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Verb
/kəˈlekt/,
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collects, 3rd person singular present; collecting, present participle; collected, past tense; collected, past participle;
  1. Bring or gather together (things, typically when scattered or widespread)
    • - he went around the office collecting old coffee cups
    • - he collected up all his clothing
  2. Accumulate and store over a period of time
    • - collect rainwater to use on the garden
  3. Systematically seek and acquire (items of a particular kind) as a hobby
    • - I've started collecting stamps
    • - the urge to collect, to have the full set, is in us all
  4. Come together and form a group or mass
    • - worshipers collected together in a stadium
    • - dust and dirt collect so quickly
  5. Call for and take away; fetch
    • - the children were collected from school
  6. Go somewhere and accept or receive (something), esp. as a right or due
    • - she went to Oxford to collect her honorary degree
  7. Solicit and receive (donations), esp. for charity
    • - collecting money for the war effort
    • - we collected for the United Way
  8. Receive (money that is due); be paid
    • - they called to collect a debt
    • - he'd come to collect
  9. Regain control of oneself, typically after a shock

  10. Bring together and concentrate (one's thoughts)

  11. Conclude; infer
    • - by all best conjectures, I collect Thou art to be my fatal enemy
  12. Cause (a horse) to bring its hind legs further forward as it moves, thereby shortening the stride and increasing balance and impulsion

Noun
  1. (in church use) A short prayer, esp. one assigned to a particular day or season

Adverb
  1. (with reference to a telephone call) To be paid for by the person receiving it
    • - I called my mother collect
    • - a collect call
  1. a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
  2. make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
  3. payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
  4. roll up: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
  5. call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
  6. gather: assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
  7. In Christian liturgy, a collect is both a liturgical action and a short, general prayer. In the Middle Ages, the prayer was referred to in Latin as collectio, but in the more ancient sources, as oratio. ...
  8. Collected is a "best of" album by British trip-hop collective Massive Attack, released on 27 March 2006. The album was preceded by the release of the single "Live With Me" on 13 March.
  9. (Collected (album)) Collected is a compilation album by Canadian rapper k-os. The album contains recent tracks from the first three albums, the hit singles, and remixes of a couple singles. The album also contains three new tracks. Two of which were leftovers from ''''.
  10. (Collected (Black 'n Blue box set)) Collected is a five disc Black 'N Blue box set, released in 2005, with 4 audio CDs and one DVD.
  11. (Collected (Nine Inch Nails DVD)) Collected (aka Seed 1) is a 2005 promotional DVD, freely distributed in limited supply by Nine Inch Nails. ...
  12. (Collecting) The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector. ...
  13. The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer; To gather together; amass items; To get; particularly, get from someone; To accumulate similar items or items belonging to a particular theme, particularly for a ...
  14. (collected) Cool‐headed, emotionally stable, in focus
  15. (collection) A set of items or objects procured or gathered together by a person, group, or other agent; Multiple related objects associated as a group; The activity of collecting; A set of sets
  16. (collected) If a car is involved in an on track incident or accident it would be said that the car was "collected".
  17. (COLLECTED) First ACH has not received a reject notice and is preparing to send a Funding transaction.
  18. (Collected) A horse that is balanced under the rider so that it can quickly respond to the moves of a cow.
  19. (Collected) Getting hit by an out-of-control car while trying to pass by or through an accident in progress.
  20. (Collected) Remaining on the bit, the horse impels forward with his neck raised and arched. It is important to have the weight on the hind quarters not on the forehand. Strides are shorter, but not choppy.
  21. (Collected) When a horse is balanced and gathered for quick response to where the cow moves.
  22. (Collecting) Authorized to collect freight and charges on behalf of P&O Nedlloyd.
  23. (Collecting) The killing of birds for science. The collected specimens are prepared as "study skins" and permanently preserved in a museum collection as a record of occurrence in a given place and time, plumage characteristics, and diet. ...
  24. (Collecting) The process of recording folklore in some form. In our course students collected stories from informants, usually by tape recording a performance.
  25. (Collecting) suitable bonsai material in its original wild situation, successfully moving it, and replanting it in a container for development as bonsai.