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collect¹
- /kəˈlɛkt/
Rhymes with -ɛkt
Where it comes from
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”).
verb collects · collecting · collected · collect
- To gather together; amass. Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
- To get; particularly, get from someone. A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
- To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. John Henry collects stamps.
- To pick up or fetch Can you collect me from the airport?
- To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.) […] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
- To collect payments. He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
- To come together in a group or mass. The rain collected in puddles.
- To infer; to conclude. Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
- To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle). The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
adjective
- To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment. It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
adverb
- With payment due from the recipient. I had to call collect.
collect²
- /ˈkɑlɪkt/ US
- /ˈkɑlɛkt/ US
- /ˈkɒlɪkt/ UK
- /ˈkɒlɛkt/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English collecte, from Ecclesiastical Latin collēcta (“assembly; collect”), originally designating the gathering at the beginning of a liturgical celebration.
noun collects
- The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer. He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
