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# collect

«collect» in Mova's school dictionary: **to gather things together into one place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (collect, collects, collected, collecting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To collect is to gather things together into one place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#m1)

2) To collect things as a hobby is to keep many things of one kind, like stamps, shells or cards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#m2)

3) To collect someone is to go and pick them up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#m3)

4) To collect money is to ask people for it and get it, like for a charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: things gathered and added; often a rate per day (total = rate × days); science: collect data, collect leaves or rainwater; school: collect the books, collect money for a charity; everyday life: collect a child from school, collect the rubbish; phrases: «collect up», «collect your thoughts»

### examples

- He collects 5 shells a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#x1)
- She collects stamps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#x2)
- The class collected 300 cans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#x3)
- How many does he collect in a week? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#x4)
- Dad collects me from school at 3 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#x5)
- We collect rainwater in a barrel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#x6)
- Please collect the pencils at the end of the lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#x7)
- They collect money for the animal shelter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#x8)
- Newell, who is collecting the English folk-tales that still remain current in New England. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/#x9)

### note

Collecting adds; a rate per day gives a product. Trap: what is collected may later be given away. A week has 7 days, so 5 a day for a week is 35. A collection is what you collect.

### In the corpora

- [Bailiffs can collect money owed only after a court decision and many warnings, under strict rules, and cannot take essentials.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/20/)
- [People designed AI, collected its text, built its computers and trained it, so people are responsible for it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/17/)
- [Photos posted publicly can be collected and used to make fakes; you may ask family not to post yours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people/10/)
- [Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where dust and water collect, and a long taproot finds water deep down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/9/)
- [Fizzy drinks are full of carbon dioxide gas, which collects in the stomach and comes back up as a burp.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «collect» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collect/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.