Collect

Definition

collect 1 /kǝ'lekt/ v ၁။ ~ sth (up/together) စုသည္။ သိမ္းသည္။ collect (up) the empty glasses/dirty plates/waste paper ❍ collect together one's belongings ❍ information collected by satellite ❍ the collected works of Dickens (ie a series of books containing everything he wrote) ❍ No one uses the computer—it just sits there collecting dust. ၂။ စုသည္။ စုေဝးသည္။ A crowd soon collected at the scene of the accident. ❍ Dust had collected on the window-sill. ျပတင္းေပါက္ေဘာင္တြင္ ဖုန္တက္ေနသည္။ ၃။ ေကာက္ခံသည္။ We're collecting (money) for famine relief. ❍ The Internal Revenue is responsible for collecting income tax. ၄။ ( infml ) ရရိွသည္။ She collected first prize/a cheque for £1000. ၅။ စုေဆာင္းသည္။ collect stamps/old coins/matchboxes/first editions ❍ Record collecting can be an expensive pastime. ၆။ ( esp Brit ) သိမ္းသည္။ သြားႀကိဳသည္။ သြားယူသည္။ The dustmen collect the rubbish once a week. ❍ collect a child from school ❍ collect a suit from the cleaners. ၇။ စိတ္တည္ၿငိမ္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ ျပန္စဥ္းစားသည္။ collect oneself after a shock ❍ collect one's thoughts before an interview. adj , adv ( US ) တယ္လီဖုန္းအဆက္ခံရသူက ဆက္ခေပးရေသာ၊ အဆက္ခံရသူကို ဆက္ခေပးေစလ်က္။ a collect call ❍ call sb collect (ie transfer the charge). collect 2 /'kɒlekt/ n ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုရားရိွခိုးေက်ာင္း၌ ေန႔ရက္အလိုက္ ရြတ္ဆိုေသာ ဆုေတာင္းပတၳနာအတို။ ❏ collectable adj စုေဆာင္းထားသင့္ေသာ။ ❏ collected adj စိတ္တည္ၿငိမ္[ေသာ]။ ဣေႁႏၵရ[ေသာ]။ She always stays cool, calm and collected in a crisis.

Examples

1. A lot of families collect newspapers for recycling.
2. He collects stamps.
3. I didn’t know she collected modern art.
4. It’s a good idea to collect rainwater for use in the garden.
5. The statistics are collected purely for administrative purposes.
6. Evidence collected by the police
7. What time do you collect the kids from school?
8. When can I come and collect the keys?
9. The rubbish is collected every Tuesday.
10. Someone came to collect the rent.
11. They give up their spare time to collect for various charities.
12. He’s old enough to collect his pension.
13. The victim collected £10
14. 000 in compensation.
15. She ran well
16. but failed to collect a medal.
17. With flat roofs
18. you often find that rain collects in the corners.