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collect

English

Etymology 1

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??l?kt/
  • Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

collect (third-person singular simple present collects, present participle collecting, simple past and past participle collected)

  1. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
  2. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
  3. (transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
  4. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
    • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XVII, section 20
      [] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, page 292-3:
      the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
  5. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
  6. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
  7. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
    • Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
  8. (transitive, of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
    The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.

Synonyms

  • (to gather together): aggregate, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
  • (to get from someone): receive, secure; see also Thesaurus:receive
  • (to accumulate items for a hobby): amound, gather; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
  • (to infer, conclude, form a conclusion): assume, construe
  • (to collect payments):
  • (to come together in a group or mass): group, mass, merge; see also Thesaurus:assemble or Thesaurus:coalesce
  • (to collide with): bump into, plough into, run into
Hyponyms
  • garbage collect
Translations

Adjective

collect (not comparable)

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

Adverb

collect (not comparable)

  1. With payment due from the recipient.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin ?r?ti? ad collectam (prayer towards the congregation).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?k?l?kt/, /?k?l?kt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?l?kt/

Noun

collect (plural collects) (sometimes capitalized)

  1. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
Translations

Further reading

  • collect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • collect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • collect at OneLook Dictionary Search

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appeal

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??pi?l/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /??pil/
  • Rhymes: -i?l
  • Hyphenation: ap?peal

Etymology 1

From Middle English apel, appel (formal accusation brought in court; a challenge to trial by combat; an appeal to a higher court or authority; plea (for mercy, protection, etc.); pealing (of bells)) [and other forms], from Old French apel (a call) (modern French appel (a call; an appeal)), from apeler (to call; to call out), from Latin appell?re, adpell?re, respectively the present active infinitives of appell? (to address as, call by name; to drive, move to; to land or put ashore) and adpell? (to drive, move to; to land or put ashore), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?éd (at; to)) + pell? (to drive, impel, push; to hurl, propel; to banish, expel; to eject, thrust out) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (to approach), from *pel- (to beat; to drive; to push)).

Noun

appeal (countable and uncountable, plural appeals)

  1. (law)
    1. An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
    2. The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
    3. A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
    4. (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
    5. (historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
    6. (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
  2. A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
    1. (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
  3. (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
  4. (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
  5. (rhetoric) A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
  6. (historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
Alternative forms
  • appeale (obsolete, 16th–17th c.)
  • appeall (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • appellant
  • appellate
  • appellee
  • appellor
Translations
See also
  • approvement

Etymology 2

From Middle English apelen, appelen (to accuse; to make a formal charge before a court, etc., impeach; to challenge to trial by combat; to apply to a higher court or authority for review of a decision; to call upon for a decision, favour, help, etc.; to call by a name) [and other forms], from Old French apeler (to call; to call out); see further at etymology 1.

Verb

appeal (third-person singular simple present appeals, present participle appealing, simple past and past participle appealed)

  1. (law)
    1. (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
    2. (transitive, originally US) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
    3. (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
    4. (transitive, historical) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
    5. (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
  2. (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
    1. (intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
  3. (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
  5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
  6. (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations

References

Further reading

  • appeal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • appeal (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • appeal at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • appeal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English appeal.

Noun

appeal

  1. appeal (power to attract or interest)
  2. sex appeal

Anagrams

  • papale

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