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Collect

[kuh-lekt]

verb (used with object)

to gather together; assemble: The professor collected the students' exams.

to accumulate; make a collection of: to collect stamps.

to receive or compel payment of: to collect a bill.

to regain control of (oneself or one's thoughts, faculties, composure, or the like): At the news of her promotion, she took a few minutes to collect herself.

to call for and take with one: He drove off to collect his guests. They collected their mail.

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Manège. to bring (a horse) into a collected attitude.

Archaic. to infer.

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verb (used without object)

to gather together; assemble: The students collected in the assembly hall.

to accumulate: Rain water collected in the barrel.

10.

to receive payment (often followed by on): He collected on the damage to his house.

11.

to gather or bring together books, stamps, coins, etc., usually as a hobby: He's been collecting for years.

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Manège. (of a horse) to come into a collected attitude.

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adjective, adverb

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requiring payment by the recipient: a collect telephone call; a telegram sent collect.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin collēctus (past participle of colligere to collect), equivalent to col- col-¹ + leg- (stem of legere to gather) + -tus past participle suffix

Synonyms
1. See gather. 1, 2. amass, aggregate. 4. compose, calm.

Antonyms
1. broadcast. 2. distribute.

Example Sentences

Amazon's skirmishes with states over whether it should collect sales taxes have been an ongoing battle.

Colleges collect more information about potential students than ever before, but.

At issue is whether states can force out-of-state merchants to collect sales tax on purchases by in-state residents.

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Amazon's skirmishes with states over whether it should collect sales taxes have been an ongoing battle.

Colleges collect more information about potential students than ever before, but.

At issue is whether states can force out-of-state merchants to collect sales tax on purchases by in-state residents.

With the help of volunteers around the country, they hope to collect information about where and when.

The new probe will collect data for short-term weather forecasting and long-term climate monitoring.

The alder leaf is full of holes caused by a marauding insect and is not the sort you would collect and.

Roofs collect a lot of nitrogen from contaminants in the air.

Some cables instruct them to collect information on how other countries are using biometrics to keep tabs on local extremists.

Principals in city schools have been told to collect the money parents owe or identify a budget line the money can be taken from.

And states should collect better statistics on those measures, he said.

Anybody could run wires to a few hundred houses, beam programmes and collect money.

But a group of the traditional snake rustlers has formed a cooperative to collect venom and protect their way of life.

He's old enough to collect social security, yet he appears stronger and more hip than ever.

The collectors represent different generations and show how the impulse to collect continues today among a younger.

However, some of the steam will collect near the surface of the meringue.

NebuAd does not collect or use any personally identifiable information.

We've been losing a lot of revenues because of our inability to collect that tax.

They infiltrate online courses and secretly collect information about students by blending in with them.

Such intense lasers are better suited to power-beaming because the cells that collect the light they deliver can be smaller.

The data the tags collect will help create a sort of.

Earth has its fair share of orbiting paparazzi-numerous satellites continually collect information about the planet.

Or maybe they need enhanced intelligence to extract food embedded in a tough shell or to collect termites hiding in a mound.

Collect eggs for an omelet from the chicken coop, and ride one of the ranch's.

As players run, they collect items that are vital for the survival of their community.

Finally, it also shows you what you can collect if you keep working.

Then it confirms the time they selected and asks them for any additional information you want to collect.

Conventional photovoltaic cells, made of silicon, are designed to collect energy from sunlight.

Encourage kids to collect scraps from other projects.

But the device required constant visual monitoring to collect data, so it wasn't really suitable for serious science.

The only way to collect the sticks was to cut up the bodies of dead oxen and leave them on the ground near the birds' nests.

Use a videoscope to collect and transfer pollen from a flower's anther to its stigma, or glimpse living algae through a.

It started out as a program to collect and represent data on crime scenes.

But the right to collect important information, and to protect the sources who provide it, is also vital.

In a continuing effort to crack down on unscrupulous colleges that collect federal student-aid dollars but provide little useful.

Then news leaked that army special forces were helping to collect intelligence to build a better profile of dissidents.

The recycling industry bases its supply on communities and businesses that collect recyclable.

They had developed a system using parabolic mirrors to collect sunlight and channel it along plastic fiber-optic cable.

The first mission to collect space matter from beyond the moon offers insights into the solar system's creation.

Or trap by allowing them to collect on the underside of a slightly elevated board.

The devices collect measurements that help shoppers find.

Phone customers and start trying to collect the day after a payment is due.

We also will collect data on high frequency errors for each school.

So scientists collect what they can and let the rest dissipate into the ether.

Aluminum cans are easy to collect and recycle, but many people throw them out anyway.

Creeping at a snail's pace, the mobile robot will collect data on soil and rocks.

The tires collect rainwater, the perfect location for a female mosquito to lay her eggs.

Collect a bit of discarded nature from your own backyard and display it on your wall.

For about four weeks a year, she lives in the mountains and chases birds all over the place, trying to collect data.

They can then collect both their pension and a salary.

Matt gets lowered into a croc nest and is able to collect some freshly laid eggs.

The meteorological towers would collect data on wind speed, intensity and direction.

