collect

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /kəˈlɛkt/ Rhymes: -ɛkt ==== Verb ==== collect (third-person singular simple present collects, present participle collecting, simple past and past participle collected) (transitive) To gather together; amass. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone. (transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. (transitive) To pick up or fetch [someone, in a vehicle] (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.) (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass. (transitive) To infer; to conclude. (transitive, of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle). ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Synonyms ===== (to gather together): aggregate, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up (to get from someone): receive, secure; see also Thesaurus:receive (to accumulate items for a hobby): amound, gather; see also Thesaurus:accumulate (to infer, conclude, form a conclusion): assume, construe (to collect payments): (to come together in a group or mass): group, mass, merge; see also Thesaurus:assemble or Thesaurus:coalesce (to collide with): bump into, plough into, run into ===== Hyponyms ===== garbage collect ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== collect (not comparable) To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment. ===== Translations ===== ==== Adverb ==== collect (not comparable) With payment due from the recipient. ==== Derived terms ==== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English collecte, from Ecclesiastical Latin collēcta (“assembly; collect”), originally designating the gathering at the beginning of a liturgical celebration. ==== Pronunciation ==== (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑlɪkt/, /ˈkɑlɛkt/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒlɪkt/, /ˈkɒlɛkt/ ==== Noun ==== collect (plural collects) (sometimes capitalized) (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer. ===== Translations ===== === Further reading === “collect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “collect”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “collect”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.