collect
part of speech
verb (collect, collects, collected, collecting)
meaning for a pupil
1) To collect is to gather things together into one place. tree →
2) To collect things as a hobby is to keep many things of one kind, like stamps, shells or cards. tree →
3) To collect someone is to go and pick them up. tree →
4) To collect money is to ask people for it and get it, like for a charity. tree →
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 →
- She collects stamps. tree →
- The class collected 300 cans. tree →
- How many does he collect in a week? tree →
- Dad collects me from school at 3 o'clock. tree →
- We collect rainwater in a barrel. tree →
- Please collect the pencils at the end of the lesson. tree →
- They collect money for the animal shelter. tree →
- Newell, who is collecting the English folk-tales that still remain current in New England. tree →
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.
- People designed AI, collected its text, built its computers and trained it, so people are responsible for it.
- Photos posted publicly can be collected and used to make fakes; you may ask family not to post yours.
- Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where dust and water collect, and a long taproot finds water deep down.
- Fizzy drinks are full of carbon dioxide gas, which collects in the stomach and comes back up as a burp.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «collect» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.