Collect
WordNet
adjective
(1) Payable by the recipient on delivery
"A collect call"
"The letter came collect"
"A COD parcel"
adverb
(2) Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays
"Call collect"
"Send a package collect"
noun
(3) A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
verb
(4) Assemble or get together
"Gather some stones"
"Pull your thoughts together"
(5) Get or bring together
"Accumulate evidence"
(6) Call for and obtain payment of
"We collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"
"He collected the rent"
(7) 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"
(8) Gather or collect
"You can get the results on Monday"
"She picked up the children at the day care center"
"They pick up our trash twice a week"
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Etymology
From French collecte
(verb) From < < , prop. fem. of , pp. of , < + .
Noun
(sometimes capitalized)
- The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
- He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
Verb
- To gather together; amass items.
- Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
- To get; particularly, get from someone.
- A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan.
- A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
- To accumulate similar items or items belonging to a particular theme, particularly for a hobby or recreation.
- John Henry collects stamps.
Related terms
- call collect
- collect one's thoughts
- collect one's wits
- collectible