COLLECT

Meaning of COLLECT in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a collect call American English (= one paid for by the person who receives it )

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Can I make a collect call to Florida, please?

collect call

collect data

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The survey data has been collected over the last three decades.

collect the rent

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His job is to collect the rents from the tenants.

collect your pension (= receive it or go to get it )

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She went to the post office every week to collect her pension.

collect/gather information

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The job consisted of gathering information about consumer needs.

compile/collect/gather statistics

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Police have not yet compiled statistics for this year.

cool, calm, and collected

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Outwardly she is cool, calm, and collected .

gather/collect dust (= become covered with dust )

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Piles of old books lay on the floor gathering dust.

gather/collect evidence

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Police experts are still collecting evidence at the scene of the crime.

stamp collecting

take/collect a sample

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The study took samples from workers at four nuclear plants.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

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together

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He began to collect together an aerial force to attack the city.

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By the beginning of February they had collected together most of their provisions.

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This book collects together what I consider to be some of the major unsolved mysteries of science.

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Groups of foods that are good sources of certain nutrients are collected together in six appendices.

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But this merely collected together the singles and other stray tracks.

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More generally, document boundaries may be blurred and a massive body of material may be collected together in one interlinked corpus.

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What is needed, therefore, is a way of collecting together all the processor registers to allow rapid process switches.

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They were collected together by Dean Milner-White who assembled them here where they could be appreciated.

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award

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Cote keeps leaping out of his seat to collect award after award.

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Celebrities including Michael Crawford and Peter Bowles saw her collect her bravery award .

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After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it.

data

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New York City health officials were able analyze very recent data because the city collects birth and death records for its residents.

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It will be based on computer literature searches, previous data collected at Templeton College, and other methods.

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The research is especially vulnerable if the data are collected from personal interviews.

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Primary data is most frequently collected by means of surveys, based on questionnaires or interviews.

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Although the data collected were quite adequate for this purpose, no attempt was made to claim representativeness for the doorstep survey.

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Figure 1 shows the existing Northumbria Police area where most of the ethnographic data was collected .

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The necessary data will be collected by questionnaire survey.

evidence

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Mahmoud was responsible for collecting the evidence , deciding whether there was a case, and then carrying through prosecution.

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Agents would continue collecting evidence at least through Friday, Alexander said.

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The Commission has a discretion to conduct an investigation in order to collect information and evidence pertinent to the request for assistance.

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The federal government already has spent $ 24 million collecting evidence .

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A mixture of qualitative and quantitative research methods will be employed to collect evidence about the efficacy and impact of the Plans.

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But having been once rebuffed, the Scandinavians set about collecting more evidence .

information

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Such information is often laboriously collected by literature-searching and is conventionally processed as text.

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The information the device collects helps divers gather more accurate records of free-fall times.

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We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected .

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These objectives should be based on the information collected in the needs assessment.

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The interviews were supplemented by as much documentary information as could be collected .

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The information collected was subsequently published; three topics are of particular interest.

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The information will be collected on a confidential hot line, called Raceguard, operating on a 24-hour answerphone from next Tuesday.

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Quantum and costs information can be collected on specially designed forms.

material

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During the Worthing trial, three-quarters of the 5,000 households involved used the crates to collect recyclable materials .

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After collecting all kinds of material the catapult began to take shape.

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At last, after collecting enough materials , Endill was ready to start building the wings of his plane.

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In such cases the interview is used to collect illustrative material to complement other material and findings.

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Officers collect and present material both to committees and to the whole council.

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By now photography had become much more than a way to collect material for my first passion, artwork.

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Nothing would suggest the man who had collected the material for Psychopathia Sexualis.

money

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Pensioners at the complex have been collecting money to help the town's hospice appeal for the last two years.

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The trust fund now collects money from 125 million workers to pay benefits to 43 million people.

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They are carrying out directed interviews there, and will collect time and money budgets.

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The suit claims that the airlines, which collected the money , should refund it to consumers.

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Please collect counterfoils and money from your class members and send to Joan Daniels as soon as possible.

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There remained a faint possibility that Newley would try to identify the person who collected the money .

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Some bands are extremely keen to sign with a respected manager who insists on collecting the artist's money .

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If the manager collects the money , the artist may insist the manager sets up a completely separate bank account.

pension

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People who normally collect pensions and other benefits from there are advised to go to nearby sub-post offices.

rent

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Many of them do not even bother to collect rents .

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In regulated industries such as trucking and airlines, workers collected some of the rents that accrued from regulation.

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These councils do not collect their rents and have lost control of their rented housing stock.

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We could just sit back and collect rents from an ever-decreasing number of tenants.

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Council houses and flats are owned by the districts who maintain them and collect the rents .

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He too had abandoned Mayo, leaving an agent to manage the estate and collect the rents .

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When you invited me to stay here, I didn't realise you planned to collect the rent in kind.

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A VAT-registered landlord may have a managing agent to collect standard-rated rents .

sample

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A water quality officer interprets the information and can instruct Cyclops to collect a sample of the discharge in a sealed container.

