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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)
- (transitive) To gather together; amass.
- (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
- (transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
- (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.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XVII, section 20
- (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
- (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
- (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
- (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)
- To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
Translations
Adverb
collect (not comparable)
- 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)
- (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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collectable
English
Alternative forms
- collectible (American English)
Etymology
collect +? -able
Adjective
collectable (not comparable)
- Suitable for collecting.
Noun
collectable (plural collectables)
- Anything that someone might want to collect.
- 2006, Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman, The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology (page 551)
- The mindset of making collectables runs against that of making games—if you succeed in the collectable department then there is a tendency to keep new players out and to drive old ones away because of escalating prices.
- 2006, Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman, The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology (page 551)
Synonyms
- collector's item
Translations
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