Collect vs Keep - What's the difference?
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To gather together; amass.
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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).)
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* John Locke
To collect payments.
To come together in a group or mass.
To collect objects as a hobby.
To infer; to conclude.
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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.
To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to maintain.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Both day and night did we keep company.
*(Tobias Smollett) (1721–1771)
*:within the portal as I kept my watch
To hold the status of something.
#To maintain possession of.
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#To maintain the condition of.
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#(lb) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
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#(lb) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
#(label) To remain in, to be confined to.
#*1605 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , III.ii,
#*:The wrathful skies / Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves.
#To restrain.
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# To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
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#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.viii:
#*:cursse on thy cruell hond, / That twise hath sped; yet shall it not thee keepe / From the third brunt of this my fatall brond.
#To supply with necessities and financially support a person.
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#(lb) To raise; to care for.
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#*1914 , Robert Joos, Success with Hens , Forbes & company, p.217:
#*:Of course boys are boys and need watching, but there is little watching necessary when they keep chickens.
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#To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:like a pedant that keeps a school
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#*:They were honourably brought to London, where every one of them kept house by himself.
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#*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
#To have habitually in stock for sale.
To hold or be held in a state.
#(lb) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
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#*:Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps .
#To continue.
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#*:If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep .
#(lb) To remain in a state.
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(lb) To wait for, keep watch for.
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*:And thenne whan the damoysel knewe certaynly that he was not syre launcelot / thenne she took her leue and departed from hym / And thenne syre Trystram rode pryuely vnto the posterne where kepte hym la beale Isoud / and there she made hym good chere and thanked god of his good spede
To act as wicket-keeper.
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To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:Keep that the lusts choke not the word of God that is in us.
To be in session; to take place.
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(lb) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
*Bible, iv. 7
*:I have kept the faith.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Him whom to love is to obey, and keep / His great command.
To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
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To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
* (1579-1625)
*:'Tis hallowed ground; / Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep .
(obsolete) Care, notice
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*:So Sir Gareth strayned hym so that his olde wounde braste ayen on bledynge; but he was hote and corragyous and toke no kepe , but with his grete forse he strake downe the knyght.
(historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to , the word comes "from the Middle English term kype , meaning basket or cask, and was a term applied to the shell keep at Guînes, said to resemble a barrel".)
The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
:He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep .
The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
*Spenser
*:Pan, thou god of shepherds all, / Which of our tender lambkins takest keep .
The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
:to be in good keep
(obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
*Spenser
*:Often he used of his keep / A sacrifice to bring.
(engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
As verbs the difference between collect and keep
is that collect is to gather together; amass while keep is to continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to maintain.As nouns the difference between collect and keep
is that 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 while keep is (obsolete) care, notice.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.collect
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.
External links
* * * 1000 English basic wordskeep
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