collect
pronunciation
How to pronounce collect in British English:
UK [kəˈlekt]
How to pronounce collect in American English:
US [kəˈlekt]
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- Noun:
- a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
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- Verb:
- get or gather together
- call for and obtain payment of
- assemble or get together
- get or bring together
- gather or collect
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- Adjective:
- payment due by the recipient on delivery
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- Adverb:
- make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays
Word Origin
- collect
- collect: [16] Collect comes via French collecter or medieval Latin collēctāre from collēct-, the past participial stem of Latin colligere ‘gather together’, a compound verb formed from com- ‘together’ and legere ‘gather’ (source also of English elect, neglect, and select and, from its secondary meaning ‘read’, lecture and legible).The specialized noun use of collect, ‘short prayer’, pronounced with its main stress on the first syllable, antedates the verb in English, having arrived via Old French in the 13th century. It comes from late Latin collēcta ‘assembly’, a nominalization of the past participle of colligere, which was used in medieval times in the phrase ōrātiō ad collēctam ‘prayer to the congregation’. Collect comes from the past participle of Latin colligere, but its infinitive form is the source of English coil and cull.=> coil, cull, elect, lecture, legible, ligneous, neglect, select
- collect (v.)
- early 15c. (transitive), from Old French collecter "to collect" (late 14c.), from Latin collectus, past participle of colligere "gather together," from com- "together" (see com-) + legere "to gather" (see lecture (n.)). The intransitive sense is attested from 1794. Related: Collected; collecting. As an adjective meaning "paid by the recipient" it is attested from 1893, originally with reference to telegrams.
Example
- 1. Probably he will start to collect movies himself .
- 2. But instruments to collect data would still need to be built .
- 3. Some governments collect huge sums which they then fail to spend .
- 4. In the huge telescopes of modern astronomy , one or more mirrors serve to collect light .
- 5. Why do you collect neolithic pottery ?