Enforce vs Collect - What's the difference?
enforce | collect |
(obsolete) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
(obsolete) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
(obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.
*, Bk.VII:
*:I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love.
To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
:The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
(archaic) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
*, I.2.4.iv:
*:Uladislaus the Second, King of Poland, and Peter Dunnius, Earl of Shrinehad been hunting late, and were enforced to lodge in a poor cottage.
*1899 , E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.'', Great Uncle McCarthy :
*:In a few minutes I was stealthily groping my way down my own staircase, with a box of matches in my hand, enforced by scientific curiosity, but none the less armed with a stick.
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
:The police are there to enforce the law.
(obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
:to enforce a passage
*Spenser
*:enforcing furious way
(obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
*Shakespeare
*:As swift as stones / Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
(obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.
:to enforce arguments or requests
*Burke
*:enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity
(obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
*Shakespeare
*:Enforce him with his envy to the people.
To prove; to evince.
:(Hooker)
To gather together; amass.
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, 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.
As verbs the difference between enforce and collect
is that enforce is (obsolete|transitive) to strengthen (a castle, town etc) with extra troops, fortifications etc 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.As a noun 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.enforce
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Alternative forms
* inforce (obsolete)Verb
(enforc)Derived terms
* enforcer * enforcementcollect
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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.