collect

Plural: collects

Noun

• a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
• The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

Verb

Verb Forms: collected, collecting, collects

• To gather or bring together, as into a group or pile.
• get or gather together
• call for and obtain payment of
  • "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"
  • "he collected the rent"
• assemble or get together
• get or bring together
• gather or collect
• To gather together; amass.
• To get; particularly, get from someone.
• To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• To pick up or fetch
• To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
• To collect payments.
• To come together in a group or mass.
• To infer; to conclude.
• To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

Adjective Satellite

• payable by the recipient on delivery
  • "a collect call"
  • "the letter came collect"

Adverb

• make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays
  • "call collect"
  • "send a package collect"

Adj

• To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

Adv

• With payment due from the recipient.

Examples

• A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
• Can you collect me from the airport?
• He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
• He tried to COLLECT high-scoring letters, but kept drawing vowels in Words With Friends.
• He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
• I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
• I had to call collect.
• It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
• John Henry collects stamps.
• My friend from school has started to collects mangas and novels recently
• Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
• The rain collected in puddles.
• The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
• The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.

Synonyms

accumulate, amass, call for, cod, compile, garner, gather, gather up, hoard, pick up, pile up, pull in, pull together, roll up, take in, aggregate, amound, assemble, assume, bump into, coalesce, construe, group, mass, merge, plough into, receive, round up, run into, secure

Antonyms

spread

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