Demand vs Collect - What's the difference?

Demand is a related term of collect.

As nouns the difference between demand and collect

is that demand is the desire to purchase goods and services 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 demand and collect

is that demand is to request forcefully 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.

demand

English

Alternative forms

* demaund, demaunde (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

The desire to purchase goods and services.

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(economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.

A need.

A claim for something.

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A requirement.

An urgent request.

An order.

(electricity supply) A measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.

Usage notes

One can also make demands on someone. * See for uses and meaning of demand collocated with these words.

Synonyms

* (a requirement) imposition

Derived terms

* demand-driven * in demand * on demand

Verb

(en verb)

To request forcefully.

To claim a right to something.

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To ask forcefully for information.

To require of someone.

(legal) To issue a summons to court.

Synonyms

* * (ask strongly)

Anagrams

* * English control verbs English reporting verbs

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