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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Collect \Col*lect"\, verb (used without an object)
1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic]
Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. --South.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Collect \Col"lect\, noun [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See {Collect}, verb (used with an object)] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. --Macaulay. ||
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Collect \Col*lect"\ (k[o^]l*l[e^]kt"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Collected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Collecting}.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See {Legend}, and cf. {Coil}, verb (used with an object), {Cull}, verb (used with an object)]
1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
A band of men Collected choicely from each country. --Shak.
'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. --Watts.
2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] --Shak.
Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. --Locke.
{To collect one's self}, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.
Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
collect
adjective: payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn: {cod}]
noun: a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
adverb: make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect"
verb
1: 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" [syn: {roll up}, {accumulate}, {pile up}, {amass}, {compile}, {hoard}]
2: call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" [syn: {take in}]
3: assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [syn: {gather}, {garner}, {pull together}] [ant: {spread}]
4: get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" [syn: {pull in}]
5: gather or collect; "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" [syn: {pick up}, {gather up}, {call for}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
232 Moby Thesaurus words for "collect": Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, accouple, accumulate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, aid prayer, align, amass, appeal, array, articulate, assemble, associate, backlog, band, batch, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, bond, bracket, breviary, bridge, bridge over, bring, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, cement, chain, chaplet, clap together, clot, clump, cluster, colligate, collocate, combine, come, come together, communion, compare, compile, comprise, concatenate, concentrate, conclude, conglobulate, conglomerate, congregate, congress, conjoin, conjugate, connect, contemplation, control, convene, converge, cool, copulate, corral, couple, cover, crowd, cull, cumulate, date, deduce, deduct, derive, devotions, dig up, dispose, draw, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, draw together, draw up, dredge up, drive together, embrace, encompass, entreaty, extract, fetch, find, flock together, flow together, forgather, fuse, gang around, gang up, garner, garner up, gather, gather around, gather in, gather into barns, gather together, gather up, get, get in, get together, glean, glue, grace, group, grub, grub up, heap up, herd together, hide, hive, hoard, hoard up, hold, horde, huddle, impetration, imploration, include, induce, infer, intercession, invocation, join, judge, juxtapose, keep, knot, lay together, lay up, league, link, litany, lump together, make, make out, make up, marry, marshal, mass, match, meditation, meet, merge, mill, mobilize, muster, obsecration, obtestation, order, orison, pair, partner, petition, pick, pick up, piece together, pile up, pluck, prayer, prayer wheel, put together, put up, raise, rake up, rally, rally around, rank, reason, reason that, rein, rendezvous, repress, restrain, rogation, roll into one, rosary, round up, save, save up, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, secrete, seethe, silent prayer, simmer down, smother, solder, span, splice, squirrel, squirrel away, stick together, stock up, stockpile, store up, stream, suit, summon up, supplication, suppress, surge, swarm, take as proved, take in, take up, tape, thanks, thanksgiving, throng, tie, together, treasure, treasure up, unify, unite, weld, whip in, yoke
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