collect in English: To bring things together in one place, or to go and get something. (verb)

Translation

To bring things together in one place, or to go and get something.

Word origin

From Latin colligere, meaning to gather together.

Verb typeregular (collect, collects, collected)

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If you collect things you keep getting more of them.

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"Collect someone" means to go and fetch them.

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Here they asked many people to give a little.

pick

To take one thing from a group with your fingers, or to choose it.

group

A number of people or things that are together or belong with each other.

together

With each other, as a group, in the same place at the same time.

keep

To have or hold something and not let it go, or to make something stay the same.

get

To receive or obtain something, or to become a certain way.

collection

A group of things kept together, or the act of collecting something.

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