to gather together; assemble: The professor collected the students' exams.
to accumulate; make a collection of: to collect stamps.
to receive or compel payment of: to collect a bill.
to regain control of (oneself or one's thoughts, faculties, composure, or the like): At the news of her promotion, she took a few minutes to collect herself.
to call for and take with one: He drove off to collect his guests. They collected their mail.
Manège. to bring (a horse) into a collected attitude.
Archaic. to infer.
verb (used without object)
to gather together; assemble: The students collected in the assembly hall.
to accumulate: Rainwater collected in the barrel.
to receive payment (often followed by on): He collected on the damage to his house.
to gather or bring together books, stamps, coins, etc., usually as a hobby: He's been collecting for years.
Manège. (of a horse) to come into a collected attitude.
adjective, adverb
requiring payment by the recipient: a collect telephone call; a telegram sent collect.
Origin of collect
1
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Latin collēctus (past participle of colligere “to collect”), equivalent to col- “with, together” + leg- (stem of legere “to gather”) + -tus past participle suffix; see col-1
Hooks into the data these agencies already collect, cleans it up, then pipes it into a dashboard to help these transit agencies find ways to improve their routes and ridership.
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This is truly a unique notebook to write, draw, or collect your thoughts.
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That trend is similar to, though a bit faster than, the one indicated by real-time temperatures collected by Argo floats.
That water will instead run downhill, collecting sediment, rocks and other debris.
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Because 8kun is difficult to navigate and rife with other disturbing content, many people interested in QAnon instead use aggregators that collect and present the Q drops.
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Then the gift card is shopped online in a gray market to collect cold currency.
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How a car would be sent to collect him and he would be taken somewhere.
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Divide the mixture evenly among the crème brûlée dishes, including any juices that collect.
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In order to break the spell and bear children, they must collect four items from the mysterious woods.
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When I was young, I loved to dig and find and collect fossils.
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Now he would plunder the corpses of his enemies and collect the dead and wounded.
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For some seconds Vasili Andreevich could not collect himself or understand what was happening.
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He meditated and calculated day and night, and formed great plans of campaign to collect the most absolutely necessary cash.
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Bees are sometimes drowned (or suffocated) in the honey which they collect.
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British Dictionary definitions for collect (1 of 2)
collect1
/ (kəˈlɛkt) /
verb
to gather together or be gathered together
to accumulate (stamps, books, etc) as a hobby or for study
(tr)to call for or receive payment of (taxes, dues, etc)
(tr)to regain control of (oneself, one's emotions, etc) as after a shock or surprisehe collected his wits
(tr)to fetch; pick upcollect your own post; he collected the children after school
(intr sometimes foll by on) slangto receive large sums of money, as from an investmenthe really collected when the will was read
(tr)Australian and NZinformalto collide with; be hit by
collect on delivery the US term for cash on delivery
adverb, adjective
US(of telephone calls) on a reverse-charge basis
noun
Australianinformala winning bet
Word Origin for collect
C16: from Latin collēctus collected, from colligere to gather together, from com- together + legere to gather
British Dictionary definitions for collect (2 of 2)
collect2
/ (ˈkɒlɛkt) /
noun
Christianitya short Church prayer generally preceding the lesson or epistle in Communion and other services
Word Origin for collect
C13: from Medieval Latin collecta (from the phrase ōrātiō ad collēctam prayer at the (people's) assembly), from Latin colligere to collect1