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The Meaning of collect
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(v. t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
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(v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
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(v. t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
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(v. i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
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(v. i.) To infer; to conclude.
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(v. t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
Synonyms
cod
,
heap up
,
call for
,
furl
,
lay away
,
hoard
,
stash
,
cache
,
amass
,
gather up
,
bundle up
,
wrap up
,
hive up
,
squirrel away
,
compose
,
roll up
,
take in
,
pull in
,
gather
,
roll
,
pick up
,
conglomerate
,
pile up
,
bundle
,
stack up
,
pull together
,
accumulate
,
compile
,
cumulate
,
garner
,
earn
,
put one over
,
gather in
,
suck up
,
invite
,
befool
,
slang
,
imbibe
,
gain
,
put on
,
view
,
put one across
,
take
,
have
,
suck
,
adopt
,
make
,
see
,
receive
,
ingest
,
realise
,
soak up
,
sop up
,
watch
,
clear
,
gull
,
take up
,
fool
,
draw
,
bring in
,
overhear
,
catch
,
assimilate
,
absorb
,
dupe
,
realize
,
consume
,
suck in
,
assemble
,
pucker
,
meet
,
foregather
,
tuck
,
get together
,
forgather
,
pull
,
move in
,
get in
,
attract
,
draw in
,
gain vigor
,
cop
,
peck
,
nail
,
need
,
lift up
,
perk up
,
necessitate
,
arrest
,
get word
,
quest
,
nab
,
percolate
,
demand
,
postulate
,
request
,
require
,
collar
,
turn around
,
apprehend
,
get a line
,
ask
,
uplift
,
involve
,
find out
,
intoxicate
,
bespeak
,
elate
,
learn
,
get wind
,
perk
,
discover
,
hear
,
hoard up
,
store up
,
aggregate
,
store
,
hive away
,
lay in
,
put in
,
salt away
,
stack away
,
stash away
Antonyms
undue
,
disperse
,
divide
,
portion
,
spend
,
waste
,
dissipate
,
parcel
,
scatter
,
squander
Rhymes
affect
,
aftereffect
,
albrecht
,
architect
,
aspect
,
becht
,
bedecked
,
brecht
,
checked
,
circumspect
,
confect
,
connect
,
correct
,
decked
,
defect
,
deflect
,
deject
,
deregt
,
detect
,
dialect
,
direct
,
disaffect
,
disconnect
,
disinfect
,
disrespect
,
dissect
,
effect
,
eject
,
elect
,
erect
,
expect
,
fecht
,
hecht
,
henpecked
,
incorrect
,
indirect
,
infect
,
inject
,
insect
,
inspect
,
intellect
,
interconnect
,
interject
,
intersect
,
introspect
,
knecht
,
misdirect
,
necked
,
neglect
,
nondirect
,
object
,
overprotect
,
pecht
,
perfect
,
prefect
,
project
,
protect
,
rechecked
,
recht
,
recollect
,
reconnect
,
redirect
,
reflect
,
reinspect
,
reject
,
respect
,
resurrect
,
retrospect
,
schlecht
,
sect
,
select
,
specht
,
subject
,
suspect
,
teleconnect
,
trekked
,
unchecked
,
wecht
,
whelked
,
wrecked