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Collect vs. Gather
Collect
/kəˈlekt/Examples:
Then he collected the coffee cups and withdrew.Aramis seemed, for a moment, as if he were collecting himself.'Can you make this a collect call, operator?...
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Gather
/ˈɡaðə/Examples:
Even Julia hardly gathered the full import of it.Everything else in life is just gathering information.A crowd gathered around the woman with the broken hand.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Collect usually implies bringing things together in an organized or systematic way.
- Gather often suggests bringing things together without much concern for organization.
- When you collect, there may be an intent or reason to accumulate items, like stamps or data.
- Gather can also suggest physically bringing people or items together at a place.
- Collect often implies ownership, while gather does not always mean you own or keep what you are gathering.
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