collect

1. A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England (synset 107204293)
   is a type of: orison, petition, prayer - reverent petition to a deity

1. Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays (synset 400255274)
   "call collect"; "send a package collect"

1. Payable by the recipient on delivery (synset 300137816)
   "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
   similar to: due - owed and payable immediately or on demand
   same as: cod

1. Get or gather together (synset 202309962)
   "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
   is a type of: hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store - keep or lay aside for future use
   subtypes:

   • run up - pile up (debts or scores)
   • corral - collect or gather
   • collect, pull in - get or bring together
   • come up, scrape, scrape up, scratch - gather (money or other resources) together over time
   • chunk, lump - put together indiscriminately
   • bale - make into a bale
   • catch - take in and retain
   • fund - accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability
   • fund - place or store up in a fund for accumulation
   same as: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up
2. Call for and obtain payment of (synset 202222955)
   "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
   is a type of: take - take into one's possession
   subtypes:

   • farm - collect fees or profits
   • raise - collect funds for a specific purpose
   same as: take in
3. Assemble or get together (synset 201383303)
   "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
   subtypes:

   • marshal, mobilise, mobilize, summon - make ready for action or use
   • rake - gather with a rake
   • glean, harvest, reap - gather, as of natural products
   • club - gather into a club-like mass
   • hive - gather into a hive
   • salvage, scavenge - collect discarded material
   • come up, muster, muster up, rally, summon - gather or bring together
   • round up - seek out and bring together
   • cull, pick, pluck - look for and gather
   • nut - gather nuts
   • snail - gather snails
   • bird-nest, birdnest - gather birdnests
   • nest - gather nests
   • oyster - gather oysters, dig oysters
   • sponge - gather sponges, in the ocean
   • pearl - gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
   • clam - gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
   • shock - collect or gather into shocks
   • heap up, pile up, stack up - arrange into piles or stacks
   same as: garner, gather, pull together
4. Get or bring together (synset 201387093)
   "accumulate evidence"
   is a type of: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up - get or gather together
   subtypes:

   • archive, file away - put into an archive
   • beat up, drum up, rally - gather
   same as: pull in
5. Gather or collect (synset 202310566)
   "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"
   is a type of: acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
   same as: call for, gather up, pick up

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