Collect and Meet

Collect

Collect verb - To come together into one body or place.
Usage example: a crowd collected at the beach as the sun slowly set over the horizon

Meet is a synonym for collect in assemble topic. In some cases you can use "Meet" instead a verb "Collect", when it comes to topics like gather, fetch, group, come together.

Meet

Meet verb - To come together into one body or place.
Usage example: we'll meet for dinner, with a discussion to follow, next week

Collect is a synonym for meet in gather topic. You can use "Collect" instead a verb "Meet", if it concerns topics such as group, assemble, convene.

Nearby Word: meeting

Common collocations

people collect people meet people
children collect children meet children
friends collect friends meet friends

Both words in one sentence

  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong When the Kingpin tries to collect the device from them, they flee, and in the ensuing flight, they activate the device, which ends up sending them back in time to 1907, where they meet a similar group of runaways, one of whom, Lillie Mc Gurty, hits it off with Victor.
  • Then another dwarf may try to collect the loot of both dwarfs, and meet the same demise.
  • And when he is killed and Satan comes to collect...the Emperor uses this power to meet Satan in combat and kills him dead, then goes on to conquer hell itself.
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