Collect

1. v. t. A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
2. v. t. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
3. v. t. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
4. v. t. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
5. v. i. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
6. v. i. To infer; to conclude.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.