| collect | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. collect | a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England. |
| ~ orison, petition, prayer | reverent petition to a deity. |
| v. (possession) | 2. accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| ~ run up | pile up (debts or scores). |
| ~ corral | collect or gather.; "corralling votes for an election" |
| ~ collect, pull in | get or bring together.; "accumulate evidence" |
| ~ scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up | gather (money or other resources) together over time.; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" |
| ~ chunk, lump | put together indiscriminately.; "lump together all the applicants" |
| ~ bale | make into a bale.; "bale hay" |
| ~ catch | take in and retain.; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater" |
| ~ fund | accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability.; "fund a medical care plan" |
| ~ fund | place or store up in a fund for accumulation. |
| ~ hive away, lay in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, put in | keep or lay aside for future use.; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" |
| v. (possession) | 3. collect, take in | call for and obtain payment of.; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" |
| ~ take | take into one's possession.; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" |
| ~ farm | collect fees or profits. |
| ~ raise | collect funds for a specific purpose.; "The President raised several million dollars for his college" |
| v. (contact) | 4. collect, garner, gather, pull together | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| ~ mobilize, marshal, mobilise, summon | make ready for action or use.; "marshal resources" |
| ~ rake | gather with a rake.; "rake leaves" |
| ~ glean, harvest, reap | gather, as of natural products.; "harvest the grapes" |
| ~ club | gather into a club-like mass.; "club hair" |
| ~ hive | gather into a hive.; "The beekeeper hived the swarm" |
| ~ salvage, scavenge | collect discarded or refused material.; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" |
| ~ muster, muster up, rally, summon, come up | gather or bring together.; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" |
| ~ round up | seek out and bring together.; "round up some loyal followers" |
| ~ cull, pick, pluck | look for and gather.; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" |
| ~ nut | gather nuts. |
| ~ snail | gather snails.; "We went snailing in the summer" |
| ~ bird-nest, birdnest | gather birdnests.; "They went birdnesting in the early morning" |
| ~ nest | gather nests. |
| ~ oyster | gather oysters, dig oysters. |
| ~ sponge | gather sponges, in the ocean. |
| ~ pearl | gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean. |
| ~ clam | gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean. |
| ~ shock | collect or gather into shocks.; "shock grain" |
| ~ heap up, stack up, pile up | arrange into piles or stacks.; "She piled up her books in my living room" |
| v. (contact) | 5. collect, pull in | get or bring together.; "accumulate evidence" |
| ~ archive, file away | put into an archive. |
| ~ drum up, rally, beat up | gather.; "drum up support" |
| ~ accumulate, collect, compile, amass, hoard, roll up, pile up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| v. (possession) | 6. call for, collect, gather up, pick up | gather or collect.; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week" |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| adj. | 7. cod, collect | payable by the recipient on delivery.; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" |
| ~ due | owed and payable immediately or on demand.; "payment is due" |
| adv. | 8. collect | make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays.; "call collect"; "send a package collect" |
| compile | | |
| v. (creation) | 1. compile, compose | put together out of existing material.; "compile a list" |
| ~ cobble together, cobble up | put together hastily. |
| ~ anthologise, anthologize | compile an anthology. |
| ~ catalog, catalogue | make a catalogue, compile a catalogue.; "She spends her weekends cataloguing" |
| ~ make | make by shaping or bringing together constituents.; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones" |
| v. (creation) | 2. compile | use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed. |
| ~ make | make by shaping or bringing together constituents.; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones" |
| gather | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. gather, gathering | sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching. |
| ~ stitchery, sewing | needlework on which you are working with needle and thread.; "she put her sewing back in the basket" |
| n. (act) | 2. gather, gathering | the act of gathering something. |
| ~ assembling, collecting, aggregation, collection | the act of gathering something together. |
| ~ centralisation, centralization | gathering to a center. |
| ~ harvest home, harvesting, harvest | the gathering of a ripened crop. |
| v. (social) | 3. assemble, foregather, forgather, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| ~ aggroup, group | form a group or group together. |
| ~ meet | meet by design; be present at the arrival of.; "Can you meet me at the train station?" |
| ~ encounter, meet, run across, come across, run into, see | come together.; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" |
| ~ congregate | come together, usually for a purpose.; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve" |
| ~ hive | move together in a hive or as if in a hive.; "The bee swarms are hiving" |
| ~ fort, fort up | gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense. |
| ~ convene | meet formally.; "The council convened last week" |
| ~ cluster, clump, constellate, flock | come together as in a cluster or flock.; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
| ~ crowd together, crowd | to gather together in large numbers.; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" |
| ~ converge | move or draw together at a certain location.; "The crowd converged on the movie star" |
| ~ interact | act together or towards others or with others.; "He should interact more with his colleagues" |
| ~ turn out | come and gather for a public event.; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York" |
| ~ caucus | meet to select a candidate or promote a policy. |
| ~ club | gather and spend time together.; "They always club together" |
| v. (change) | 4. accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up | collect or gather.; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
| ~ backlog | accumulate and create a backlog. |
| ~ accrete | grow or become attached by accretion.; "The story accreted emotion" |
| ~ drift | be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current.; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow" |
| v. (communication) | 5. gather | conclude from evidence.; "I gather you have not done your homework" |
| ~ conclude, reason, reason out | decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion.; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" |
| v. (contact) | 6. gather, pucker, tuck | draw together into folds or puckers. |
| ~ sew, sew together, stitch, run up | fasten by sewing; do needlework. |
| v. (social) | 7. assemble, gather, get together | get people together.; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| ~ make | form by assembling individuals or constituents.; "Make a quorum" |
| v. (contact) | 8. gather | draw and bring closer.; "she gathered her shawl around her shoulders" |
| ~ pull | apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion.; "Pull the rope"; "Pull the handle towards you"; "pull the string gently"; "pull the trigger of the gun"; "pull your knees towards your chin" |
| v. (contact) | 9. gather | look for (food) in nature.; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall" |
| ~ look for, search, seek | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" |
| ~ shell | look for and collect shells by the seashore. |
| v. (change) | 10. gain, gather | increase or develop.; "the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed" |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
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