- collect your thoughts
- to spend a short time thinking before making a decision or forming an opinion
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collect your thoughts — phrase to spend a short time thinking before making a decision or forming an opinion Thesaurus: to form an opinion, or to have an ideasynonym Main entry: collect … Useful english dictionary
collect — col|lect1 W2S1 [kəˈlekt] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(bring together)¦ 2¦(keep objects)¦ 3¦(rent/debts/taxes)¦ 4¦(money to help people)¦ 5¦(increase in amount)¦ 6¦(win something)¦ 7 collect yourself/collect your thoughts 8¦(take somebody/something from a place)¦ … Dictionary of contemporary English
collect — [[t]kəle̱kt[/t]] ♦♦ collects, collecting, collected 1) VERB If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people. [V n] Two young girls were collecting firewood... [V n] Elizabeth had been… … English dictionary
collect one's thoughts — If you collect your thoughts, you try to think calmly and clearly in order to prepare yourself mentally for something. Anne stopped to collect her thoughts before calling back the customer … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
collect — I UK [kəˈlekt] / US verb Word forms collect : present tense I/you/we/they collect he/she/it collects present participle collecting past tense collected past participle collected *** 1) [transitive] to get things and keep them together for a… … English dictionary
collect — 1 verb 1 BRING TOGETHER (T) to get things of the same type from different places and bring them together: Researchers spent 6 months collecting facts and figures. | Could you collect some branches for a fire? 2 KEEP OBJECTS (T) to get and keep… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
collect*/*/*/ — [kəˈlekt] verb 1) [T] to get things and keep them together for a particular reason A lot of families collect newspapers for recycling.[/ex] 2) [T] to get and keep objects because they are interesting or valuable I didn t know she collected modern … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
collect — I col•lect [[t]kəˈlɛkt[/t]] v. t. 1) to gather together; assemble 2) to make a collection of: to collect stamps[/ex] 3) to demand and receive payment of 4) to regain control of (oneself or one s thoughts or emotions) 5) to call for and take with… … From formal English to slang
Collect — This article is about the Christian prayer. For the telecommunications concept, see collect call. For the hobby, see collecting. For other uses, see Collection (disambiguation). In Christian liturgy, a collect (stressed on the first syllable:… … Wikipedia
Collect for Purity — The Collect for Purity is the name traditionally given to the collect prayed near the beginning of the Eucharist in most Anglican rites. It was originally drafted in Latin for the Sarum missal and was part of the preparation prayers of priests… … Wikipedia
