| 单词 | collect |
| 释义 | collect collect1 /keuh lekt"/, v.t. 1. to gather together; assemble: The professor collected the students' exams. 2. to accumulate; make a collection of: to collect stamps. 3. to receive or compel payment of: to collect a bill. 4. to regain control of (oneself or one's thoughts, faculties, composure, or the like): At the news of her promotion, she took a few minutes to collect herself. 5. to call for and take with one: He drove off to collect his guests. They collected their mail. 6. Manège. to bring (a horse) into a collected attitude. 7. Archaic. to infer. v.i. 8. to gather together; assemble: The students collected in the assembly hall. 9. to accumulate: Rain water collected in the barrel. 10. to receive payment (often fol. by on): He collected on the damage to his house. 11. to gather or bring together books, stamps, coins, etc., usually as a hobby: He's been collecting for years. 12. Manège. (of a horse) to come into a collected attitude. adj. , adv. 13. requiring payment by the recipient: a collect telephone call; a telegram sent collect. [1375-1425; late ME < L collectus (ptp. of colligere to collect), equiv. to col- COL-1 + leg- (s. of legere to gather) + -tus ptp. suffix] Syn. 1. See gather. 1, 2. amass, aggregate. 4. compose, calm. Ant. 1. broadcast. 2. distribute. collect2 /kol"ekt/, n. any of certain brief prayers used in Western churches esp. before the epistle in the communion service. [1150-1200; ME collecte < ML, short for oratio ad collectam prayer at collection (see COLLECT1)] |
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