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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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construct
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin constructus, from construo (“I heap together, build, make, construct, connect grammatically”), from com- (“together”) + struo (“I heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.
Pronunciation
Noun
- (UK) enPR: k?n'str?kt, IPA(key): /?k?n.st??kt/
- (US) enPR: kän'str?kt, IPA(key): /?k?n.st??kt/
Verb
- (UK, US) enPR: k?n-str?kt', IPA(key): /k?n?st??kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
construct (plural constructs)
- Something constructed from parts.
- A concept or model.
- (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.
Synonyms
- (something constructed from parts): construction
- (concept, model): concept, idea, model, notion, representation
Related terms
Translations
Verb
construct (third-person singular simple present constructs, present participle constructing, simple past and past participle constructed)
- (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
- 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories
- The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.
- 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories
- (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
Synonyms
- (build or form by assembling parts'): assemble, build, form, make, produce, put together
- (build (a sentence or argument)): form
- (draw (a geometric figure)):
Antonyms
- (build or form by assembling parts): destroy, disassemble, dismantle, ruin, wreck, take apart
Derived terms
- deconstruct
- overconstruct
- reconstruct
- unconstruct
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- construct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- construct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- construct at OneLook Dictionary Search
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- what construction type is my house
- what constructs social class
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