Collect vs. Accrue — What's the Difference?

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).

To come to one as a gain, addition, or increment

Bring or gather together (a number of things)

To increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth

Call for and take away; fetch

To come into existence as a claim that is legally enforceable.

Regain control of oneself, typically after a shock

To accumulate over time

Conclude; infer

(intransitive) To increase, to rise

Cause (a horse) to bring its hind legs further forward as it moves

(intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.

Collide with

To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.

(with reference to a telephone call) to be paid for by the person receiving it

(transitive) To accumulate.

(with reference to a telephone call) to be paid for by the person receiving it

To become an enforceable and permanent right.

A winning bet.

(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

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

To increase; to augment.

To bring together in a group or mass; gather

To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.

To accumulate as a hobby or for study

Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

To call for and obtain payment of

Grow by addition;

To be the site for (an accumulating mass), especially as a consequence of disuse or neglect

Come into the possession of;

To recover control of

To call for (someone); pick up

To come together in a group or mass; gather

To take in payments or donations

With payment to be made by the receiver

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

(transitive) To gather together; amass.

(transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.

(transitive) 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.)

To collect payments.

(intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.

(transitive) To infer; to conclude.

To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

With payment due from the recipient.

(Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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

To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.

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

To infer; to conclude.

A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

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

Get or gather together;

Call for and obtain payment of;

Assemble or get together;

Get or bring together;

Gather or collect;

Payment due by the recipient on delivery;

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