collect
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[edit] Etymology 1
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”).
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collect (third-person singular simple present collects, present participle collecting, simple past and past participle collected)
- To gather together; amass items.
- 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 similar items or items belonging to a particular theme, particularly for a hobby or recreation.
- John Henry collects stamps.
- (now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 292-3:
- the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 292-3:
[edit] Translations
to gather together
to get from someone
to accumulate items for a hobby
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[edit] Etymology 2
French collecte
[edit] 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.
- He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
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prayer said before reading of the epistle lesson
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Terms related to the noun or verb "collect"
[edit] External links
- collect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- collect in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- collect at OneLook Dictionary Search