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After he died physicians collected and froze samples of his blood and lymph nodes for future study.

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So one night I collected samples from all five and went home for a serious tasting.

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We have collected together a representative sample of these and present them here.

signature

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Liberal forces have already begun to collect the million signatures needed to call a popular vote.

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On April 29, Cahill temporarily blocked backers from collecting signatures to put the immigrant voting measure on the ballot.

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Members of its executive council have been collecting signatures in the border region.

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Supporters must collect enough signatures by Feb. 21 to qualify the initiative for the ballot.

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Andy Naughton-Doe, a chartered secretary, is collecting signatures to seek a conversion vote.

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In California, for example, Reform Party supporters collected 124, 117 signatures .

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The Bristol group collected the signatures of 46 international figures to sell for Amnesty funds.

tax

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His cadres collect taxes and impose justice.

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States collect taxes and subsume many of the responsibilities of governing from the county.

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The only government authorities that collect income tax at present are the republics and provinces.

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It will have promised its elderly more than it can collect in taxes from those who are working.

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The Revenue will have to collect tax from each individual partner.

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The treasurer collects local taxes and invests city money until it is needed.

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Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government.

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Services include making sure payments are collected and insurance and taxes are paid on loans that are packaged and resold to investors.

thought

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He barely had time to collect his thoughts before they were shown in.

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Laing pauses to collect his thoughts when considering what was perhaps the most difficult decision of his long career.

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I piped up in his defense, having had moments to collect my thoughts .

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Then, collecting her thoughts , shutting out all sound save that in her headset, she began to take down the message.

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He stopped for a few minutes in a small park to enjoy the scenery and collect his thoughts .

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He listened intently, trying to collect his thoughts away from the past of his dreams to the present of reality.

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Then he paused to collect his thoughts .

water

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He added that out of the 26 councils in Northumbria Water's area only five no longer wished to collect payments for water .

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These plants should be collected from the deepest water possible or form a shaded area such as under a bridge or pier.

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She collected firewood and carried water .

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Beneath each machine a wrought-iron pan was installed to collect the water , which contained carbonate of soda to prevent rust.

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In some cabinets this may be as simple as a tray beneath the cabinet, which collects the water .

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There were no drainage ditches here, the shoulders too abrupt, the slope too precipitous, to collect water .

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Settlement cracks go in various directions and result in a depression that collects water .

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The women return to their daily treks to distant rivers, springs or canals to collect polluted water .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

collected works/poems/essays/edition

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Box sets collect music into greatest hits, anthologies, chronologies, complete collected works, best-of and worst-of packages.

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He took down a copy of Wordsworth's collected poems.

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His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space.

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Its author Tom Holt began, if I remember right, by publishing his collected poems at the age of 12.

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Mr Zhivkov's 44-volume collected works has disappeared from Sofia's bookshops since he was removed.

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My collected works rendered the Horsehead Nebula, goofy space cruisers, robots, and Saturn.

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They were first printed by William Caxton in 1475; the collected works were first illustrated by William Thynne in 1532.

gather/collect/recover etc your wits

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He remained still and tried to gather his wits .

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I felt helpless, but tried to gather my wits .

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I tried to collect my wits for the arrival.

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It is gone even before the predator can gather its wits and make chase.

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She slowly gathered her wits , and looked round.

win/collect/take etc the wooden spoon

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When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so, avoiding touching him at all costs.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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A crowd was starting to collect outside the theatre to await the arrival of the prime minister.

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After 25 years of collecting recipes, Barber has compiled them into a cookbook.

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An hour or so before the press conference, a crowd begin to collect outside the building.

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Anyone who collects jazz records should buy this book. It's full of information on old recordings.

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As the tide came in, water collected to form small pools among the rocks.

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He's been collecting signatures of voters to get the measure on the ballot.

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Her father sent a taxi to collect her from the hotel.

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Historians are skilled in collecting facts and interpreting them.

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I'm at the station. Can you come and collect me?

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I've been collecting samples of the different types of rock which occur in this area.

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I've come to collect Mr. Weinstein's order.

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I've got a parcel to collect from the post office.

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If condensation collects on the inside of the window, wipe it off with a clean cloth.

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If the last bus has left, I'll collect you.

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Nigel's hobby is collecting rare books.

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Organizers have already collected 650 signatures.

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People who are collecting welfare checks usually really need them.

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Rain collecting at the tip of the rock has formed huge icicles.

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Rent is collected once a month.

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The building uses solar panels for collecting the sun's heat.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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I had duly collected Nigel's ashes.

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I joked that I had to go and collect my $ 40,000 appearance money.

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Profit fell because the company was unable to collect claims against the oil buffer fund.

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That would have allowed them to collect nearly $ 2 in federal funds for each local dollar.

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The next day, the parents took the children into the woods to collect wood; each got one piece of bread.

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They collected the garbage like their jobs depended on it, cheaper and better.

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They feed by collecting tiny particles from the water.

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You collect interest of 1.13% a month when you're in credit.

II. adverb

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

call collect

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He has been calling collect on the telephone, begging her to visit.