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col⋅lect
1
[kuh-lekt] 
–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. |
col⋅lect
2 [kol-ekt] –noun
| any of certain brief prayers used in Western churches esp. before the epistle in the communion service. |
Origin:
1150–1200; ME collecte < ML, short for ōrātiō ad collēctam prayer at collection (see collect 1 )
1150–1200; ME collecte < ML, short for ōrātiō ad collēctam prayer at collection (see collect 1 )
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| 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.] |
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Collect
Col*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collected; p. pr. & vb. n. Collecting.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and cf. Coil, v. t., Cull, v. t.]1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. --Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. --Watts. 2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes. 3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] --Shak. Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. --Locke. To collect one's self, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control. Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.Collect
Col*lect"\, v. i. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks. 2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. --South.Collect
Col"lect\, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See Collect, v. t.] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. --Macaulay.
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Language Translation for : collect
Spanish:
reunir, recopilar,
German:
sammeln,
Japanese:
集める
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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