Collect vs Contract - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between collect and contract

is that collect is to infer; to conclude while contract is to gain or acquire (an illness).

As verbs the difference between collect and contract

is that collect is to gather together; amass while contract is (ambitransitive) to draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

As adjectives the difference between collect and contract

is that collect is to be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment while contract is (obsolete) contracted; affianced; betrothed.

As nouns the difference between collect and contract

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 contract is an agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

As an adverb collect

is with payment due from the recipient.

collect

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) collecten, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To gather together; amass.

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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:

the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.

* John Locke

which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected .

To collect payments.

To come together in a group or mass.

To collect objects as a hobby.

To infer; to conclude.

* South

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

Adjective

(-)

To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.

Adverb

(-)

With payment due from the recipient.

I had to call collect .

Derived terms

* call collect * collect one's thoughts * collect one's wits * collect up * collectible * collection * collector * recollect, recollection

Etymology 2

(Wikipedia) From (etyl) .

Noun

(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.

He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.

External links

* * * 1000 English basic words

contract

English

(wikipedia contract)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) contract, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of .

Noun

(en noun)

An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

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(legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.

(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

Hypernyms

* (agreement that is legally binding) agreement

Hyponyms

* (agreement that is legally binding) bailment

Derived terms

* contractual * fixed-term contract * contract of employment

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

* Robert Recorde, , 1557:

But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Ab?tracte'': and other called nombers ''Contracte .

Etymology 2

From (etyl), from (etyl) contracter, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of . the verb developed after the noun, and originally meant only "draw together"; the sense "make a contract with" developed later.

Verb

(en verb)

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

The snail's body contracted into its shell.

to contract one's sphere of action

* Wordsworth

Years contracting to a moment.

* Dr. H. More

In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.

(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".

To enter into a contract with. (rfex)

To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

* Hakluyt

We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and league with the aforesaid queen.

* Strype

Many persons prohibited by law.

To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

to contract for carrying the mail

To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.

to contract a debt

* Alexander Pope

Each from each contract new strength and light.

* Jonathan Swift

Such behaviour we contract by having much conversed with persons of high stature.

To gain or acquire (an illness).

* 1999 , Davidson C. Umeh, Protect Your Life: A Health Handbook for Law Enforcement Professionals (page 69)

An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

* Shakespeare

Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.

To betroth; to affiance.

* Shakespeare

The truth is, she and I, long since contracted , / Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.

Synonyms

* (lessen) abate, decrease, lessen, reduce * (shorten) shorten, shrink * catch, get

Antonyms

* (lessen) increase, expand * (shorten) grow, lengthen