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v. To bring together in a group or mass; gather.

v. To accumulate as a hobby or for study.

v. To call for and obtain payment of: collect taxes.

v. To recover control of: collect one's emotions.

v. To call for (someone); pick up: collected the children and drove home.

verb-intransitive. To come together in a group or mass; gather. See Synonyms at gather.

verb-intransitive. To take in payments or donations: collecting for charity.

ad. With payment to be made by the receiver: called collect; a collect phone call.

n. Ecclesiastical A brief formal prayer that is used in various Western liturgies before the epistle and that varies with the day.

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

v. To gather together; amass.

v. To get; particularly, get from someone.

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

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

v. To collect payments.

v. To come together in a group or mass.

v. To collect objects as a hobby.

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

ad. With payment due from the recipient.

v. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

v. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness.

v. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.

verb-intransitive. To assemble together; ; to accumulate.

verb-intransitive. To infer; to conclude.

n. A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

To gather into one place or group; assemble or bring together; make a combination, group, or collection of; gather: as, to collect facts or evidence; to collect curiosities or rare books.

To receive or compel payment of; bring to a settlement: as, to collect a bill.

To ascertain or infer from observation or information; infer.

Synonyms To convene, convoke, muster, accumulate, amass, group.

To gather together; accumulate: as, pus collects in an abscess; snow collects in drifts.

To compose one's self.

n. In the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other Western liturgies: A concise prayer, varying according to the day, week, octave, or season, recited before the epistle, regularly consisting of one sentence, and asking for some grace or blessing with reference to some teaching of the epistle or gospel, or both.

n. In a wider sense, a prayer of similar character or construction, especially one following the collect for the day, or used just before the conclusion of an office.

n. A name sometimes given to the synapte of the Greek Church.

n. A collection.

In horsemanship, to gain control (of a horse) and bring it into a position where it has proper command of its powers.

v. gather or collect

v. call for and obtain payment of

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

adj. payable by the recipient on delivery

v. get or bring together

v. assemble or get together

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

v. get or gather together

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due   

collected    collectibility    collecting    collectively    collects   

acquire    get    prayer    petition    orison   

gather    infer    composer    to collect one's self   

hive    mobilise    scavenge    rake    pluck    sponge    oyster    birdnest    bird-nest    pick   

muster    garner    assemble    aggregate    congregate    gather    infer    deduce    accumulate    amass   

Brecht    Hecht    Select    affect    bedecked    checked    confect    connect    correct    decked   

autobiographical    unpublished    uncollected    commendatory    seminal    posthumous    forego    undistributed    miscellaneous    unread