After the corals spawn, kayakers collect the samples and bring them to shore.

Students collect some data and it is clear they need to make a graph.

When the government is unable to collect on those loans, taxpayers are on the hook for the losses.

The best collect multi-million-dollar pay cheques and earn many millions more for their employers.

In this lesson students will collect information about countries, then enter that information on a chart.

Collect trash, burn it, and then generate electricity.

But you are stealing my last comments that they would collect to do one thing thoughtfull.

Instead, the students collect evidence that shows the model is plausible.

We went to his old daycare long enough to collect his personal belongings.

They pay all subsequent premiums and collect the proceeds on the death of the insured or the maturity of the policy.

Scientists use data displays to examine and describe the data they collect.

Whether on private or public land, collect only if you have permission to do so from the authority responsible for the property.

Now a half a century later, there is a need to collect these personal histories before these voices are lost.

Tomorrow the check is whether they can collect workman's comp.

These allow them to collect clean needles and ditch their old ones with no questions asked.

Take a walk to collect items from nature to use in a collage.

Having many members of the family in one place is a rare opportunity to collect medical history data.

Collect sunlight and extract useful forms of energy from it, rather than expending energy on air conditioning.

Wyden introduced a bill that would require warrants for law enforcement to collect geodata.

Debate has raged over whether a claimant must actually be proved innocent in order to collect.

Collect and categorize things, and use them to practice counting.

In humans the ability to collect fresh oocytes also remains a huge.

He had worked long and hard to collect all the necessary data to support his.

SoundExchange will then collect a fee from the site.

Little wonder that the government is trying harder to collect the money.

Women and female children who have to travel to collect water pay a high cost.

However you submit your ladybug spottings, it is a wonderful way to help scientists collect data.

Love the concrete examples of innovation you're starting to collect.

The better you dance, the more money you'll collect from your patrons.

In the old days the pickers migrated, but these days they stay and collect unemployment benefits during the summer months.

The wreck's salvagers say such decline makes it urgent to collect artifacts before they disappear.

One of the big problems with computer models comes when you can't collect accurate data from a particular area.

And the decentralization that prevents shutdowns also means there's no place to build user relationships or collect revenue.

BP is trying to drop huge domes over the leaks and siphon off the oil they collect.

Collect and record information at the same time every day, perhaps when you get home from school.

The floating platform allows the researchers to collect data using the canister at various points all along the river.

Researchers say the material would be useful in solar panels or to collect heat in the frigid vacuum of space.

The delicate flowers attract pollinators, mostly honeybees, to visit and collect nectar and pollen.

Bumblebee queens collect nectar and pollen to make food called beebread, which feed the larvae hatch.

Playa lakes are depressional wetlands that collect water runoff during rainfall events.

Celebrities who attend posh soirees organized to collect saliva for genetic sequencing.

New technology makes it easier to collect taxes but it does not make them any more welcome.

Find stores that collect old sneakers-of all brands-for recycling.

These chemicals then collect in rapidly proliferating.

These tend to collect at the locations of tumours because the blood vessels which serve tumours often have unusual pores in them.

We collect jewel scarabs-to estimate their population sizes and study their ecology and distribution.

The turbines can be placed right on the top of the ocean and collect power the current and tides create.

To avoid tricky judgments, number-crunchers collect the prices only of unbundled goods.

Collect about three times as much as you think you'll need.

State wildlife officials said they have collected live fish and will collect more in the coming months to monitor the situation.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

any of certain brief prayers used in Western churches especially before the epistle in the communion service.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English collecte < Medieval Latin, short for ōrātiō ad collēctam prayer at collection (see collect¹)

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World English Dictionary

collect¹ (kəˈlɛkt)

—vb (sometimes foll by on)
1.	to gather together or be gathered together
2.	to accumulate (stamps, books, etc) as a hobby or for study
3.	(tr) to call for or receive payment of (taxes, dues, etc)
4.	(tr) to regain control of (oneself, one's emotions, etc) as after a shock or surprise: he collected his wits
5.	(tr) to fetch; pick up: collect your own post; he collected the children after school
6.	slang to receive large sums of money, as from an investment: he really collected when the will was read
7.	informal (Austral), (NZ) (tr) to collide with; be hit by
8.	collect on delivery the US term for cash on delivery

—*adv, —adj*
9.	(US) (of telephone calls) on a reverse-charge basis

—n
10.	informal (Austral) a winning bet

[C16: from Latin collēctus collected, from colligere to gather together, from com- together + legere to gather]

collect² (ˈkɒlɛkt)

—n
	Christianity a short Church prayer generally preceding the lesson or epistle in Communion and other services

[C13: from Medieval Latin collecta (from the phrase ōrātiō ad collēctam prayer at the (people's) assembly), from Latin colligere to collect¹]

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Word Origin & History

collect

1573 (trans.), from O.Fr. collecter (1371), from L. collectus, pp. of colligere "gather together," from com- "together" + legere "to gather." The intrans. sense is attested from 1794. As an adj. meaning "paid by the recipient" it is attested from 1893, originally with ref. to telegrams.

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