existing Northumbria Police area where most of the ethnographic data was collected.· The necessary data will be collected by questionnaire survey.
· Mahmoud was responsible for collecting the evidence, deciding whether there was a case, and then carrying through prosecution.· Agents would continue collecting evidence at least through Friday, Alexander said.· The Commission has a discretion to conduct an investigation in order to collect information and evidence pertinent to the request for assistance.· The federal government already has spent $ 24 million collecting evidence.· A mixture of qualitative and quantitative research methods will be employed to collect evidence about the efficacy and impact of the Plans.· But having been once rebuffed, the Scandinavians set about collecting more evidence.
· Such information is often laboriously collected by literature-searching and is conventionally processed as text.· The information the device collects helps divers gather more accurate records of free-fall times.· We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected.· These objectives should be based on the information collected in the needs assessment.· The interviews were supplemented by as much documentary information as could be collected.· The information collected was subsequently published; three topics are of particular interest.· The information will be collected on a confidential hot line, called Raceguard, operating on a 24-hour answerphone from next Tuesday.· Quantum and costs information can be collected on specially designed forms.
· During the Worthing trial, three-quarters of the 5,000 households involved used the crates to collect recyclable materials.· After collecting all kinds of material the catapult began to take shape.· At last, after collecting enough materials, Endill was ready to start building the wings of his plane.· In such cases the interview is used to collect illustrative material to complement other material and findings.· Officers collect and present material both to committees and to the whole council.· By now photography had become much more than a way to collect material for my first passion, artwork.· Nothing would suggest the man who had collected the material for Psychopathia Sexualis.
· Pensioners at the complex have been collecting money to help the town's hospice appeal for the last two years.· The trust fund now collects money from 125 million workers to pay benefits to 43 million people.· They are carrying out directed interviews there, and will collect time and money budgets.· The suit claims that the airlines, which collected the money, should refund it to consumers.· Please collect counterfoils and money from your class members and send to Joan Daniels as soon as possible.· There remained a faint possibility that Newley would try to identify the person who collected the money.· Some bands are extremely keen to sign with a respected manager who insists on collecting the artist's money.· If the manager collects the money, the artist may insist the manager sets up a completely separate bank account.
· People who normally collect pensions and other benefits from there are advised to go to nearby sub-post offices.
· Many of them do not even bother to collect rents.· In regulated industries such as trucking and airlines, workers collected some of the rents that accrued from regulation.· These councils do not collect their rents and have lost control of their rented housing stock.· We could just sit back and collect rents from an ever-decreasing number of tenants.· Council houses and flats are owned by the districts who maintain them and collect the rents.· He too had abandoned Mayo, leaving an agent to manage the estate and collect the rents.· When you invited me to stay here, I didn't realise you planned to collect the rent in kind.· A VAT-registered landlord may have a managing agent to collect standard-rated rents.
· A water quality officer interprets the information and can instruct Cyclops to collect a sample of the discharge in a sealed container.· After he died physicians collected and froze samples of his blood and lymph nodes for future study.· So one night I collected samples from all five and went home for a serious tasting.· We have collected together a representative sample of these and present them here.
· Liberal forces have already begun to collect the million signatures needed to call a popular vote.· On April 29, Cahill temporarily blocked backers from collecting signatures to put the immigrant voting measure on the ballot.· Members of its executive council have been collecting signatures in the border region.· Supporters must collect enough signatures by Feb. 21 to qualify the initiative for the ballot.· Andy Naughton-Doe, a chartered secretary, is collecting signatures to seek a conversion vote.· In California, for example, Reform Party supporters collected 124, 117 signatures.· The Bristol group collected the signatures of 46 international figures to sell for Amnesty funds.
· His cadres collect taxes and impose justice.· States collect taxes and subsume many of the responsibilities of governing from the county.· The only government authorities that collect income tax at present are the republics and provinces.· It will have promised its elderly more than it can collect in taxes from those who are working.· The Revenue will have to collect tax from each individual partner.· The treasurer collects local taxes and invests city money until it is needed.· Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government.· Services include making sure payments are collected and insurance and taxes are paid on loans that are packaged and resold to investors.
· He barely had time to collect his thoughts before they were shown in.· Laing pauses to collect his thoughts when considering what was perhaps the most difficult decision of his long career.· I piped up in his defense, having had moments to collect my thoughts.· Then, collecting her thoughts, shutting out all sound save that in her headset, she began to take down the message.· He stopped for a few minutes in a small park to enjoy the scenery and collect his thoughts.· He listened intently, trying to collect his thoughts away from the past of his dreams to the present of reality.· Then he paused to collect his thoughts.
· He added that out of the 26 councils in Northumbria Water's area only five no longer wished to collect payments for water.· These plants should be collected from the deepest water possible or form a shaded area such as under a bridge or pier.· She collected firewood and carried water.· Beneath each machine a wrought-iron pan was installed to collect the water, which contained carbonate of soda to prevent rust.· In some cabinets this may be as simple as a tray beneath the cabinet, which collects the water.· There were no drainage ditches here, the shoulders too abrupt, the slope too precipitous, to collect water.· Settlement cracks go in various directions and result in a depression that collects water.· The women return to their daily treks to distant rivers, springs or canals to collect polluted water.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- He has been calling collect on the telephone, begging her to visit.
- He remained still and tried to gather his wits.
- I felt helpless, but tried to gather my wits.
