collect
[kə'lɛkt]
vt. 集, 聚集, 集, 搜集

vi. 集, 聚集, 集, 搜集

a. 者付款

ad. 者付款

[] 帐(税租), 帐

1. This department collects information on political extremists.
   门搜集政治端情。
2. We are collecting money for the famine victim.
   遭受饥荒募捐。
3. I tried to collect my thoughts but I was too excited.
   试图使想集起，但激动。

collect
[ noun ]

1. a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

<noun.communication>

[ verb ]

1. get or gather together

<verb.possession> accumulate amass compile hoard pile up roll up
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

2. call for and obtain payment of

<verb.possession> take in
we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts
he collected the rent

3. assemble or get together

<verb.contact> garner gather pull together
gather some stones
pull your thoughts together

4. get or bring together

<verb.contact> pull in
accumulate evidence

5. gather or collect

<verb.possession> call for gather up pick up
You can get the results on Monday
She picked up the children at the day care center
They pick up our trash twice a week

[ adv ]

1. make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays

<adv.all>
call collect
send a package collect

[ adj ]

1. payable by the recipient on delivery

<adj.all>
a collect call
the letter came collect
a COD parcel

Collect \Col*lect"\, v. i.
1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd;
to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic]

Whence some collect that the former word imports a
plurality of persons. --South.


Collect \Col"lect\, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a
collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F.
collecte. See {Collect}, v. t.]
A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day,
occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly
a collect in verse. --Macaulay.
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Collect \Col*lect"\ (k[o^]l*l[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Collected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Collecting}.] [L. collecrus, p.
p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather:
cf. OF. collecter. See {Legend}, and cf. {Coil}, v. t.,
{Cull}, v. t.]
1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring
together; to obtain by gathering.

A band of men
Collected choicely from each country. --Shak.

'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by
preserving what our labor and industry daily
collect. --Watts.

2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other
indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
[Archaic.] --Shak.

Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
--Locke.

{To collect one's self}, to recover from surprise,
embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.

Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate;
garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.