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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | garner, gather, pull together |
| Has types | round up, bird-nest, birdnest, clam, club, come up, cull, glean, harvest, heap up, hive, marshal, mobilise, mobilize, muster, muster up, nest, nut, oyster, pearl, pick, pile up, pluck, rake, rally, reap, salvage, scavenge, shock, snail, sponge, stack up, summon |
| Derivation | collecting, collection |
collect::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cod |
a collect call.
the letter came collect.
Examples of collect
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Finally he calls the broker and says he's ready to sell and collect his profits.
From the businessweek.com
They also collect personal information, such as which causes interest the stars.
From the businessweek.com
Near the shore, nets, dredges and simple buckets were used to collect specimens.
From the online.wsj.com
The top three students to collect the most units each earn a $1,000 scholarship.
From the charlotteobserver.com
I asked for a moment to collect myself and was told that I had to leave at once.
From the dailyherald.com
Too nauseated even to collect a paperback and some spilled coins form the floor.
From the telegraph.co.uk
That projection is accurate, but it's uncertain that he will collect $1 million.
From the kentucky.com
A crowd would collect and backs would be slapped, pictures taken, shirts signed.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Illinois EPA inspectors returned several days later to test and collect samples.
From the dailyherald.com
- A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
- Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
- Payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
- Roll up: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
- Call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
- Gather: assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
- In Christian liturgy, a collect is both a liturgical action and a short, general prayer. In the Middle Ages, the prayer was referred to in Latin as collectio, but in the more ancient sources, as oratio. ...
- Collected is a "best of" album by British trip-hop collective Massive Attack, released on 27 March 2006. The album was preceded by the release of the single "Live With Me" on 13 March.
- (Collected (album)) Collected is a compilation album by Canadian rapper k-os. The album contains recent tracks from the first three albums, the hit singles, and remixes of a couple singles. The album also contains three new tracks. Two of which were leftovers from ''''.
