[kuh-lekt] 
| 1. | to gather together; assemble: The professor collected the students' exams. |
| 2. | to accumulate; make a collection of: to collect stamps. |
| 3. | to receive or compel payment of: to collect a bill. |
| 4. | 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. |
| 5. | to call for and take with one: He drove off to collect his guests. They collected their mail. |
| 6. | Manège. to bring (a horse) into a collected attitude. |
| 7. | Archaic. to infer. |
| 8. | to gather together; assemble: The students collected in the assembly hall. |
| 9. | to accumulate: Rain water collected in the barrel. |
| 10. | to receive payment (often fol. 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. |
| 12. | Manège. (of a horse) to come into a collected attitude. |
| 13. | requiring payment by the recipient: a collect telephone call; a telegram sent collect. |
[kol-ekt] | any of certain brief prayers used in Western churches esp. before the epistle in the communion service. |
| col·lect 1 (kə-lěkt') v. col·lect·ed, col·lect·ing, col·lects v. tr.
With payment to be made by the receiver: called collect; a collect phone call. [Middle English collecten, from Latin colligere, collēct- : com-, com- + legere, to gather; see leg- in Indo-European roots.] |
| col·lect 2 (kŏl'ĭkt, -ěkt') n. Ecclesiastical A brief formal prayer that is used in various Western liturgies before the epistle and that varies with the day. [Middle English collecte, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collēcta, short for (ōrātiō ad) collēctam, (prayer at the) gathering, from Latin collēctus, gathered, past participle of colligere, to gather; see collect1.] |