COLLECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collect mean? 

• COLLECT (noun)
  The noun COLLECT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COLLECT used as a noun is very rare.

• COLLECT (adjective)
  The adjective COLLECT has 1 sense:

1. payable by the recipient on delivery

  Familiarity information: COLLECT used as an adjective is very rare.

• COLLECT (verb)
  The verb COLLECT has 5 senses:

1. get or gather together

2. call for and obtain payment of

3. assemble or get together

4. get or bring together

5. gather or collect

  Familiarity information: COLLECT used as a verb is common.

• COLLECT (adverb)
  The adverb COLLECT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COLLECT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("collect" is a kind of...):

orison; petition; prayer (reverent petition to a deity)

• COLLECT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Payable by the recipient on delivery

Synonyms:

cod; collect

Context example:

a COD parcel

Similar:

due (owed and payable immediately or on demand)

• COLLECT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they collect ... he / she / it collects   
Past simple: collected   
Past participle: collected   
-ing form: collecting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up

Context example:

She rolled up a small fortune

Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

corral (collect or gather)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

bale (make into a bale)

catch (take in and retain)

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The crowds collect in the streets

Derivation:

collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Call for and obtain payment of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

collect; take in

Context example:

he collected the rent

Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):

take (take into one's possession)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):

farm (collect fees or profits)

raise (collect funds for a specific purpose)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

collectible (subject to or requiring payment especially as specified)

collector (a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Assemble or get together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

collect; garner; gather; pull together

Context example:

pull your thoughts together

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):

rake (gather with a rake)

heap up; pile up; stack up (arrange into piles or stacks)

shock (collect or gather into shocks)

clam (gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean)

pearl (gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean)

sponge (gather sponges, in the ocean)

oyster (gather oysters, dig oysters)

nest (gather nests)

bird-nest; birdnest (gather birdnests)

snail (gather snails)

cull; pick; pluck (look for and gather)

round up (seek out and bring together)

come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon (gather or bring together)

salvage; scavenge (collect discarded material)

hive (gather into a hive)

club (gather into a club-like mass)

glean; harvest; reap (gather, as of natural products)

marshal; mobilise; mobilize; summon (make ready for action or use)

nut (gather nuts)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Get or bring together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

collect; pull in

Context example:

accumulate evidence

Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):

archive; file away (put into an archive)

beat up; drum up; rally (gather)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Gather or collect

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

call for; collect; gather up; pick up

Context example:

They pick up our trash twice a week

Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

• COLLECT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays

Context example:

send a package collect

 Context examples 

The fluid that is abnormally collected in the abdominal cavity as a result of vascular pressure, liver disorder, or malignancy.

(Abdominal Fluid, NCI Thesaurus)

White blood cells go to the infected area, collect within the damaged tissue, and cause inflammation.

(Abscess, NIH)

A device or material designed to collect a force or substance.

(Accumulator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

T cells are collected from a patient and grown in the laboratory.

(Adoptive cellular therapy, NCI Dictionary)

They collected umbilical cord blood from 996 births and measured the amount of acetaminophen and two of its byproducts in each sample.

(Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism, National Institutes of Health)

Through the images we collected, we can see that it does this by generating a naturally cross-laminated fibre structure.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

"For years we've been doing microplastics studies the same way, by using a net to collect samples," Brandon said.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

For example, the Solar Ultraviolet Imager on the GOES-R Series satellites runs on a four-minute cycle, collecting data in six different wavelengths every cycle.

(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)

The components used to make the perovskite can be changed to give the materials different colours and structural properties, for example, making the films emit different colours or collect sunlight more efficiently.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)

NOTE(S): This is used only when duration is collected on the CRF and not derived from start and end date/times.

(Adverse Event Duration, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)