collect
IPA: kʌɫˈɛkt
noun
- (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
verb
- (transitive) To gather together; amass.
- (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
- (transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
- (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
- (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
- (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
- (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
- (transitive, of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
adjective
- To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
adverb
- With payment due from the recipient.
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Examples of "collect" in Sentences
- The only award he will ever collect is a MTV award.
- It remains unclear how the survey data is collected.
- She called collect which is what prisoners have to do.
- She called collect, which is what prisoners have to do.
- Europe falls to the Chimera, and the USA collects data on it.
- The independent variables are the data collected in the survey.
- This is part of the data collection for the nomination dossier.
- The data collected is qualitative and useful for defining the problem.
- One can collect their Jackpot Euros in the game by collecting flotsam.
- Send {Esc} collect = \% collect\% ` n\%pickName\%: \% pickCHMODvalue\%
- The collection will also include bonus video content and collectable images.
- I already collect the size of the article at the time of the edit regardless.
- The manager is in charge to collect pilot data making it difficult for any particular party to leak or pilfer the data.
- It's expected that the data collected will contribute to a better understanding of the distribution and abundance of dolphins, porpoises and seals.
- I didn't mention it on the day but last Sunday's collect is a wonderful, short prayer for the the world and the church particularly apt in hoc tempore:
- Even in the UK's sunniest region, the maximum consumers could save is £412 a year from their electricity bill, compared with the £1,313 that free solar panel companies such as British Gas and Isis Solar will collect from the feed-in tariffs (FITs), the government 'incentive scheme that pays for small-scale renewable energy generation.
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