Collects is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COLLECTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• COLLECT, to bring together in a group
• bring or gather together (a number of things)
• come together and form a group
• systematically seek and acquire (items of a particular kind) as a hobby
• accumulate over a period of time
• call for and take away; fetch
• call for and obtain (payments) from a number of people
• go somewhere and receive (something) as a right or award
• ask for and receive (charitable donations)
• regain control of oneself, typically after a shock
• conclude; infer
• cause (a horse) to bring its hind legs further forward as it moves
• collide with
• concentrate (one's thoughts)
NOUN:
• a winning bet.
• (in church use) a short prayer, especially one assigned to a particular day or season.
ADVERB:
• (with reference to a telephone call) to be paid for by the person receiving it

Words related to COLLECTS

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How to use COLLECTS in a sentence

• She collects together her jewels and all the valuables she can find, and sends them to the Turkish general as a present, and favorable terms are secured.
• It was to teach us this that the special services, lessons, collects, epistles, and gospels of this week were chosen.
• Surely a government that collects its own revenues should never want funds to pay its agents and officers.
• The weak and feeble conscience of man under such temptations, commonly gathers and collects a false consequence.
• Herodotus, who collects with so much pains the strange and unusual customs of the various nations whom he visits, is evidently quite ignorant of any such monstrous practice.
• The expelled swarm first collects, and then in a close body, to preserve its integrity, flies away in quest of a home for itself.
• In the second, it is valid only as a pledge, to collect as much as he can, and to pay what he collects to the Government collector, or the troops he commands.
• The weight at which they receive the tribute is what he who collects it wishes, and he never selects the lightest.
• The cells burst and the fat collects itself on the surface of the water.
• Some reference has also been made to injury done through ice, where it collects in low places in land.
• For example, if a man of his own mind and intelligence collects some elements and combines them, a living being will not be brought into existence since the system is unnatural.
• On the southern portion of this impregnable site and grouped about a point where nearly the whole drainage of the mesa top collects, are found the village remains.
• It is a heat former, and a producer of vital energy, both in the human subject, and in the industrious little insect which collects the luscious fodder.
• A wire is introduced which collects the electricity produced, and directs it toward a lantern.
• Here six basins, one above another, in which the water collects, check its course, and permit it to flow thence only as a partially filtered and moderated stream.
• The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics collects and publishes the statistics of our foreign commerce.
• It collects statistics of fish and fisheries of the whole country.
• A large basin cut in the floor collects the water from two springs.
• After the action is over, the captain collects all the heads that he has received, puts them into bowls, and causes them to be presented to the chief of the army.
• The palm-oil he collects in small quantities from his subjects, in the neighbourhood of the Calabar, and other small rivers that fall into it.
• This it is which collects so many folks on the road of royal processions.
• As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village.
• She collects servants as other people collect prints or old china or Sheffield plate.
• During this period, any oil that might have remained mixed with the water separates and collects on the surface.
• Democracy dissolves communities into individuals and collects them again into mobs.
• The necks, in which the cream collects, are graduated to tell when the operation is complete.
• The nitro-glycerine, of course, collects upon the surface, and can be drawn off by a tap placed at a convenient height for the purpose.

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