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COLLECT
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("collect" is a kind of...):
orison; petition; prayer (reverent petition to a deity)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Payable by the recipient on delivery
Example:
a COD parcel
Synonyms:
cod; collect
Classified under:
Similar:
due (owed and payable immediately or on demand)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they collect ... he / she / it collects
Past simple: collected
Past participle: collected
-ing form: collecting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Assemble or get together
Example:
pull your thoughts together
Synonyms:
collect; garner; gather; pull together
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):
heap up; pile up; stack up (arrange into piles or stacks)
shock (collect or gather into shocks)
clam (gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean)
pearl (gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean)
sponge (gather sponges, in the ocean)
oyster (gather oysters, dig oysters)
nest (gather nests)
bird-nest; birdnest (gather birdnests)
snail (gather snails)
nut (gather nuts)
cull; pick; pluck (look for and gather)
round up (seek out and bring together)
come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon (gather or bring together)
salvage; scavenge (collect discarded material)
hive (gather into a hive)
club (gather into a club-like mass)
glean; harvest; reap (gather, as of natural products)
rake (gather with a rake)
marshal; mobilise; mobilize; summon (make ready for action or use)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Get or bring together
Example:
accumulate evidence
Synonyms:
collect; pull in
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):
accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):
beat up; drum up; rally (gather)
archive; file away (put into an archive)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Call for and obtain payment of
Example:
he collected the rent
Synonyms:
collect; take in
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):
take (take into one's possession)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):
farm (collect fees or profits)
raise (collect funds for a specific purpose)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Derivation:
collectible (subject to or requiring payment especially as specified)
collector (a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Get or gather together
Example:
She rolled up a small fortune
Synonyms:
accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):
hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collect"):
run up (pile up (debts or scores))
corral (collect or gather)
collect; pull in (get or bring together)
come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)
chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)
bale (make into a bale)
catch (take in and retain)
fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)
fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The crowds collect in the streets
Derivation:
collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Gather or collect
Example:
They pick up our trash twice a week
Synonyms:
call for; collect; gather up; pick up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "collect" is one way to...):
acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
IV. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays
Example:
send a package collect
Classified under:
Context examples:
The specificity of MR for aldosterone is provided by 11beta-HSD2 by the rapid conversion of cortisol to cortisone in renal cortical collecting duct cells.
(Aldosterone-Regulated Sodium Reabsorption Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
A procedure in which blood is collected, part of the blood such as platelets or white blood cells is taken out, and the rest of the blood is returned to the donor.
(Apheresis, NCI Dictionary)
A sample of blood collected from a newborn child that is utilized to screen for both disorders present at birth and subsequent disease development.
(Archived Newborn Blood Sample, NCI Thesaurus)
Specifies whether the entity is represented as originally collected.
(As Collected Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)
In a scientific research study or clinical trial, a flaw in the study design or the method of collecting or interpreting information.
(Bias, NCI Dictionary)
It is made from immune system cells collected from a patient with prostate cancer.
(APC8015, NCI Dictionary)
A lymph node located in the superior mediastinum that collects lymph from the thymus, the pericardium, and the right side of the heart.
(Anterior Mediastinal Lymph Node, NCI Thesaurus)
It collects waste from the embryo.
(Allantois, NCI Thesaurus)
The stem cells can then be collected, stored, and given back to the patient.
(AMD 3100, NCI Dictionary)
Amiloride inhibits sodium channels located in the distal tubules and collecting ducts of the kidney, thereby preventing the absorption of sodium and increasing its excretion along with water, to produce naturesis.
(Amiloride, NCI Thesaurus)
