Collect

(noun.) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England.

(verb.) get or bring together; 'accumulate evidence'.

(verb.) call for and obtain payment of; 'we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts'; 'he collected the rent'.

(verb.) gather or collect; 'You can get the results on Monday'; 'She picked up the children at the day care center'; 'They pick up our trash twice a week'.

(adj.) payable by the recipient on delivery; 'a collect call'; 'the letter came collect'; 'a COD parcel' .

(adv.) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; 'call collect'; 'send a package collect'.

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• The young girls of Nazareth still collect about it by the dozen and keep up a riotous laughter and sky-larking. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Dairymen collect milk over a radius of thirty or forty miles and get it to market fresh. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• That produce, after the rise in its real price, requires no more labour to collect it than before. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And here, Noah nodded his head expressively; and curled up as much of his small red nose as muscular action could collect together, for the occasion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Gradually the blade of the scythe was made lighter, the handle was lengthened, and fingers added to collect the grain and carry it to the end of the stroke. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I tried to collect my thoughts, but I was stunned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Only by sitting in a hot bath could he collect his mind to write. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In consequence of this law, when Memphis was occupied the provost-marshal had forcibly collected all the evidences he could obtain of such debts. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I collected, too, quite a large scrap-book of it, but unfortunately have lost it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• These Italians were also very mannered and matched manners with the two we had collected before. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I was very much pleased with what I collected to have been your behaviour on the occasion; it shewed a discretion highly to be commended. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• How cool and collected you look when everybody else is frightened! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The rest of the party were now returning, and all were soon collected. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Then, collecting himself, he added in his usual tone, And what may it be your pleasure to want at so early an hour with the poor Jew? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But if carbon and zinc are used, a current is again produced, the zinc dissolving away as before, and bubbles collecting on the carbon plate. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The fancy runs from one end of the universe to the other in collecting those ideas, which belong to any subject. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Opening the grenades under water and collecting the gas that escaped it was found that the average amount of carbon dioxide contained was about one cubic inch per grenade. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Sir, said Mr. Helstone, collecting all his dignity--sir, the great knowledge of man is to know himself, and the bourne whither his own steps tend. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Thus we say that a man's interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or archaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I had expected some extravagant proposition, and remained silent awhile, collecting my thoughts that I might the better combat her fanciful scheme. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This causes a sound of very great power, which the trumpet collects and compresses, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound beam in the direction required. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These instances are in themselves totally distinct from each other, and have no union but in the mind, which observes them, and collects their ideas. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He must then pay for the licence to gather them, and must give up to the landlord a portion of what his labour either collects or produces. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The slaked lime, formed while the gas was generated, collects at the bottom of the tanks and is removed from time to time. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Then he collects his rent and leaves again. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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