English Dictionary

collect

IPA（発音記号）

/kəˈlɛkt/

動詞

他動詞 古語 自動詞 車両・運転者

(transitive) To gather together; amass. / (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.

日本語の意味

（何かを）集める、収集する / （お金などを）徴収する、取り立てる

The researcher will collect the samples from each site next week.

研究者は来週、各地点からサンプルを集める予定です。

意味（1）

(transitive) To gather together; amass.

Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.

意味（2）

(transitive) 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.

意味（3）

(transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

John Henry collects stamps.

意味（4）

(transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)

[…] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.

意味（5）

(intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.

He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.

The rain collected in puddles.

意味（7）

(transitive) To infer; to conclude.

Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.

意味（8）

(transitive, of a vehicle or driver) 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.

collects （ present singular third-person ）

collecting （ participle present ）

collected （ participle past ）

collected （ past ）