Word Meanings - COLLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone

Additional info about word: COLLECT

together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts. 2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes. 3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. Shak. Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. Locke. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLLECT)

• Accumulate
• Collect
• gamer
• grow
• mass
• heap
• store
• bring together
• hoard
• gather
• agglomerate
• husband
• augment
• amass
• increase
• accumulate
• aggregate
• store up
• pile up
• Assemble
• Gather
• collect
• congregate
• muster
• call together
• convoke
• convene
• Drew
• Concoct
• compound
• mix
• hatch
• prepare
• season
• threaten
• impend
• form
• Centralize
• Concentrate
• fix
• localize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COLLECT)

• Resolve
• analyze
• Dismiss
• disperse
• relegate
• remit
• disband

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  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
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