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What (who) is collect - definition
SHORT GENERAL PRAYER
Prayer of the Day; Collects; Opening Prayer (in the Mass); Collect prayer
collect
(collects, collecting, collected)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
Two young girls were collecting firewood...
1.5 million signatures have been collected.
= gather
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you collect things, such as stamps or books, as a hobby, you get a large number of them over a period of time because they interest you.
One of Tony's hobbies was collecting rare birds.
VERB: V n
• collecting
...hobbies like stamp collecting and fishing.
N-UNCOUNT: with supp, oft n N
3.
When you collect someone or something, you go and get them from the place where they are waiting for you or have been left for you. (BRIT; in AM, usually use pick up
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)
David always collects Alistair from school on Wednesdays...
After collecting the cash, the kidnapper made his escape down the disused railway line.
= pick up
VERB: V n from n, V n
4.
If a substance collects somewhere, or if something collects it, it keeps arriving over a period of time and is held in that place or thing.
Methane gas does collect in the mines around here.
...water tanks which collect rainwater from the house roof.
VERB: V prep/adv, V n, also V
5.
If something collects light, energy, or heat, it attracts it.
Like a telescope it has a curved mirror to collect the sunlight.
VERB: V n
6.
If you collect for a charity or for a present for someone, you ask people to give you money for it.
Are you collecting for charity?...
They collected donations for a fund to help military families.
VERB: V for n, V n for n, also V n
7.
If you collect yourself or collect your thoughts, you make an effort to calm yourself or prepare yourself mentally.
She paused for a moment to collect herself...
He was grateful for a chance to relax and collect his thoughts.
= compose
VERB: V pron-refl, V n
8.
A collect call is a telephone call that is paid for by the person receiving it, not the person making it. (AM)
She received a collect phone call from Alaska.
ADJ: ADJ n
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If you call collect when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
Should you lose your ticket call collect on STA's helpline.
PHRASE: V inflects
Collect
·vt To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
III. Collect ·vt To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
IV. Collect ·vt To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
V. Collect ·vt A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
VI. Collect ·vi To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to Accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
collect
v.
1) (D; intr.) to collect around (a crowd collected around them)
2) (D; tr.) to collect from (to collect money from one's colleagues)
3)(D; intr.) to collect on (to collect on one's insurance)
Wikipedia
Collect
The collect ( KOL-ekt) is a short general prayer of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy.
Collects appear in the liturgies of Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches, among others (in those of Eastern Christianity the Greek term [déesis] synapté is often used instead of the Latin term [oratio] collecta, both having the same meaning).
Examples of use of collect
1. "There are beaches that collect mostly rights and other beaches that collect mostly lefts.
2. The collectors Some collect stamps or butterflies, but Israel‘s wealthy collect luxury apartments. .
3. We used to be able to collect 100kg of mushrooms a day – the whole village would collect them.
4. "I was instructed to collect information regarding a government official through whom they expected to collect information compromising the president.
5. "We collect money from philanthropists and businessmen.