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Synonyms
col·lect1 (kə-lĕkt́)

[Middle English collecten, from Latin colligere, collēct-, com-, com-, + legere, to gather.]

verb: -lect·ed, -lect·ing, -lects. 

transitive verb 

  1. To bring together in a group or mass; gather.
  2. To accumulate as a hobby or for study.
  3. To call for and obtain payment of: collect taxes.
  4. To recover control of: collect one's emotions.
  5. To call for (someone); pick up: collected the children and drove home.

intransitive verb 

  1. To come together in a group or mass; gather. See synonyms at gather
  2. To take in payments or donations: collecting for charity.

adverb adjective 

With payment to be made by the receiver: called collect; a collect phone call.
col·lect2 (kŏĺĭkt, -ĕkt́)

[Middle English collecte, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collēcta short for (ōrātiō ad) collēctam, (prayer at the) gathering, from Latin collēctus, gathered past participle of colligere, to gather; see collect1.]

noun 

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