collect
/kəˈlɛkt/ verbo A1En español: juntar, recoger, recabar, recolectar
- To gather together; amass. · Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.· The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
- To get; particularly, get from someone. · A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
- To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. · John Henry collects stamps.· I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
- To pick up or fetch · Can you collect me from the airport?
- To collect payments. · He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
- To come together in a group or mass. · The rain collected in puddles.
- To infer; to conclude.
- To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle). · The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
Plural collect · He/she/it collects · Pasado collected · Participio pasado collected · Forma en -ing collecting
Formas del verbo
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
- collecting
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable.
THE ANTS were spending a fine winter’s day drying grain collected in the summertime.
I’ll go and see.” During her absence Matthew collected his scattered senses for another effort.
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