different between summon vs collect

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman somoundre, from Old French sumundre, from Latin summon?re, itself from sub + mon?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m?n/
• Rhymes: -?m?n

Verb

summon (third-person singular simple present summons, present participle summoning, simple past and past participle summoned)

1. (transitive) To call people together; to convene.
   • 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence.

     Silence is primary, summoning presence to itself; so it's a connection to the realm of origin.

2. (transitive) To ask someone to come; to send for.
3. To order (goods) and have delivered
4. (transitive) To rouse oneself to exert a skill.

   Synonyms: summon up, muster, muster up

   • 1866, Pierre Bigandet, The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese, with annotations and notice on the Phongyies or Burmese monks, page 396

     For securing the attainment of what he considered to be a most desirable end, he summoned all his abilities with a most praiseworthy energy and perseverance.

   • 2011, Sister Louise Sweigart, cgs, Joseph: A Guiding Light, Inspiring Voices ?ISBN, page 61

     Joseph needed to summon all his reserve to keep his self-control, for no sooner had Asa voiced his request than Joseph recalled his remark to Aaron about a child being given to this couple in lieu of their giving Mary to him.

   • November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

     City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.

5. (fantasy, transitive) To call a resource by magic.
   • 2010, Kay Hooper, The Wizard of Seattle, Fanfare ?ISBN

     “Why won't you teach me to summon water? I can summon fire so easily, it's only logical that I should learn to put out my mistakes.”

6. (law, transitive) To summons; convene.

Derived terms

• summons
• summon up

Translations

Noun

summon (plural summons)

1. (video games) A creature magically summoned to do the summoner's bidding.
2. call, command, order (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • quoted in 2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1898-1913 (page 172)

     The deceased was 58 years of age, was the picture of health even five or six hours prior to his death, when suddenly the grim messenger came with a summon from a Higher Tribunal, calling him to duties above.

Anagrams

• musmon, nommus

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