单词 | collect |
释义 | collect (once / 35 pages) 1v 2v 3adjadv 4n The verb collect describes gathering or bringing something together. Charity organizations often collect warm coats for people in need. Other people who want to help those in need seek monetary donations. If you volunteer for a charity, you may collect on behalf of the charity — meaning you get donations. Collect can also refer to getting payment for money that is owed. If you owe money to someone, eventually he'll find you and say, "I'm here to collect." WORD FAMILYcollect: collectable, collected, collectible, collecting, collection, collective, collector, collects, recollect+/collected: collectedly, self-collected, uncollected/collectible: collectibles, uncollectible/collecting: collectings/collection: collections/collective: collectively, collectives, collectivise, collectivism, collectivize/collectivise: collectivisation, collectivised/collectivism: collectivisms, collectivist, collectivistic/collectivist: collectivists/collectivistic: collectivistically/collectivization: collectivizations/collectivize: collectivization, collectivized, collectivizing/collector: collectors/recollect: recollected, recollecting, recollection, recollective, recollects/recollection: recollections USAGE EXAMPLESA product with more than 50 percent foreign milk must say where it was collected and turned into the product being sold. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) It was the fourth time in Magarity’s career she’s collected 17 boards. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) As players arrived to collect their belongings from the team’s practice center, some exchanged goodbyes, unsure if they would be back here in the spring. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v gather or collect Syn|Hyper call for, gather up, pick up acquire, get come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 2v get or gather together Syn|Hypo|Hyper accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up run up pile up (debts or scores) corralcollect or gather pull inget or bring together come up, scrape, scrape up, scratchgather (money or other resources) together over time chunk, lumpput together indiscriminately balemake into a bale catchtake in and retain fundaccumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability fundplace or store up in a fund for accumulation archive, file awayput into an archive nickel-and-dimeaccumulate gradually beat up, drum up, rallygather hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store keep or lay aside for future use 3v get or bring together Syn|Hypo|Hyper pull in archive, file away put into an archive beat up, drum up, rallygather accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up get or gather together 4v assemble or get together 2Syn|Ant|Hypo garner, gather, pull together distribute, spread distribute or disperse widely marshal, mobilise, mobilize, summon make ready for action or use rakegather with a rake glean, harvest, reapgather, as of natural products clubgather into a club-like mass hivegather into a hive salvage, scavengecollect discarded or refused material come up, muster, muster up, rally, summongather or bring together round upseek out and bring together cull, pick, plucklook for and gather nutgather nuts snailgather snails bird-nest, birdnestgather birdnests nestgather nests oystergather oysters, dig oysters spongegather sponges, in the ocean pearlgather pearls, from oysters in the ocean clamgather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean shockcollect or gather into shocks heap up, pile up, stack uparrange into piles or stacks whelkgather whelk cutreap or harvest mushroompick or gather mushrooms berrypick or gather berries v call for and obtain payment of 3we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts he collected the rent Syn|Hypo|Hyper take in farm collect fees or profits raisecollect funds for a specific purpose fund raise, fund-raise, fundraiseraise money for a cause or project take take into one's possession 1adj payable by the recipient on delivery a collect call the letter came collect Syn cod due owed and payable immediately or on demand 2adv make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays 4call collect send a package collect n a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England Hyper orison, petition, prayer reverent petition to a deity |
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