COLLECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collect mean? 

• COLLECT (noun)
  The noun COLLECT has 1 sense:

1. a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

  Familiarity information: COLLECT used as a noun is very rare.

• COLLECT (adjective)
  The adjective COLLECT has 1 sense:

1. payable by the recipient on delivery

  Familiarity information: COLLECT used as an adjective is very rare.

• COLLECT (verb)
  The verb COLLECT has 5 senses:

1. get or gather together
2. call for and obtain payment of
3. assemble or get together
4. get or bring together
5. gather or collect

  Familiarity information: COLLECT used as a verb is common.

• COLLECT (adverb)
  The adverb COLLECT has 1 sense:

1. make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays

  Familiarity information: COLLECT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECT (noun)

Meaning:

A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("collect" is a kind of...):

orison; petition; prayer (reverent petition to a deity)

• COLLECT (adjective)

Meaning:

Payable by the recipient on delivery

Synonyms:

cod; collect

Context examples:

a collect call / the letter came collect / a COD parcel

Similar:

due; owed (owed and payable immediately or on demand)

• COLLECT (verb)

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

compile; collect; accumulate; amass; hoard; roll up; pile up

Context examples:

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

Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

catch (take in and retain)

bale (make into a bale)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

corral (collect or gather)

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The crowds collect in the streets

Meaning:

Call for and obtain payment of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

collect; take in

Context examples:

we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts / he collected the rent

Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):

take (take into one's possession)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):

raise (collect funds for a specific purpose)

farm (collect fees or profits)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Meaning:

Assemble or get together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

gather; pull together; collect; garner

Context examples:

gather some stones / pull your thoughts together

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):

marshal; mobilise; mobilize; summon (make ready for action or use)

heap up; pile up; stack up (arrange into piles or stacks)

shock (collect or gather into shocks)

clam (gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean)

pearl (gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean)

sponge (gather sponges, in the ocean)

oyster (gather oysters, dig oysters)

nest (gather nests)

bird-nest; birdnest (gather birdnests)

snail (gather snails)

nut (gather nuts)

rake (gather with a rake)

glean; harvest; reap (gather, as of natural products)

hive (gather into a hive)

salvage; scavenge (collect discarded or refused material)

come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon (gather or bring together)

round up (seek out and bring together)

cull; pick; pluck (look for and gather)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Meaning:

Get or bring together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pull in; collect

Context example:

accumulate evidence

Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):

archive; file away (put into an archive)

beat up; drum up; rally (gather)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Meaning:

Gather or collect

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

gather up; call for; pick up; collect

Context examples:

You can get the results on Monday / She picked up the children at the day care center / They pick up our trash twice a week

Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

• COLLECT (adverb)

Meaning:

Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays

Context examples:

call collect / send a package collect