collect🔊

To gather together; amass.

To get; particularly, get from someone.

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

To pick up or fetch [someone, in a vehicle]

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

(often with ''on'' or ''against'') To collect payments.

To come together in a group or mass.

To infer; to conclude.

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

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

With payment due from the recipient.

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