'Collect' definitions:
Definition of 'collect'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
adjective
Payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn: collect, cod]
noun
A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
verb
Get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard]
verb
Call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" [syn: collect, take in]
verb
Assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [syn: gather, garner, collect, pull together] [ant: distribute, spread]
verb
Get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" [syn: collect, pull in]
verb
Definition of 'Collect'
From: GCIDE
- Collect \Col"lect\, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See Collect, v. t.] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. [1913 Webster]
- The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Collect'
From: GCIDE
- Collect \Col*lect"\ (k[o^]l*l[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collected; p. pr. & vb. n. Collecting.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and cf. Coil, v. t., Cull, v. t.]
- 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. [1913 Webster]
- A band of men Collected choicely from each country. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. --Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- To collect one's self, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.
- Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Collect'
From: GCIDE
- Collect \Col*lect"\, v. i.
- 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'collect'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accouple,
- accumulate,
- agglomerate,
- agglutinate,
- aggregate,
- aggroup,
- aid prayer,
- align,
- amass,
- Angelus,
- appeal,
- array,
- articulate,
- assemble,
- associate,
- Ave,
- Ave Maria,
- backlog,
- band,
- batch,
- beadroll,
- beads,
- beseechment,
- bidding prayer,
- bond,
- bracket,
- breviary,
- bridge,
- bridge over,
- bring,
- bring together,
- bulk,
- bunch,
- bunch together,
- bunch up,
- cement,
- chain,
- chaplet,
- clap together,
- clot,
- clump,
- cluster,
- colligate,
- collocate,
- combine,
- come,
- come together,
- communion,
- compare,
- compile,
- comprise,
- concatenate,
- concentrate,
- conclude,
- conglobulate,
- conglomerate,
- congregate,
- congress,
- conjoin,
- conjugate,
- connect,
- contemplation,
- control,
- convene,
- converge,
- cool,
- copulate,
- corral,
- couple,
- cover,
- crowd,
- cull,
- cumulate,
- date,
- deduce,
- deduct,
- derive,
- devotions,
- dig up,
- dispose,
- draw,
- draw a conclusion,
- draw an inference,
- draw together,
- draw up,
- dredge up,
- drive together,
- embrace,
- encompass,
- entreaty,
- extract,
- fetch,
- find,
- flock together,
- flow together,
- forgather,
- fuse,
- gang around,
- gang up,
- garner,
- garner up,
- gather,
- gather around,
- gather in,
- gather into barns,
- gather together,
- gather up,
- get,
- get in,
- get together,
- glean,
- glue,
- grace,
- group,
- grub,
- grub up,
- Hail Mary,
- heap up,
- herd together,
- hide,
- hive,
- hoard,
- hoard up,
- hold,
- horde,
- huddle,
- impetration,
- imploration,
- include,
- induce,
- infer,
- intercession,
- invocation,
- join,
- judge,
- juxtapose,
- keep,
- knot,
- Kyrie Eleison,
- lay together,
- lay up,
- league,
- link,
- litany,
- lump together,
- make,
- make out,
- make up,
- marry,
- marshal,
- mass,
- match,
- meditation,
- meet,
- merge,
- mill,
- mobilize,
- muster,
- obsecration,
- obtestation,
- order,
- orison,
- pair,
- partner,
- Paternoster,
- petition,
- pick,
- pick up,
- piece together,
- pile up,
- pluck,
- prayer,
- prayer wheel,
- put together,
- put up,
- raise,
- rake up,
- rally,
- rally around,
- rank,
- reason,
- reason that,
- rein,
- rendezvous,
- repress,
- restrain,
- rogation,
- roll into one,
- rosary,
- round up,
- save,
- save up,
- scare up,
- scrape together,
- scrape up,
- secrete,
- seethe,
- silent prayer,
- simmer down,
- smother,
- solder,
- span,
- splice,
- squirrel,
- squirrel away,
- stick together,
- stock up,
- stockpile,
- store up,
- stream,
- suit,
- summon up,
- supplication,
- suppress,
- surge,
- swarm,
- take as proved,
- take in,
- take up,
- tape,
- thanks,
- thanksgiving,
- throng,
- tie,
- together,
- treasure,
- treasure up,
- unify,
- unite,
- weld,
- whip in,
- yoke
Words containing 'Collect'
- Collected,
- Collectedly,
- Collectible,
- Collecting,
- Collection,
- Collectional,
- Collective,
- Collectively,
- Collectiveness,
- Collectivity,
- collectable,
- Collective fruit,
- art collection,
- bottle collection,
- coin collecting,
- coin collection,
- collect call,
- collect on delivery,
- collection agent,
- collection basket,
- collection plate,
- collective agreement,
- collective bargaining,
- collective farm,
- collective noun,
- collective security,
- garbage collection,
- loan collection,
- map collection,
- motley collection,
- rental collection,
- shell collecting,
- stamp collecting,
- stamp collection,
- tax collection,
- trash collection,
- Re-collect,
- To collect one's self,
- self-collected