- I tried to collect my wits for the arrival.
- It is gone even before the predator can gather its wits and make chase.
- She slowly gathered her wits, and looked round.
- When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so, avoiding touching him at all costs.
WORD FAMILYnouncollectioncollectorcollectivecollectablecollectiblecollectivismcollectivizationadjectivecollectedcollectivecollectablecollectiblecollectivistverbcollectcollectivizeadverbcollectively
1bring together [transitive] to get things of the same type from different places and bring them together: After 25 years of collecting recipes, she has compiled them into a cookbook. The company collects information about consumer trends. We’ve been out collecting signatures for our petition.2keep objects [transitive] to get and keep objects of the same type, because you think they are attractive or interesting: Arlene collects teddy bears.3rent/debts/taxes [transitive] to get money that you are owedcollect tax/rent/a debt The landlady came around once a month to collect the rent.4money to help people [intransitive, transitive] to ask people to give you money or goods for an organization that helps peoplecollect for I’m collecting for Children in Need.5increase in amount [intransitive, transitive] if something collects in a place, or you collect it there, it gradually increases in amount: Rain collected in pools on the road. solar panels for collecting energy from the sun I didn’t know what to do with it, so it just sat there collecting dust.6win something [transitive] to receive something because you have won a race, game etc: Redgrave collected his fifth Olympic gold medal in Sydney.7collect yourself/collect your thoughts to make an effort to remain calm and think clearly and carefully about something: I got there early so I had a few minutes to collect my thoughts before the meeting began.8take somebody/something from a place [transitive] especially British English to come to a particular place in order to take someone or something away SYN pick up American English: Martin’s gone to collect the children from school. I’ve got to go and collect the book I ordered from the library.9crowd [intransitive] formal to come together gradually to form a group of people SYN gather: A crowd was beginning to collect around the scene of the accident.THESAURUScollect to get things of the same type from different places and bring them together: · She collects stamps (=as a hobby).· They have collected 650 signatures for their petition.gather to collect information from different places, or to collect crops, flowers, wood etc, especially from the ground: · Computers make it easier to gather information.· The men gathered firewood.assemble formal to collect something such as information in an organized way: · When all the evidence is assembled, we will write our report.build up to gradually collect more things of the same type over time: · He has built up one of the country’s finest collections of art.accumulate to gradually get more and more of something such as money, possessions, or knowledge, over time. Accumulate is more formal than build up: · He is driven by the desire to accumulate wealth.amass to collect a large amount of something such as money, information, or knowledge, over time: · Carnegie amassed a fortune in the steel industry.run up a bill/debt/loss informal to allow a debt to increase quickly, especially by spending too much: · He ran up huge gambling debts.collect something ↔ up phrasal verb British English to pick up several things, and put them together SYN gather up: Can you collect up all the dirty plates and cups?collect1 verbcollect2 adverbcollect3 noun
collectcollect2 adverb EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- He has no money but knows how to call home collect, according to police.
- I called from Chicago, leaving messages once, twice and even asked people to call me back collect.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Outwardly she is cool, calm, and collected.
American English (=one paid for by the person who receives it)· Can I make a collect call to Florida, please?
Outwardly she is cool, calm, and collected.· The survey data has been collected over the last three decades.
(=become covered with dust)· Piles of old books lay on the floor gathering dust.
· Police experts are still collecting evidence at the scene of the crime.
· The job consisted of gathering information about consumer needs.
(=receive it or go to get it)· She went to the post office every week to collect her pension.
· His job is to collect the rents from the tenants.
· The study took samples from workers at four nuclear plants.
· Police have not yet compiled statistics for this year.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
call/phone somebody collect American English if you telephone someone collect, the person who receives the call pays for it SYN reverse the charges British English- He has been calling collect on the telephone, begging her to visit.
- He remained still and tried to gather his wits.
- I felt helpless, but tried to gather my wits.
- I tried to collect my wits for the arrival.
- It is gone even before the predator can gather its wits and make chase.
- She slowly gathered her wits, and looked round.
- When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so, avoiding touching him at all costs.
collect1 verbcollect2 adverbcollect3 noun
collectcol‧lect3 /ˈkɒlɪkt, -lekt $ ˈkɑː-/ noun [countable] WORD ORIGINcollect3
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French collecte, from Medieval Latin collecta ‘(prayer for) a gathering’, from Latin colligere; ➔ COLLECT1WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Outwardly she is cool, calm, and collected.
American English (=one paid for by the person who receives it)· Can I make a collect call to Florida, please?
Outwardly she is cool, calm, and collected.· The survey data has been collected over the last three decades.
(=become covered with dust)· Piles of old books lay on the floor gathering dust.
· Police experts are still collecting evidence at the scene of the crime.
· The job consisted of gathering information about consumer needs.
(=receive it or go to get it)· She went to the post office every week to collect her pension.
· His job is to collect the rents from the tenants.
· The study took samples from workers at four nuclear plants.
· Police have not yet compiled statistics for this year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB· Talk for an hour. Call collect.· He has been calling collect on the telephone, begging her to visit.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a short prayer in some Christian services- He has been calling collect on the telephone, begging her to visit.
- He remained still and tried to gather his wits.
- I felt helpless, but tried to gather my wits.
- I tried to collect my wits for the arrival.
- It is gone even before the predator can gather its wits and make chase.
- She slowly gathered her wits, and looked round.
- When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so, avoiding touching him at all costs.