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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.
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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.
EXPANDto call for and take with one: He drove off to collect his guests. They collected their mail.
verb (used without object)
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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 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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is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
adjective, adverb
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requiring payment by the recipient: a collect telephone call; a telegram sent collect.
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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)
1150–1200; Middle English collecte < Medieval Latin, short for ōrātiō ad collēctam prayer at collection (see collect1)
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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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