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US
/kəˈɫɛkt/
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NOUN
- a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
ADVERB
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make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays
call collect
send a package collect
VERB
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get or gather together
I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
She rolled up a small fortune
She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis -
gather or collect
You can get the results on Monday
They pick up our trash twice a week
She picked up the children at the day care center -
get or bring together
accumulate evidence -
assemble or get together
gather some stones
pull your thoughts together -
call for and obtain payment of
we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts
he collected the rent
ADJECTIVE
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payable by the recipient on delivery
a COD parcel
a collect call
the letter came collect
How To Use collect In A Sentence
- The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- Federal law allows plaintiffs to collect up to $ 100, 000 per infringement.
- After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
- A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
- Often considered to be one of the most spectacular lizard species, sometimes called the "Jesus lizard", the green basilisk is a striking addition to any reptile collection.
- Modern processors have a special hardware facility, the Performance Monitor Unit (PMU), to collect the events related with the operations in the processor.
- _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- This enables more active forms of mobilization, with many memberships engaged in various forms of collective action, often for the first times in their history.
- The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
