Nghĩa là gì: collect

collect /kə'lekt/

ngoại động từ
- tập hợp lại
- (thông tục) đến lấy, đi lấy, thu lượm, thu thập, góp nhặt, sưu tầm
  - to collect news: lượm tin
  - to collect taxes: thu thuế
  - to collect letters: lấy thư
  - to collect stamps: sưu tầm tem
- tập trung (tư tưởng...)
  - to collect oneself: trấn tĩnh, bình tĩnh lại
- suy ra, rút ra
  - I collect from your words that...: qua những lời anh nói tôi suy ra là...

nội động từ
- tập hợp, tụ hợp lại
- dồn lại, ứ lại, đọng lại
  - rabbish collect: rác ứ lại

re collect Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

collect my thoughts

think calmly and clearly, organize my thoughts She was glad when the kids left so she could collect her thoughts.

collecting dust

not used for a long time, idle, gathering dust """Where's the silver tray?"" ""On the shelf, collecting dust."""

bill collecta

drug dealer

take up a collection

Idiom(s): take up a collection

Theme: COLLECT

to collect money for a specific project.
• We wanted to send Bill some flowers, so we took up a collection.
• The office staff took up a collection to pay for the office party.

Collect dust

If something is collecting dust, it isn't being used any more.

collective farm|collective|farm

n. A large government-run farm made by combining many small farms. The Russian farmers used to live on collective farms.

collector's item|collector|item

n. Something rare or valuable enough to collect or save. Jimmy's mother found an old wooden doll in the attic that turned out to be a collector's item.

collected

collected
see cool, calm, and collected.

collector's item

collector's item
An object of great interest, value, or rarity, as in This necklace is a collector's item. Originating in the early 1900s as collector's piece, a usage still common in Britain, the term in its present form is occasionally transferred to persons as well, as in The Beach Boys became a collector's item on the tour. [c. 1930]

cool, calm, and collected

cool, calm, and collected
Calm and composed, self-possessed. For example, No matter what the board decides, you have to appear cool, calm, and collected in front of the stockholders. This alliterative synonym for cool as a cucumber dates from the late 1800s.

recollect (oneself)

To bethink or become acquainted of one's purpose, intention, or situation, abnormally afterwards a cursory interruption, diversion, or distraction; to become recomposed. The protestor's chants threw the presentation into anarchy for a moment, but the apostle anon recollected himself and agitated on as before. She appeared to alluvion off into anticipation center through her story, afore recollecting herself and acrimonious up area she larboard off.Learn more: recollect

re-collect (oneself)

To become composed again, abnormally afterwards one has been abashed or confused.

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