Collect(v. i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
Collect(v. i.) To infer; to conclude.
Collect(v. t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
Collect(v. t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
Collect(v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
Collect(v. t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Collected(a.) Gathered together.
Collected(a.) Self-possessed; calm; composed.
Collected(imp. & p. p.) of Collect
Collectedly(adv.) Composedly; coolly.
Collectible(a.) Capable of being collected.
Collecting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collect
Collection(n.) The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
Collection(n.) That which is collected
Collection(n.) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
Collection(n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
Collection(n.) That which is obtained in payment of demands.
Collection(n.) An accumulation of any substance.
Collection(n.) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
Collection(n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Collectional(a.) Of or pertaining to collecting.
Collective(a.) Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
Collective(a.) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
Collective(a.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
Collective(a.) Tending to collect; forming a collection.
Collective(a.) Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
Collective(n.) A collective noun or name.
Collectively(adv.) In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
Collectiveness(n.) A state of union; mass.
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