Collect - English meaning

verb

(of a benefit or sum of money) be received by someone in regular or increasing amounts over time.

Usage examples:

Financial benefits will accrue from restructuring

verb

To increase over a period of time, or to get an amount of something gradually over time

Usage examples:

[ i ] interest on this savings account accrues at the rate of 4 percent.

verb

To increase in amount over a period of time

Usage examples:

Interest accruing at 18% or more a year can quickly drain your future purchasing power., by the tim…

verb

Gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.

Usage examples:

Investigators have yet to accumulate enough evidence

verb

To collect a large number of things over a long period of time

Usage examples:

As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes., the co…

verb

To gradually increase in number or amount

Usage examples:

A thick layer of dust had accumulated in the room., if you don't go through the papers on your desk…

verb

Gather together or accumulate (a large amount or number of material or things) over a period of time.

Usage examples:

He amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds

verb

To gather a large amount of something, esp. money, by collecting it over a period of time

Usage examples:

By the time he was 40, he had amassed a fortune.

verb

To get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period

Usage examples:

He has amassed a huge fortune from his invention., we have amassed a large amount of information.

verb

(of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose.

Usage examples:

A crowd had assembled outside the gates

noun

A leap in which the feet are brought together before landing.

Usage examples:

The assemblés porté traveled a great distance and ended in perfect fifth position.

verb

Create by putting components or members together

verb

Gather together and combine.

Usage examples:

The systems cumulate data over a period of years

noun

An igneous rock formed by gravitational settling of particles in a magma.

Usage examples:

They appear to have formed from cumulates in the root of a magma chamber

verb

To collect a large amount of something over a period of time by gradually adding more

Usage examples:

The system has the ability to cumulate data over a number of years., they have cumulated debts of o…

verb

Go for and then bring back (someone or something) for someone.

Usage examples:

He ran to fetch help

noun

The distance travelled by wind or waves across open water.

Usage examples:

Wave disturbance was estimated by measuring the fetch for wave height on maps as the width of the r…

noun

The apparition or double of a living person, formerly believed to be a warning of that person's impending death.

Usage examples:

I saw a fetch who looked like me

verb

Gather or collect (something, especially information or approval).

Usage examples:

The police struggled to garner sufficient evidence

noun

A granary.

Usage examples:

The upper floor also contains garners for storing unmalted and malted grain.

verb

To get or earn something valuable or respected, often with difficulty

Usage examples:

Coppola garnered several oscars for his movie, "the godfather."

verb

Come together; assemble or accumulate.

Usage examples:

As soon as a crowd gathered, the police came

noun

A part of a garment that is gathered.

Usage examples:

This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combinati…

verb

Assemble or get together

noun

A stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded.

Usage examples:

He came back to rescue his little hoard of gold

verb

Accumulate (money or valued objects) and hide or store away.

Usage examples:

Thousands of antiques hoarded by a compulsive collector

verb

To collect a large supply of something, more than you need now, often because you think you will not be able to get it later

Usage examples:

Many people hoarded food in wartime.

verb

Become or make greater in size, amount, or degree.

Usage examples:

Car use is increasing at an alarming rate

noun

A rise in the size, amount, or degree of something.

Usage examples:

An increase of 28.3 per cent

verb

A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous

noun

A large body of matter with no definite shape.

Usage examples:

The sun broke out from behind a mass of clouds

adjective

Involving or affecting large numbers of people or things.

Usage examples:

The film has mass appeal

verb

Assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass.

Usage examples:

Both countries began massing troops in the region

verb

Arrange or happen to come into the presence or company of (someone).

Usage examples:

A week later i met him in the street

noun

A gathering of riders and hounds before a hunt begins.

Usage examples:

She fell from her horse during a weekend meet

adjective

Suitable or proper.

Usage examples:

It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour

verb

Obtain from (a number) another which contains the first number a specified number of times.

Usage examples:

Multiply fourteen by nineteen

adverb

In several different ways or respects.

Usage examples:

Multiply injured patients

verb

To add a number to itself a particular number of times

Usage examples:

[ t ] if you multiply 7 by 15 you get 105., [ i ] the viruses multiply within the body.

idiom

To get control of your emotions or actions after being very upset

Usage examples:

I blew my nose and tried to pull myself together., bradford pulled together a group of experts to h…

phrasal verb

To work closely together to achieve something

Usage examples:

We can survive this crisis as long as we all pull together., if you can pull together sufficient fu…

verb

Return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.

Usage examples:

Neil is still recovering from shock

noun

A defined position of a firearm forming part of a military drill.

Usage examples:

Bring the firelock to the recover

verb

To get better after an illness or a period of difficulty or trouble

Usage examples:

[ i ] it took her a while to recover after the operation., [ t ] the police recovered her handbag, …

verb

Keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger.

Usage examples:

They brought him in to help save the club from bankruptcy

noun

(in soccer and hockey) an act of preventing an opponent's scoring.

Usage examples:

The keeper made a great save

preposition

Other than; except for.

Usage examples:

No one needed to know save herself

idiom

To stop experiencing something unpleasant or stop behaving in a negative way

Usage examples:

I was depressed, and i couldn't snap out of it., johnson has finally snapped out of a four-week hit…

noun

A ball of packed snow, especially one made for throwing at other people for fun.

Usage examples:

They pelted him with snowballs

verb

Throw snowballs at.

Usage examples:

I made sure the other kids stopped snowballing celia

noun

Snow pressed into a ball

Usage examples:

Public support for military action has snowballed.

noun

A large accumulated stock of goods or materials, especially one held in reserve for use at a time of shortage or other emergency.

Usage examples:

A stockpile of sandbags was being prepared

verb

Accumulate a large stock of (goods or materials).

Usage examples:

He claimed that the weapons were being stockpiled

noun

A large amount of goods kept ready for future use

Usage examples:

A stockpile of wheat, she stockpiled chocolate bars in her car.