Usually means: Gather items or information together.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word collect:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. collect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. collect, collect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collect, collect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Collect, collect: Wordnik
  7. collect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. collect: Wiktionary
  9. collect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. collect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. collect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Collect, collect, collect: Dictionary.com
  13. collect: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. collect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Collect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Collect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. collect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. collect: Rhymezone
  19. collect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. collect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. collect: Free Dictionary
  22. collect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. collect: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. collect: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. collect: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collect: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collect: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COLLECT: Acronym Finder
  2. collect: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Collect: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collect: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. collect, collect: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. collect: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Collect: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To gather together; amass.
verb:  (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
verb:  (transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
verb:  (transitive) To pick up or fetch [someone, in a vehicle]
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
verb:  (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
verb:  (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
verb:  (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
verb:  (transitive, of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
adjective:  To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
adverb:  With payment due from the recipient.
noun:  (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

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