Bag vs Collect - What's the difference?
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A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
(label) A handbag
A suitcase.
A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
One’s preference.
(label) An ugly woman.
(label) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(label) First, second, or third base.
(label) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(label) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
A scrotum.
(label) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
To put into a bag.
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
(label) To furnish or load with a bag.
* Dryden
To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
To laugh uncontrollably.
To criticise sarcastically.
(label) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To swell or hang down like a full bag.
To swell with arrogance.
To become pregnant.
To gather together; amass.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To get; particularly, get from someone.
To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare (gather), (get).)
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 292-3:
* John Locke
To collect payments.
To come together in a group or mass.
To collect objects as a hobby.
To infer; to conclude.
* South
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
With payment due from the recipient.
(en noun) (sometimes capitalized)
(Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
Bag is a related term of collect.
As nouns the difference between bag and collect
is that bag is a flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc while collect is (christianity) the prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the book of common prayer.As verbs the difference between bag and collect
is that bag is to put into a bag while collect is to gather together; amass.As an adjective collect is
to be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.As an adverb collect is
with payment due from the recipient.bag
English
(wikipedia bag)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (flexible container) poke (obsolete), sack, tote * (handbag) handbag, purse (US) * (preference) cup of tea, thing * (ugly woman) dog, hag * (in mathematics) multisetHyponyms
* (flexible container) bindleVerb
(bagg)- (Chaucer)
Derived terms
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* Korean:Anagrams
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) collecten, from (etyl) .Verb
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- the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
- which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected .
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
Adjective
(-)- It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
Adverb
(-)- I had to call collect .
Derived terms
* call collect * collect one's thoughts * collect one's wits * collect up * collectible * collection * collector * recollect, recollectionEtymology 2
(Wikipedia) From (etyl) .Noun
- He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.