collect in WordNet English dictionary

1. get or gather together
   "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"
   roll up  collect  accumulate  pile up  amass  compile  hoard 
   
2. 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"
   collect  pick up  gather up  call for 
   
3. assemble or get together
   "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
   gather  garner  collect  pull together 
   
4. get or bring together
   "accumulate evidence"
   collect  pull in 
   
5. call for and obtain payment of
   "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
   collect  take in 
   

1. payable by the recipient on delivery
   "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
   collect  cod 
   

1. a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
   collect 
   

1. make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays
   "call collect"; "send a package collect"
   collect  collect