Meaning

9 senses
  1. (transitive)To gather together; amass.

    Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.

    The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.

    sammeln, aufsammeln, einsammeln

    собира́тьsobirátʹ, собра́тьsobrátʹ

    збира́тиzbyráty, зібра́тиzibráty

    get or gather together

  2. (transitive)To get; particularly, get from someone.

    A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.

    einsammeln, einziehen

    взима́тьvzimátʹ, инкасси́роватьinkassírovatʹ

    assemble or get together

  3. (transitive)To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

    John Henry collects stamps.

    I don't think he collects as much as hoards.

    sammeln, anhäufen

    коллекциони́роватьkollekcionírovatʹ

    колекціонува́тиkolekcionuváty

  4. (transitive)To pick up or fetch

    Can you collect me from the airport?

  5. (intransitive)To collect payments.

    He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.

    gather or collect

  6. (intransitive)To come together in a group or mass.

    The rain collected in puddles.

    sammeln

    get or bring together

  7. (transitive)To infer; to conclude.

    ableiten, folgern, schlussfolgern

  8. (transitive)To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

    The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.

  9. (archaic, transitive)To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)

Examples

747 sentences
  1. My hobby is collecting old bottles.

    Моє хобі — збирання старих пляшок.

    ruМоё хобби - коллекционирование старинных бутылок.

    deMein Hobby ist es, alte Flaschen zu sammeln.

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  2. I collect dolls from different countries.

    Я збираю ляльок з різних країн.

    ruЯ коллекционирую кукол из разных стран.

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  3. I collect stamps as a hobby.

    Я збираю марки в якості хобі.

    ruЯ собираю марки в качестве хобби.

    deIch sammle Briefmarken als Hobby.

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  4. His hobby is collecting strange butterflies.

    Його хобі - колекціонування незвичайних метеликів.

    ruЕго хобби - коллекционирование необычных бабочек.

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  5. My hobby is collecting old coins.

    Моє хоббі — колекціонувати старі монети.

    ruМоё хобби — собирать старинные монеты.

    deMein Hobby ist das Sammeln alter Münzen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to gather together:
to accumulate items for a hobby:
Русский
By meaning 3
to gather together:
to get from someone:
to accumulate items for a hobby:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to gather together:
to get from someone:
to accumulate items for a hobby:
to infer, conclude, form a conclusion:

Origin

From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin

From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).

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Forms

collects, collecting, collected, collected
Base formcollect · to collect
3rd person singularcollects
Present participlecollecting
Past simplecollected
Past participlecollected

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycollect
he, she, itcollects

Past simpleLesson

all personscollected

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave collected
he, she, ithas collected

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill collect

Synonyms

27 synonyms
to get from someone:receiveA2
to come together in a group or mass:groupB1
to infer, conclude, form a conclusion:assumeB1construe
to gather together:aggregate
to accumulate items for a hobby:amound
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • collecting stamps
  • hobby is collecting
  • collecting old coins
  • is collecting stamps
  • collecting old
  • is collecting old
  • collecting data

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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