Word Finder - collects

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

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

She collects men like this.

Quotable Jazz collects the best of these often funny, sometimes outrageous, always enlightening quotes.

Stationary waves are formed in the air in the dust-tube if the length is rightly adjusted by the closely-fitting piston, and the lycopodium dust collects at the nodes in little heaps, the first being at the fixed end and the last just in front of the piston on the sounder.

The commercial intelligence department collects and disseminates accurate information on general commercial questions, and collects and exhibits samples of goods of foreign origin competing with similar British goods.

Lampblack is prepared by burning tar, resin, turpentine and other substances rich in carbon, with a limited supply of air; the products of combustion being conducted into condensing chambers in which cloths are suspended, on which the carbon collects.

Of this family the members are almost exclusively marine, but Limnicythere is found in fresh water, and Xestoleberis bromeliarum (Fritz Muller) lives in the water that collects among the leaves of Bromelias, plants allied to the pine-apples.

They include most of the collects on Saints' Days, for which, though no direct evidence of authorship is as yet forthcoming, Cranmer is probably responsible, and certain other collects, such as that for the Royal Family (Archbishop Whitgift); that for the high court of parliament (Archbishop Laud); that for all conditions of men (Bishop Gunning), &c.

The operation is essentially a dissociation of alumina into aluminium, which collects at the cathode, and into oxygen, which combines with the anodes to form carbon monoxide, the latter escaping and being burnt to carbon dioxide outside.

In the formation of spores the nucleus of the cell divides, the protoplasm collects round the nuclei to form the spores by free-cell formation; the protoplasm (epiplasm) not used in this process becomes disorganized.

In the Church of England the history of the Passion from the gospel according to John is also read; the collects for the day are based upon the bidding prayers which are found in the Ordo Romanus.

The Usk rises in the Carmarthenshire Van on the west, and flowing in a direction nearly due east through the centre of the county, collects the water from the range of the Beacons in the south, and from the Eppynt range in the north by means of numerous smaller streams, of which the Tarell and the Honddu (which join it at Brecon) are the most important, and it enters Monmouthshire near Abergavenny.

One is a blood-splattered redneck who collects roadkill, dumping the bodies of dead deer into a fetid carcass swamp.

The first process in laying out the workings consists in driving a gallery on the level along the course of the coal seam, which is known as a " dip head level," and a lower parallel one, in which the water collects, known as a " lodgment level."

To the west of this ridge the water collects to form the Asan, a tributary of the Jumna; whilst to the east the Suswa receives the drainage and flows into the Ganges.

The hexachloride, WC1 6, is obtained by heating the metal in a current of dry chlorine in the absence of oxygen or moisture, otherwise some oxychloride is formed; a sublimate of dark violet crystals appear at first, but as the hexachloride increases in quantity it collects as a very dark red liquid.

For these settlers he has to find British wives, and to this end collects 11,000 noble and 60,000 plebeian virgins, who are wrecked on their passage across.

When this white powder is heated and stirred about by any substance whatever, it collects in masses like new-fallen snow, and adheres to the body with which it is stirred.

Gradually there were added to these psalter choir-books additions in the form of antiphons, responses, collects or short prayers, for the use of those not skilful at improvisation and metrical compositions.

The new Scottish Proprium sanctioned for the Roman Catholic province of St Andrews in 1903 contains many of the old Aberdeen collects and antiphons.

The collects come at the close of the office and are short prayers summing up the supplications of the congregation.

The collects of the Breviary are largely drawn from the Gelasian and other Sacramentaries, and they are used to sum up the dominant idea of the festival in connexion with which they happen to be used.

A narrow width of the coast districts collects its waters for discharge into the Arabian Sea direct.

The consul collects the property (including arrears of wages) of British seamen or apprentices dying abroad, and remits to H.M.

It therefore creeps up the side of the glass dragging the strong wine after it, and this goes on till the quantity of fluid dragged up collects into a drop and runs down the side of the glass.

They are eminently dry-country plants (xerophytes); the narrow leaves are protected from loss of water by a thick cuticle, and have a well-developed sheath which embraces the stem and forms, with the sheaths of the other leaves of the rosette, a basin in which water collects, with fragments of rotting leaves and the like.

The commission collects the small fee of 20 cents a car for its services as inspector, and later weighs all the wheat as it is distributed into the elevators.

All taxes levied by the state are paid by the communal council, which assesses the property owned by each family under its authority, collects the amount due and has the right to retain one-fourth, or more, for local requirements.

Large tracts of the Croatian highlands are well-nigh waterless, and it is only in the more sheltered hollows that sufficient soil collects for large trees to flourish.

In the earlier source Noah collects seven pairs of clean animals, one of each kind; he sacrifices after leaving the ark, and Yahweh promises not to curse the ground or to smite living things again.

It is a station of the Chinese imperial maritime customs which collects duties on vessels trading between China and the Portuguese colony of Macao.

The fat gradually exudes and collects on the top of the water, whilst the membranous matter, "greaves," falls to the bottom.

Heat is transferred from the compressed vapour to the cooling water and the vapour is converted into a liquid, which collects at the bottom and returns by the regulating valve into the refrigerator.

The clerk of the county court collects all taxes of persons, companies or corporations subject to a privilege tax; the county trustee the taxes of other persons.

Here she stands for some time; then, descending to her web, she collects the wreckage in great armfuls.

Mount Everest The British Story - Colin collects autographs relating to climbers of Mount Everest.

You collect spyware as you surf the net just as a ship collects barnacles.

He has a particular interest in ancient crafts and industries and he collects and restores rural bygones.

Currently the Farm collects cardboard from a local shopping center which is then shredded for animal bedding.

A large capacity, 55 liter, rear bag collects grass clippings.

This upstream chamber collects steam condensate and inhibits contact with the hydrophobic filter cartridge.

The Homeless Musics compilation collects four live tracks, four remixes, and some new demos and will only be available at gigs.

This site collects, categorizes and analyzes (for plausibility) a large collection of Urban Legends for your amusement and greater edification.

Mr Rossiter, 05 Sep 05 When one collects luggage, it should be called for in a more orderly fashion.

The boat - grounded in the shallows collects water-plants croaking frogs pale fish.

Perry collects gong - May 04 Perry Fenwick collected a Soap Award on behalf of the Eastender's cast.

For example, the project now collects increased tonnage from kerbside collections, which brings challenges in terms of storage, transport to markets.

The East or Hampshire Avon rises in Wiltshire south of Marlborough, and watering the Vale of Pewsey collects feeders from the high downs between Marlborough and Devizes.

This lake collects waters by the Brathay from Langdale, the head of which, between Bow Fell and Langdale Pikes (2401 ft.), is very fine; and by the Rothay from Dunmail Raise and the small lakes of Grasmere and Rydal Water, embowered in woods.

Finance, regarded as state house-keeping, or " political economy " (see Economics) in the older sense of the term, deals with (I) the expenditure of the state; (2) state revenues; (3) the balance between expenditure and receipts; (4) the organization which collects and applies the public funds.

Wright, The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite (1882); Bayer, Historia Osrhoena et Edessena (St Petersburg, 1784), collects the references in classical authors; for the coinage see references in von Gutschmid (see below).