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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (transitive) To gather together; amass.
- (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
- (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
- (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
- (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
- (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
- (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
- (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
Adjektiivit
- To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
Adverbit
- With payment due from the recipient.
Substantiivit
- (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
Esimerkit
- Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
- Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
- A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
- John Henry collects stamps.
- the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
- [...] which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
- He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
- The rain collected in puddles.
- I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
- It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
- I had to call collect.
- He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
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