Definition of Collect

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Collect

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.

To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

To infer; to conclude.

A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

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Collect Quotations

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Tse-Tung

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
Chief Joseph

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.
Mick Jagger

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
Dana Carvey

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Christopher Columbus

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.
Bill Parcells

Collect Translations

collect in Afrikaans is versamel, bymekaarbring
collect in Danish is samle
collect in Dutch is inzamelen, innen, collecteren
collect in French is recueillir, recuellir, recueillez, encaisser
collect in German is zusammenfassen, zusammenfassen, sammeln
collect in Italian is incassare, raccogliere, ritirare
collect in Latin is compello, lego
collect in Portuguese is colete, colher
collect in Spanish is cobrar, coleccionar, cobrar
collect in Swedish is indriva, inkassera, samla, samla, ansamla, insamla

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