Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to collect
Participle: collected
Gerund: collecting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | collect |
| you | collect |
| he;she;it | collects |
| we | collect |
| you | collect |
| they | collect |
Perfect
| I | have collected |
| you | have collected |
| he;she;it | has collected |
| we | have collected |
| you | have collected |
| they | have collected |
Past
| I | collected |
| you | collected |
| he;she;it | collected |
| we | collected |
| you | collected |
| they | collected |
Pluperfect
| I | had collected |
| you | had collected |
| he;she;it | had collected |
| we | had collected |
| you | had collected |
| they | had collected |
Future
| I | will collect |
| you | will collect |
| he;she;it | will collect |
| we | will collect |
| you | will collect |
| they | will collect |
Future Perfect
| I | will have collected |
| you | will have collected |
| he;she;it | will have collected |
| we | will have collected |
| you | will have collected |
| they | will have collected |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | collect |
| you | collect |
| he;she;it | collect |
| we | collect |
| you | collect |
| they | collect |
Perfect
| I | have collected |
| you | have collected |
| he;she;it | have collected |
| we | have collected |
| you | have collected |
| they | have collected |
Imperfect
| I | collected |
| you | collected |
| he;she;it | collected |
| we | collected |
| you | collected |
| they | collected |
Pluperfect
| I | had collected |
| you | had collected |
| he;she;it | had collected |
| we | had collected |
| you | had collected |
| they | had collected |
Conditional
Present
| I | would collect |
| you | would collect |
| he;she;it | would collect |
| we | would collect |
| you | would collect |
| they | would collect |
Perfect
| I | would have collected |
| you | would have collected |
| he;she;it | would have collected |
| we | would have collected |
| you | would have collected |
| they | would have collected |
Imperative
| you | collect |
| we | Let's collect |
| you | collect |
Verbs conjugated like 'collect'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'collect'
allect,
callet,
complect,
confect,
conject,
connect,
convect,
correct,
recollect,
adlect,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to come together as a group
- assemble, begather, congregate, congress, fall in with, flock, forgather, gather, gather up, group, herd, league, mass, meet, meet up, pack, team, team up, throng
- accumulate
- pick, compile, pile, raise, amass, aggregate
- gather
- meet, convoke, muster, assemble, flock, convene, troop
- harvest
- raise, secure, reap, glean, obtain, solicit
- settle
- negotiate, receive, handle, manage, dun, bill
Antonyms
- to scatter in different directions
- assemble, round up, disperse
- accumulate
- scatter, disperse, divide, dissipate
- gather
- distribute, disperse, disseminate, dispense
- settle
- disturb, disorder, disorganize, disarrange
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1573 (trans.), from O.Fr.
collecter (1371), from L.
collectus, pp. of
colligere "gather together," from
com- "together" +
legere "to gather." The intrans. sense is attested from 1794.
Collection "group of things gathered together" is from 1460; as "money gathered for charitable or religious purposes" it is attested from 1535. As an adj. meaning "paid by the recipient" it is attested from 1893, originally with ref. to telegrams.
2. 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”).
Verbs referencing "collect"
Valencian
collir.
Sample Sentences
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We lay there seven hours, to deliver and exchange the mails. At length, having collected all our bags and all our passengers (including two or three choice spirits, who, having indulged too freely in oysters and champagne, were found lying insensible on their backs in unfrequented [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] standing on the wharf at this place, watching the passengers embarking in a steamboat which preceded that whose coming we awaited, and participating in the anxiety with which a sergeant 's wife was collecting her few goods together—keeping one distracted eye hard upon the porters, who were hurrying them on board, and the other on a hoopless washing-tub for which, as being the most utterly worthless of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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CHAPTER XVII The Freeman’s Defence There was a gentle bustle at the Quaker house, as the afternoon drew to a close. Rachel Halliday moved quietly to and fro, collecting from her household stores such needments as could be arranged in the smallest compass, for the wanderers who were to go forth that night. The afternoon shadows stretched eastward, and the round red [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] news that I have read of myself, than by any printed news that I have ever read in my present state of existence. Thus, the vigour and perseverance with which I have for some months past been collecting materials for, and hammering away at, a new book on America has much astonished me; seeing that all that time my declaration has been perfectly well known to my publishers on both sides of the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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In a few moments, the frenzy fit seemed to pass off; she rose slowly, and seemed to collect herself.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[ 1 ] This poem does not appear in the collected works of William Cullen Bryant, nor in the collected poems of his brother, John Howard Bryant. It was probably copied from a newspaper or magazine. ~~~ The longest way must have its close,—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Mrs. Shelby, with characteristic energy, applied herself to the work of straightening the entangled web of affairs; and she and George were for some time occupied with collecting and examining accounts, selling property and settling debts; for Mrs. Shelby was determined that everything should be brought into tangible and recognizable shape, let the consequences to her prove [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Proof of you stealing from Thompson Realty Group. I 've been collecting statements
(Stepmom from Hell)