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 pick up or fetch
- 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).
adj
- To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
adv
- 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.
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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”).
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