Word Finder - collect

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To gather together; amass.

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Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.

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To get; particularly, get from someone.

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A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan.   A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.

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

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I don't think he collects as much as hoards.

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

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(often with on or against) To collect payments.

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

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To come together in a group or mass.

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The rain collected in puddles.

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To infer; to conclude.

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(of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

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The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.

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

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

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With payment due from the recipient.

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I had to call collect.

I collect facts that are out there in the public domain.

Decided to collect after all?

With that in mind, she went downstairs to collect her valuables.

He listened without saying a word as I revealed everything, including Julie's effort to collect the million dollars.

Entertained by her pep talk with the flowers, Deidre reached her towering apartment building a short time later and paused to collect the mail.

Carmen wanted to do more than collect animals.

They also collect honey in large quantities.

If things get too hot, call me - collect, you hear?

The smell was so strong there that Rostov held his nose and had to pause and collect his strength before he could go on.

A competent, methodical assassin, she didn't make the mistake of trying to collect from someone not on the list.

We collect the money, the customer gets to relax, enjoy this gorgeous mountain scenery and eat your fresh blueberry muffins.

Here to collect damages?

Maybe. We haven't been able to collect souls for very long.

The jobars superintend the execution of the laws, collect fines and administer capital punishment; they are in contact with the buluk-bashi, or resident representative of the tribe at Scutari, who forms the only link between the mountaineers and the Turkish government.

Owing to the proximity of the capital this group is comparatively subject to the Turkish power, and pays a small annual tribute; the chiefs, who assess and collect the tribute, form a kind of administrative council; the confederation has also an official representative council at Scutari, called the Jibal, under the presidency of a Serkarde or Moslem official.

In 1868 the International Bureau of Telegraphic Administrations was constituted at Berne, and a convention was formulated by which a central office was appointed to collect and publish information and generally to promote the interests of international telegraphy.

The success of these ventures prompted him to collect his poems in 1722.

It faded away in the great Church, and probably Celsus was describing Montanist circles (though Origen assumed that they were ordinary believers) when he wrote 3 of the many Christians of no repute who at the least provocation, whether within or without their temples, threw themselves about like inspired persons; while others did the same in cities or among armies in order to collect alms, roaming about cities or camps.

The terror of their name had long preceded them, and Bela, in 1235 or 1236, sent the Dominican monk Julian, by way of Constantinople, to Russia, to collect information about them from the "ancient Magyars" settled there, possibly the Volgan Bulgarians.

Science's progress over the past few hundred years has been determined mainly by the relatively slow speed at which we were able to collect data.

The pope had repeatedly used the rich northern benefices to reward members of the Roman curia, and towards the close of the year 1516 he sent the grasping and impolitic Arcimboldi as papal nuncio to Denmark to collect money for St Peter's.

After the restoration of the temple the senate sent ambassadors in 76 to Erythrae to collect the oracles afresh and they brought back about 1000 verses; others were collected in Ilium, Samos, Sicily, Italy and Africa.

Divers have been employed to collect amber from the deeper waters.

The Church of England has reverted to early custom in so far as only "Easter Even" is distinguished by a special collect, gospel and epistle.

In imitation of the grandfather the grandson gave a commission to a Saxon, in whom he had confidence, to collect artists and artisans in Germany and bring them to Moscow, but he was prevented from carrying out his scheme by the Livonian Order (1547).

A station of moderate size may collect goods destined for a great variety of places but not in sufficient quantities to compose a full train-load for any of them, and then it becomes impossible to avoid despatching trains which contain wagons intended for many diverse destinations.

When Cassius demanded a tribute of 700 talents from Palestine, Antipater set Herod, Phasael and this Malichus, his enemy, to collect it.

You can also collect seashells of the same value.

The fire broke out alongside, and blew our way, the maid called out 'Fire!' and we rushed to collect our things.

Do you think I would hesitate to collect, if they were not?

Exactly and to collect souls of those who have died by other means.

She squealed and bent over to collect more snow.

She wore white and smiled, more like a nursemaid than the woman whose job was to collect souls.

The next morning Katie arrived early to collect Destiny and the twins.

In 1708 Peter sent Alexius to Smolensk to collect provender and recruits, and thence to Moscow to fortify it against Charles XII.

The emperor, Charles the Fat, was roused to collect a large army, with which he surrounded the main body of the Northmen under their leader Godfrey in the camp at Elsloo.

They collect and spin the indigenous cotton, which is of good quality, and dye it with indigo or other pigments; they also manufacture very handsome shawls.

Some of the scavengers, like the burying beetles, inter the bodies of small vertebrates to supply food for themselves and their larvae, or, like the "sacred" beetle of Egypt, collect for the same purpose stores of dung.

In 1866 he received three years' leave of absence to collect fresh materials, and in 1869 succeeded Heinrich Ewald as professor of oriental languages at Gottingen.

It is recorded that when a statue to President Kruger at Pretoria was erected, it was by Mrs. Kruger's wish that the hat was left open at the top, in order that the rain-water might collect there for the birds to drink.

For this purpose he sent the minister Thumi Sambhota, afterwards looked upon as an incarnation of Manju-sri, to India, there to collect the sacred books, and to learn and translate them.

The history of chancel repair is ancient, dating back prior to 1189 and is linked with the old right to collect tithes.

Most often, the blood sample is collected by venipuncture (using a needle to collect blood from a vein in the arm ).

We will collect and store any personal data that you may volunteer whist using our services (e.g. registration or placing an order ).

One effect of the Taiping rebellion was to close the native custom-house at Shanghai; and as Lhe corrupt alternatives proposed by the Chinese were worse than useless, it was arranged by Sir Rutherford Alcock, the British consul, with his French and American colleagues, that they should undertake to collect the duties on goods owned by foreigners entering and leaving the port.

In the former he developed a valuable method for the investigation of aerial waves within pipes, based on the fact that a finely divided powder - lycopodium, for example - when dusted over the interior of a tube in which is established a vibrating column of air, tends to collect in heaps at the nodes, the distance between which can thus be ascertained.

He visited Russia in order to collect documents on the political and economic organization of the Slav nations, and on his return published in the Revue des deux mondes (1882-1889) a series of articles, which appeared shortly afterwards in book form under the title L'Empire des tsars et les Russes (4th ed., revised in 3 vols., 1897-1898).

Pulling gloves and a bag from his pocket, he proceeded to collect the grisly specimen.

If she lost her deal with the human and Darkyn came to collect?

In three days, Darkyn may come on behalf of his mate to collect by any means necessary.