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Collect   /kəlˈɛkt/   Listen
Collect

verb
(past & past part. collected; pres. part. collecting)
1.
Get or gather together.  Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up.  "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis" , "She rolled up a small fortune"
2.
Call for and obtain payment of.  Synonym: take in.  "He collected the rent"
3.
Assemble or get together.  Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together.  "Pull your thoughts together"
4.
Get or bring together.  Synonym: pull in.
5.
Gather or collect.  Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up.  "She picked up the children at the day care center" , "They pick up our trash twice a week"
noun
1.
A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England.
adjective
1.
Payable by the recipient on delivery.  Synonym: cod.  "The letter came collect" , "A COD parcel"
adverb
1.
Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays.  "Send a package collect"



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"Collect" Quotes from Famous Books



... place the person attacked in a cool, airy place. Do not allow a crowd to collect closely about him. Remove his clothing, and lay him flat upon his back. Dash him all over with cold water—ice-water, if it can be obtained—and rub the entire body with pieces of ice. This treatment is used to reduce the heat of the body, for in all cases of sunstroke the temperature ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks
... gate, where the station-master's son stood at the receipt of custom to collect the tickets. His uncle was to arrive by this train, and if he did so arrive, must of necessity pass this way before leaving the platform. The train panted in, pulled up, whistled, and puffed out again, leaving ...
— A Prefect's Uncle • P. G. Wodehouse
... tickets to a hundred unmarried suburban girls, to which class Christina's Mistake might be supposed to make a special religious appeal. But they had to collect coupons ...
— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne
... "John," said he to the count through an interpreter, "I know that thou art a great lord in thy country, and the son of a great lord. Thou art young. It may be that thou art abashed and grieved at what hath befallen thee in thy first essay of knighthood, and that, to retrieve thine honor, thou wilt collect a powerful army against me. I might, ere I release thee, bind thee by oath not to take arms against me, neither thyself nor thy people. But no; I will not exact this oath either from them or from thee. When ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume III. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... in search of relief to their over-wrought feelings—probably also of beer, the undergraduate's universal specific. The beadles close those ruthless doors for a mysterious half-hour on the examiners. Outside in the quadrangle collect by twos and threes the friends of the victims, waiting for the reopening of the door, and the distribution of the "testamurs." The testamurs, lady readers will be pleased to understand, are certificates under ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes


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