Collect vs Pick_up - 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).)
* 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.
(lb) To lift; to grasp and raise.
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To collect an object, especially in passing.
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*:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal."
To clean up; to return to an organized state.
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*1967 , (Beverly Cleary), (Mitch and Amy) , 2009 edition, ISBN 9780688108069, p.28:
*:The floor was strewn with bright snips of origami paper, a crumpled drawing, and one dirty sock, which Amy now shoved under the bed with her foot. ¶ "You're lucky," said Marla. "My mother makes me pick up my room every single day."
(lb) To collect a passenger.
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(lb) To collect and detain (a suspect).
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(lb) To improve, increase or speed up.
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(lb) To restart or resume.
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*2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, AV Club
*:Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
(lb) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand.
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(lb) To receive (a radio signal or the like).
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To notice, detect or discern, often used with "on".
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(lb) To point out (a person's behaviour, habits or actions) in a critical manner.
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To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
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To answer a telephone. See pick up the phone.
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To pay for.
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To reduce the despondency of.
*1973 (released 1974), (Lynard Skynyrd), (Sweet Home Alabama)
*:they pick' me ' up when I'm feeling blue
To take control (physically) of something.
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, title= (lb) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
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, title= To record, to notch up.
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Collect is a related term of pick_up.
As verbs the difference between collect and pick_up
is that collect is to gather together; amass while pick_up is (lb) to lift; to grasp and raise.As nouns the difference between collect and pick_up
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 pick_up is .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
(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=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.}}
- 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 wordspick_up
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Verb
The Dark Knight Rises
Chelsea 1-0 Bolton, passage=Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.}}
Cardiff 0-2 Stoke, passage=And soon after, no-one picked up Shotton who was free to power a 12-yard header over from another Pennant corner, before Pennant sent a free kick straight at Cardiff keeper Tom Heaton.}}
Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos, passage=And the home side survived without any late scares to pick up the first win of their Group F campaign.}}