collect
To gather together; amass.
Verb 4 meanings
To gather together; amass.
“Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.”
To get; particularly, get from someone.
“A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.”
To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
“John Henry collects stamps.”
To pick up or fetch
“Can you collect me from the airport?”
Adjective 1 meaning
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
“It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.”
Adverb 1 meaning
With payment due from the recipient.
“I had to call collect.”
Noun 1 meaning
The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
“He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.”
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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COLLECT at a glance
COLLECT has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + L 1 + L 1 + E 1 + C 3 + T 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,729 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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