collect
verboadjetivoadvérbiosubstantivocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈkɒlɪkt//
- Reino Unido//ˈkɒlɛkt//
- Estados Unidos//ˈkɑlɪkt//
- Estados Unidos//ˈkɑlɛkt//
- //kəˈlɛkt//
To gather together; amass.
verbo
- 1
To gather together; amass.
Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of three institutions collecting tropical plants for the National Cancer Institute in hopes of finding new drugs for treatment.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
- 2
To get; particularly, get from someone.
A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
The EPA collects emissions data from more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the country and has even developed its own state-of-the-art tool — the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model — to estimate the impact of toxic emissions on human health.
- 3
To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
John Henry collects stamps.
I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
My friend from school has started to collects mangas and novels recently
Over the course of 60 years, W E Hayward collected thousands of railway-related objects, including clothing, buttons, cutlery, timetables, tickets, name, number and builder's plates, books and booklets, cuttings and extracts from publications, letters, photographs and postcards.
- 4
To pick up or fetch
Can you collect me from the airport?
- 5
arcaicoTo form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
[…] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
From the latter passages we may collect, that the expression "he that cometh" was, with the Jews, a kind of title distinguishing the Messiah
'I collect,' said Miss Crawford, 'that Sotherton is an old place, and a place of some grandeur. In any particular style of building?'
the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
- 6
To collect payments.
He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
- 7
To come together in a group or mass.
The rain collected in puddles.
- 8
To infer; to conclude.
Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
- 9
To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
Etimologia
From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
adjetivo
- 1
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
advérbio
- 1
With payment due from the recipient.
I had to call collect.
substantivo
- 1
The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
Etimologia
From Middle English collecte, from Ecclesiastical Latin collēcta (“assembly; collect”), originally designating the gathering at the beginning of a liturgical celebration.
Formas
- plural
- collects
- pretérito
- collected
- particípio passado
- collected
- gerúndio
- collecting
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- collects