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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Collect \Col*lect"\, v. i. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks. [1913 Webster] 2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. --South. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Collect \Col*lect"\ (k[o^]l*l[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Collected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Collecting}.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See {Legend}, and cf. {Coil}, v. t., {Cull}, v. t.] 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. [1913 Webster] A band of men Collected choicely from each country. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. --Watts. [1913 Webster] 2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes. [1913 Webster] 3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. --Locke. [1913 Webster] {To collect one's self}, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control. Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Collect \Col"lect\, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See {Collect}, v. t.] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. [1913 Webster] The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: collect adv 1: make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect" adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn: {collect}, {cod}] n 1: a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England v 1: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: {roll up}, {collect}, {accumulate}, {pile up}, {amass}, {compile}, {hoard}] 2: call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" [syn: {collect}, {take in}] 3: assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [syn: {gather}, {garner}, {collect}, {pull together}] [ant: {distribute}, {spread}] 4: get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" [syn: {collect}, {pull in}] 5: gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week" [syn: {collect}, {pick up}, {gather up}, {call for}]