collect

1. (transitive) To gather together; amass.Examples: "Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out."; "The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall."; "Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame."Synonyms: aggregatetransitive

2. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.Examples: "A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house."; "The EPA collects emissions data from more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the country and has even developed its own state-of-the-art tool — the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model — to estimate the impact of toxic emissions on human health."Synonyms: receivetransitive

3. (transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.Examples: "John Henry collects stamps."; "I don't think he collects as much as hoards."; "My friend from school has started to collects mangas and novels recently"Synonyms: amoundtransitive

4. (transitive) To pick up or fetch [someone, in a vehicle]Examples: "Can you collect me from the airport?"transitive

5. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)Examples: "[…] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected."; "From the latter passages we may collect, that the expression "he that cometh" was, with the Jews, a kind of title distinguishing the Messiah"; "'I collect,' said Miss Crawford, 'that Sotherton is an old place, and a place of some grandeur. In any particular style of building?'"archaictransitive

6. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.Examples: "He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made."intransitive