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Aggregate vs. Collect — What's the Difference?

Aggregate vs. Collect — What's the Difference?

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Aggregate

A whole formed by combining several separate elements
The council was an aggregate of three regional assemblies

Collect

The collect ( KOL-ekt) is a short general prayer of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy. Collects appear in the liturgies of Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian churches, among others (in those of Eastern Christianity the Greek term [déesis] synapté is often used instead of the Latin term [oratio] collecta, both having the same meaning).

Aggregate

A material or structure formed from a mass of fragments or particles loosely compacted together
The specimen is an aggregate of rock and mineral fragments

Collect

Bring or gather together (a number of things)
He went round the office collecting old coffee cups

Aggregate

Formed or calculated by the combination of several separate elements; total
The aggregate amount of grants made
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Collect

Call for and take away; fetch
The children were collected from school

Aggregate

Form or group into a class or cluster
Socio-occupational groups aggregate men sharing similar kinds of occupation
The butterflies aggregate in dense groups

Collect

Regain control of oneself, typically after a shock
He paused for a moment to take a breath, to collect himself

Aggregate

Constituting or amounting to a whole; total
Aggregate sales in that market.

Collect

Conclude; infer
By all best conjectures, I collect Thou art to be my fatal enemy

Aggregate

(Botany) Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.

Collect

Cause (a horse) to bring its hind legs further forward as it moves
A rider should want to be able to collect a horse when hacking

Aggregate

Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.

Collect

Collide with
He lost control of the truck and collected two cats

Aggregate

A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount
"An empire is the aggregate of many states under one common head" (Edmund Burke).

Collect

(with reference to a telephone call) to be paid for by the person receiving it
I called my mother collect

Aggregate

The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.

Collect

(with reference to a telephone call) to be paid for by the person receiving it
I called my mother collect

Aggregate

To gather into a mass, sum, or whole
Aggregated the donations into one bank account.

Collect

A winning bet.

Aggregate

To amount to; total
Revenues will aggregate more than one million dollars.

Collect

(in church use) a short prayer, especially one assigned to a particular day or season.

Aggregate

To collect (content from different sources on the internet) into one webpage or newsreader.

Collect

To bring together in a group or mass; gather
The teacher collected the exams.

Aggregate

To come together or collect in a mass or whole
"Some [bacteria]aggregate so closely as to mimic a multicellular organism" (Gina Kolata). "The first stars began to form when hydrogen and helium gas left over from the Big Bang aggregated into dense clouds" (Paul Davies).

Collect

To accumulate as a hobby or for study
Collect old coins.
Collect folk tales.

Aggregate

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.

Collect

To call for and obtain payment of
Collect taxes.

Aggregate

A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

Collect

To be the site for (an accumulating mass), especially as a consequence of disuse or neglect
My guitar is collecting dust in the corner.

Aggregate

A set collection of objects.

Collect

To recover control of
Collect one's emotions.

Aggregate

(music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.

Collect

To call for (someone); pick up
Collected the children and drove home.

Aggregate

(sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.

Collect

To come together in a group or mass; gather
Sand collected in the crevices.

Aggregate

(roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.

Collect

To take in payments or donations
Collecting for charity.

Aggregate

Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.

Collect

With payment to be made by the receiver
Called collect.
A collect phone call.

Aggregate

(Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.

Collect

A brief formal prayer that is used in various Western liturgies before the epistle and that varies with the day.

Aggregate

A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.

Collect

(transitive) To gather together; amass.
Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.

Aggregate

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.

Collect

(transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan.
A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.

Aggregate

Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.

Collect

(transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
John Henry collects stamps.
I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
My friend from school has started to collects mangas and novels recently

Aggregate

Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
Aggregate glands

Collect

To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)

Aggregate

(botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

Collect

To collect payments.
He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.

Aggregate

Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

Collect

(intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
The rain collected in puddles.

Aggregate

United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.

Collect

(transitive) To infer; to conclude.

Aggregate

(transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
The aggregated soil.

Collect

To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.

Aggregate

To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.

Collect

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.

Aggregate

(transitive) To amount in the aggregate to.
There are ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.

Collect

With payment due from the recipient.
I had to call collect.

Aggregate

To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."

Collect

(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.

Aggregate

To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
It is many times hard to discern to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated.

Collect

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
A band of menCollected choicely from each country.
'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect.

Aggregate

To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.

Collect

To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

Aggregate

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
The aggregate testimony of many hundreds.

Collect

To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.

Aggregate

Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.

Collect

To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

Aggregate

Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

Collect

To infer; to conclude.
Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.

Aggregate

Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

Collect

A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse.

Aggregate

United into a common organized mass; - said of certain compound animals.

Collect

A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

Aggregate

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

Collect

Get or gather together;
I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis
She rolled up a small fortune

Aggregate

A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; - in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

Collect

Call for and obtain payment of;
We collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts
He collected the rent

Aggregate

A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

Collect

Assemble or get together;
Gather some stones
Pull your thoughts together

Aggregate

The whole amount

Collect

Get or bring together;
Accumulate evidence

Aggregate

Amount in the aggregate to

Collect

Gather or collect;
You can get the results on Monday
She picked up the children at the day care center
They pick up our trash twice a week

Aggregate

Gather in a mass, sum, or whole

Collect

Payment due by the recipient on delivery;
A collect call
The letter came collect
A COD parcel

Aggregate

Gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole;
Aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year
The aggregated amount of indebtedness

Collect

Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays;
Call collect
Send a package collect

Aggregate

Formed of separate units in a cluster;
Raspberries are aggregate fruits

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