Pick vs. Collect — What's the Difference?

Detach and remove (a flower, fruit, or vegetable) from where it is growing

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).

Choose (someone or something) from a number of alternatives

Bring or gather together (a number of things)

Repeatedly pull at something with one's fingers

Call for and take away; fetch

Pluck the strings of (a guitar or banjo)

Regain control of oneself, typically after a shock

An act or the right of selecting something from a number of alternatives

Conclude; infer

An act of blocking or screening a defensive player from the ball handler.

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

A tool consisting of a long handle set at right angles in the middle of a curved iron or steel bar with a point at one end and a chisel edge or point at the other, used for breaking up hard ground or rock.

Collide with

An instrument for picking

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

To select from a group

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

To gather in; harvest

A winning bet.

To gather the harvest from

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

To remove the outer covering of; pluck

To bring together in a group or mass; gather

To tear off bit by bit

To accumulate as a hobby or for study

To remove extraneous matter from (the teeth, for example).

To call for and obtain payment of

To poke and pull at (something) with the fingers.

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

To break up, separate, or detach by means of a sharp pointed instrument.

To recover control of

To pierce or make (a hole) with a sharp pointed instrument.

To call for (someone); pick up

To take up (food) with the beak; peck

To come together in a group or mass; gather

To steal the contents of

To take in payments or donations

To open (a lock) without the use of a key.

With payment to be made by the receiver

To provoke

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

To pluck (an instrument's strings).

(transitive) To gather together; amass.

To play (an instrument) by plucking its strings.

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

To play (a tune) in this manner

(transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

To decide with care or forethought.

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

To work with a pick.

To collect payments.

To find fault or make petty criticisms; carp

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

To be harvested or gathered

(transitive) To infer; to conclude.

To throw (a shuttle) across a loom.

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

The act of picking, especially with a sharp pointed instrument.

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

The act of selecting or choosing; choice

With payment due from the recipient.

Something selected as the most desirable; the best or choicest part

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

The amount or quantity of a crop that is picked by hand.

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

(Sports) An interception of a pass.

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

(Basketball) A screen.

To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.

A tool for breaking hard surfaces, consisting of a curved bar sharpened at both ends and fitted to a long handle.

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

Something, such as an ice pick, toothpick, or picklock, used for picking.

To infer; to conclude.

A long-toothed comb, usually designed for use on curly hair.

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

A pointed projection on the front of the blade of a figure skate.

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

(Music) A plectrum.

Get or gather together;

A weft thread in weaving.

Call for and obtain payment of;

A passage or throw of the shuttle in a loom.

Assemble or get together;

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

Get or bring together;

A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.

Gather or collect;

A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.

Payment due by the recipient on delivery;

A choice; ability to choose.

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

That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.

(music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

An anchor.

(basketball) A screen.

(lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

(American football) An interception.

(baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.

(baseball) A pickoff.

A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

(obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.

That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

(weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.

(AU) Pasture; feed, for animals.

To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.

To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.

To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.

To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.

(transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.

(cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.

(music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.

To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.

To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

To steal; to pilfer.

(obsolete) To throw; to pitch.

(dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

(ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

(basketball) To screen.

To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.

To throw; to pitch.

To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

To open (a lock) as by a wire.

To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.

To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; - often with out.

To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; - often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.

To trim.

To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

To steal; to pilfer.

A sharp-pointed tool for picking; - often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.

A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, - used for digging ino the ground by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick; in cat breeding, the owner of a stud gets the pick of the litter.

That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.

A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.

That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

The blow which drives the shuttle, - the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute;

The person or thing chosen or selected;

The quantity of a crop that is harvested;

The best people or things in a group;

The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

A small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

A thin sharp implement used for picking;

A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends;

A basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body;

The act of choosing or selecting;

Select carefully from a group;

Look for and gather;

Harass with constant criticism;

Provoke;

Remove in small bits;

Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits;

Pilfer or rob;

Pay for something;

Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion;

Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example;

Hit lightly with a picking motion

Eat intermittently; take small bites of;