collect /ko- or kə-lektˈ/

1. To assemble or bring together
2. To put (one's thoughts) in order
3. To receive payment of
4. To call for and remove
5. To collide with (Aust and NZ informal)

1. To come together
2. To accumulate

A short prayer, specific to the liturgies of the Western Church, consisting of one sentence, conveying one main petition

Paid for by the recipient

collectabil'ity noun

collectˈable or collectˈible adjective

Of interest to a collector

1. Any item of interest to a collector
2. One of a set of toys or ornaments each purchasable separately but priced and marketed in such a way as to encourage the purchase of all or much of the range

collectāˈnea plural noun

1. A collection of passages from various sources
2. A miscellany

collectˈed adjective

1. Gathered together
2. (of a poet's or other writer's works) assembled in one volume, one set of volumes, etc
3. Composed, cool

collectˈedly adverb

collectˈedness noun

1. Self-possession
2. Coolness

collectˈing noun and adjective

collecˈtion noun

1. The act of collecting
2. The gathering of contributions, esp of money
3. The money collected
4. Money intended for collection in church
5. An accumulation
6. An assemblage
7. A book of selections
8. A regular removal of rubbish for disposal, or letters from a postbox for delivering
9. Composure
10. (in pl) an examination at the end of the terms in certain colleges
11. The range of new fashion clothes shown by a couturier

collectˈive adjective

1. Considered as forming one mass or sum
2. Congregated
3. Common
4. Denoting a number or group (of people, animals, etc) (grammar)

1. A gathering, assemblage
2. A unit of organization in a collectivist system
3. Loosely, a group of people who run a business, etc, for their mutual benefit, often with no specifically designated jobs

collectˈively adverb

collectˈivism noun

1. The economic theory that industry should be carried on with a collective capital, a form of socialism
2. A system embodying this

collectˈivist noun and adjective

collectivistˈic adjective

collectivˈity noun

collectivizāˈtion or collectivisāˈtion noun

collectˈivize or collectˈivise transitive verb

To give a collectivist organization to

collectˈor noun

1. Something which or someone who collects
2. A person who seeks to acquire and set together examples or specimens, as of books, minerals, curiosities
3. Any electrode that collects electrons that have already fulfilled their function, as in a screen grid
4. The outer section of a transistor which delivers a primary flow of charge carriers
5. In India, the chief official of a district, collecting revenue and acting as a magistrate

• resipiscence
• resipiscences
• resipiscency
• resipiscent
• res ipsa loquitur
• resist
• resistance
• resistance box
• resistance boxes
• resistance coil
• resistance coils
• resistance movement
• resistance pyrometer
• resistance pyrometers
• resistances
• resistance thermometer
• resistance thermometers
• resistance thermometry
• resistance welding
• resistant
• resistants
• resisted
• resistent
• resister
• resisters