collect

Meanings

Verb

• To gather together; amass.
• To get; particularly, get from someone.
• To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
• To collect payments.
• To come together in a group or mass.
• To infer; to conclude.
• To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

Adjective

• To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

Adverb

• With payment due from the recipient.

Noun

• The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

Related

Similar words

• assume, construe
• bump into, plough into, run into

Narrower meaning words

• garbage collect

Origin

• 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 {{der") a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer}}, feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere, from com- + legere.
• From Latin ōrātiō ad collectam.