Collect Meaning and Definition

Word: Collect

How to pronounce: kəˈlekt

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Bring or gather together (things, typically when scattered or widespread)

Example sentences: "He went around the office collecting old coffee cups"

2. Call for and take away; fetch.

Example sentences: "The children were collected from school"

3. Regain control of oneself, typically after a shock.

Example sentences: "He paused for a moment to take a breath, to collect himself"

4. Conclude; infer.

5. Cause (a horse) to bring its hind legs further forward as it moves, thereby shortening the stride and increasing balance and impulsion.

Example sentences: "A rider should want to be able to collect a horse when hacking"

Adjective

Definitions:

1. (of a phone call) paid for by the person receiving it.

Example sentences: "A collect call"

Adverb

Definitions:

1. (with reference to making a phone call) in a way that is paid for by the person receiving it.

Noun

Definitions:

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

Example sentences: "However, a new type of short full anthem, often a setting of one of the seasonal collects, gained in popularity after about 1800."

Synonyms:

glean

raise

pick up

pick

take away

amass

accumulate

accrue

gather

gather together

assemble

compile

collate

be about

intend

concentrate

muster up

forgather

compose

piece together

hoard

corral

take

capture

encash

get

receive

recover

meet

obtain

pull together

contain

settle

converge

pile

stack

convene

summon

garner

Antonyms:

spend

consume

eat

disassemble

Derivations:

collected

collectable

collectible

collective

collecting

collection

collector

collectively

collectedly

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Collect in Other Languages...

Spanish: Recoger

German: Sammeln

French: Recueillir

Italian: Raccogliere

Turkish: Toplanmak