[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

collect \collect"\ ko^lle^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
see also:
collected collecting legend coil cull to collect one's self 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

collect \collect"\, 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

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
collect 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

collect
     adj : payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call";
           "the letter came collect"; "a cod parcel" syn: cod
     n : a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the church
         of rome or the church of england
     adv : make a telephone call or mail a package so that the
           recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package
           collect"
     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, 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: take in
     3: assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your
        thoughts together" syn: gather, garner, pull
        together ant: spread
     4: get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" syn: 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: pick up, gather up, call
        for
see also:
cod roll up accumulate pile up amass compile 
hoard take in gather garner pull together 
spread pull in pick up gather up call for 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

232 moby thesaurus words for "collect":
   angelus, ave, ave maria, hail mary, kyrie eleison, paternoster,
   accouple, accumulate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup,
   aid prayer, align, amass, appeal, array, articulate, assemble,
   associate, backlog, band, batch, beadroll, beads, beseechment,
   bidding prayer, bond, bracket, breviary, bridge, bridge over,
   bring, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up,
   cement, chain, chaplet, clap together, clot, clump, cluster,
   colligate, collocate, combine, come, come together, communion,
   compare, compile, comprise, concatenate, concentrate, conclude,
   conglobulate, conglomerate, congregate, congress, conjoin,
   conjugate, connect, contemplation, control, convene, converge,
   cool, copulate, corral, couple, cover, crowd, cull, cumulate, date,
   deduce, deduct, derive, devotions, dig up, dispose, draw,
   draw a conclusion, draw an inference, draw together, draw up,
   dredge up, drive together, embrace, encompass, entreaty, extract,
   fetch, find, flock together, flow together, forgather, fuse,
   gang around, gang up, garner, garner up, gather, gather around,
   gather in, gather into barns, gather together, gather up, get,
   get in, get together, glean, glue, grace, group, grub, grub up,
   heap up, herd together, hide, hive, hoard, hoard up, hold, horde,
   huddle, impetration, imploration, include, induce, infer,
   intercession, invocation, join, judge, juxtapose, keep, knot,
   lay together, lay up, league, link, litany, lump together, make,
   make out, make up, marry, marshal, mass, match, meditation, meet,
   merge, mill, mobilize, muster, obsecration, obtestation, order,
   orison, pair, partner, petition, pick, pick up, piece together,
   pile up, pluck, prayer, prayer wheel, put together, put up, raise,
   rake up, rally, rally around, rank, reason, reason that, rein,
   rendezvous, repress, restrain, rogation, roll into one, rosary,
   round up, save, save up, scare up, scrape together, scrape up,
   secrete, seethe, silent prayer, simmer down, smother, solder, span,
   splice, squirrel, squirrel away, stick together, stock up,
   stockpile, store up, stream, suit, summon up, supplication,
   suppress, surge, swarm, take as proved, take in, take up, tape,
   thanks, thanksgiving, throng, tie, together, treasure, treasure up,
   unify, unite, weld, whip in, yoke

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