Definition of Collect. Meaning of Collect. Synonyms of Collect

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Definition of Collect

Collect
Collect Col*lect", v. i. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks. 2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. --South.
Collect
Collect Col"lect, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See Collect, v. t.] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Collect from wikipedia

- A collectable (collectible or collector's item) is any object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector. Collectable items are not necessarily...
- The collect (/ˈkɒlɛkt/ KOL-ekt) is a short general prayer of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy. Collects appear in the liturgies of Catholic...
- A collect call in Canada and the United States, known as a reverse charge call in other parts of the English-speaking world, is a telephone call in which...
- The hobby of collecting includes s****ing, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining items that are of interest...
- Patch collecting or badge collecting (also, scutelliphily, from Latin scutellus meaning little shield, and Gr**** phileein meaning to love) is the hobby...
- The psychology of collecting is an area of study that s****s to understand the motivating factors explaining why people devote time, money, and energy making...
- Record collecting is the hobby of collecting sound recordings, usually of music, but sometimes poetry, reading, historical speeches, and ambient noises...
- Ballot collecting, also known as "ballot harvesting" or "ballot chasing", is the gathering and submitting of completed absentee or mail-in voter ballots...
- Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender. Coins of interest to collectors include beautiful, rare, and historically...
- Element collecting is the hobby of collecting the chemical elements. Many element collectors simply enjoy finding peculiar uses of chemical elements....