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col⋅lect

1  [kuh-lekt]
Use Collecting in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
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.
–verb (used without object)
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.
–adjective, adverb
13. requiring payment by the recipient: a collect telephone call; a telegram sent collect.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L collēctus (ptp. of colligere to collect), equiv. to col- col- 1 + leg- (s. of legere to gather) + -tus ptp. suffix

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

Antonyms:
1. broadcast. 2. distribute.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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col·lect 1   (kə-lěkt')   
v.   col·lect·ed, col·lect·ing, col·lects

v.   tr.

  1. To bring together in a group or mass; gather.

  2. To accumulate as a hobby or for study.

  3. To call for and obtain payment of: collect taxes.

  4. To recover control of: collect one's emotions.

  5. To call for (someone); pick up: collected the children and drove home.

v.   intr.

  1. To come together in a group or mass; gather. See Synonyms at gather.

  2. To take in payments or donations: collecting for charity.

adv.   & adj.
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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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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. Collection "group of things gathered together" is from 1460; as "money gathered for charitable or religious purposes" it is attested from 1535. As an adj. meaning "paid by the recipient" it is attested from 1893, originally with ref. to telegrams.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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