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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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store

English

Etymology

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin instaur?.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA(key): /st??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA(key): /st??/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) enPR: st?r, IPA(key): /sto(?)?/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /sto?/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
  • Homophone: stower (in some accents)

Noun

store (plural stores)

  1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
  2. A supply held in storage.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:
      But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.
    • By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began [] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
  3. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
    • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,
      In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
  4. (computing, dated) Memory.
  5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:
      I make my love engrafted to this store.
    • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
      With store of Ladies, whose bright eies / Rain influence, and judge the prise / Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend / To win her Grace, whom all commend.

Synonyms

  • (supply held in storage): stock, supply
  • (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
  • (in computing): memory

Derived terms

Related terms

  • storage

Descendants

  • Tok Pisin: stua
    • ? Rotokas: sitoa
  • ? Afrikaans: stoor

Translations

Verb

store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)

  1. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
  2. Contain.
    The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
  3. Have the capacity and capability to contain.
    They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
  4. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • store at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Resto, estro-, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Danish

Adjective

store

  1. definite of stor
  2. plural of stor

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

store

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of storen

Anagrams

  • roest, roste, stoer

French

Etymology

Latin storea (mat), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /st??/

Noun

store m (plural stores)

  1. blind, shade (for a window)

Descendants

  • ? Catalan: estor
  • ? Galician: estor
  • ? German: Store
  • ? Portuguese: estore

Further reading

  • “store” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

Anagrams

  • resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Latvian

Noun

store f (5th declension)

  1. sturgeon

Declension


Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare.

Alternative forms

  • stor, stoure, storre, stour, stoor, stoore

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /st??r/

Noun

store (uncountable)

  1. supplies, provisions
  2. livestock, farm animals
  3. (stored) possessions, savings
  4. collection, storage
  5. storehouse, storeroom
  6. value, importance
Descendants
  • English: store
    • Tok Pisin: stua
      • ? Rotokas: sitoa
    • ? Afrikaans: stoor
  • Scots: store
References
  • “st?r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 2

From Old English st?r and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.

Alternative forms

  • stoor, stour, stur, sture, storre, stowre, stoore, stoure

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sto?r/, /stu?r/, /st??r/

Adjective

store

  1. strong, powerful, intense
  2. violent, threatening, imposing
  3. stern, sharp, harsh
  4. numerous, large in number
  5. large, big, great
  6. coarse, rough
Descendants
  • English: stoor, stour (archaic)
  • Scots: stour, stoure, sture, stoor, stoar
References
  • “st??r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Adverb

store

  1. violently, threateningly, imposingly
  2. sternly, sharply, harshly
References
  • “st??re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 3

From Old English st?r; possibly from a Celtic language.

Alternative forms

  • stor, stoure

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sto?r/

Noun

store

  1. incense, frankincense, storax
References
  • “st??r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

store

  1. definite singular of stor
  2. plural of stor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

store

  1. definite singular of stor
  2. plural of stor

Swedish

Adjective

store

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stor.

Anagrams

  • orets, rotes, teros

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