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
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
Stephen Fry
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
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
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. Milne
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
My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
Manfred von Richthofen
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Tse-Tung
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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