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Collect
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- 1 To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment. not-comparable
"It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay."
- 1 payable by the recipient on delivery wordnet
- 1 With payment due from the recipient. not-comparable
"I had to call collect."
- 1 make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays wordnet
- 1 The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer. capitalized, sometimes
"He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon."
- 2 a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England wordnet
- 1 To gather together; amass. transitive
"Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out."
- 2 assemble or get together wordnet
- 3 To get; particularly, get from someone. transitive
"A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house."
- 4 get or bring together wordnet
- 5 To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. transitive
"John Henry collects stamps."
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- 6 call for and obtain payment of wordnet
- 7 To pick up or fetch transitive
"Can you collect me from the airport?"
- 8 get or gather together wordnet
- 9 To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.) archaic, transitive
"[…] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected."
- 10 gather or collect wordnet
- 11 To collect payments. intransitive
"He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made."
- 12 To come together in a group or mass. intransitive
"The rain collected in puddles."
- 13 To infer; to conclude. transitive
"Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons."
- 14 To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle). transitive
"The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction."
Etymology
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”).
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”).
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”).
From Middle English collecte, from Ecclesiastical Latin collēcta (“assembly; collect”), originally designating the gathering at the beginning of a liturgical celebration.
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