collectverb詞源 1/kəˈlɛkt/

• 1

  To gather together; amass.

  • Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
  • The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
• 2

  To get; particularly, get from someone.

  • A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
  • The EPA collects emissions data from more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the country and has even developed its own state-of-the-art tool — the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model — to estimate the impact of toxic emissions on human health.
• 3

  To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

  • John Henry collects stamps.
  • I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
• 4

  To pick up or fetch

  • Can you collect me from the airport?
• 5

  archaicTo form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)

  • […] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
  • From the latter passages we may collect, that the expression "he that cometh" was, with the Jews, a kind of title distinguishing the Messiah
• 6

  To collect payments.

  • He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
• 7

  To come together in a group or mass.

  • The rain collected in puddles.
• 8

  To infer; to conclude.

  • Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.

collectadj詞源 1/kəˈlɛkt/

• 1

  To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

  • It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.

collectadv詞源 1/kəˈlɛkt/

• 1

  With payment due from the recipient.

  • I had to call collect.

collectnoun詞源 2/ˈkɑlɪkt/

• 1

  ChristianityThe prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

  • He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.