Definitions for collects

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collects col·lect

Spelling: [kuh-lekt]

IPA: /kəˈlɛkt/

Collects is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in collects (ccellost).

Definitions for collects

noun

1. any of certain brief prayers used in Western churches especially before the epistle in the communion service.

adjective, adverb

1. requiring payment by the recipient:

verb (used with object)

1. to gather together; assemble:
2. to accumulate; make a collection of:
3. to receive or compel payment of:
4. to regain control of (oneself or one's thoughts, faculties, composure, or the like):
5. to call for and take with one:
6. Manège. to bring (a horse) into a collected attitude.
7. Archaic. to infer.

verb (used without object)

1. to gather together; assemble:
2. to accumulate:
3. to receive payment (often followed by on):
4. to gather or bring together books, stamps, coins, etc., usually as a hobby:
5. Manège. (of a horse) to come into a collected attitude.

Origin of collects

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin collēctus (past participle of colligere to collect), equivalent to col- col-¹ + leg- (stem of legere to gather) + -tus

Examples for collects

I beg you, sir, to collect your spirits, and to listen to me calmly.

In order to break the spell and bear children, they must collect four items from the mysterious woods.

They give you a lot of trouble to collect, and nobody else will trouble to listen.

How a car would be sent to collect him and he would be taken somewhere.

It is a fortunate grocer who is able to collect 80 per cent.

When I was young, I loved to dig and find and collect fossils.

He closed them slowly for a moment, as if to collect his routed thoughts.

Divide the mixture evenly among the crème brûlée dishes, including any juices that collect.

That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes.

Then the gift card is shopped online in a gray market to collect cold currency.