Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 84
Collaterally (adv.) In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.
Collaterally (adv.) In collateral relation; not lineally.
Collateralness (n.) The state of being collateral.
Collation (n.) 校對；零食，點心；（齋日的）夜點 The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general.
Collation (n.) (Print.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
Collation (n.) The act of conferring or bestowing. [Obs.]
Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. -- Bacon.
Collation (n.) A conference. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Collation (n.) (Eccl. Law) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
Collation (n.) (Law) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
Collation (n.) (Law) The report of the act made by the proper officers.
Collation (n.) (Scots Law) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
Note: This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana. -- Bouvier.
Collation (n.) (Eccles.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
Collation (n.) A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries.
A collation of wine and sweetmeats. -- Whiston.
{Collation of seals} (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine. -- Bouvier.
Collation (v. i.) To partake of a collation. [Obs.]
May 20, 1658, I . . . collationed in Spring Garden. -- Evelyn.
Collation (n.) A light informal meal [syn: {bite}, {collation}, {snack}].
Collation (n.) Assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence.
Collation (n.) Careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement.
Collation (n.) (Meal) [ C ] (Formal) 便餐，小吃；（尤指）自助餐 A meal, especially one left ready for people to serve themselves.
Collation (n.) (Collating) [ C or U ] 校勘；整理 The act or an example of collating.
Collationer (n.) One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc.
Collatitious (a.) Brought together; contributed; done by contributions.
Collative (a.) Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.
Collator (n.) One who collates manuscripts, books, etc.
Collator (n.) One who collates to a benefice.
Collator (n.) One who confers any benefit.
Collaud (v. t.) To join in praising.
Colleague (n.) A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.
Colleague (v.t & i.) To unite or associate with another or with others.
Colleagueship (n.) Partnership in office.
Collected (imp. & p. p.) of Collect.
Collecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collect.
Collect (v. t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
Collect (v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
Collect (v. t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Collect (v. i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
Collect (v. i.) To infer; to conclude.
Collect (v. t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
Collect (v.) (As a hobby) （作為愛好）收藏，收集 (A2) [ T ] To get and keep things of one type such as stamps or coins as a hobby.
// She collects dolls.
// So when did you start collecting antique glass?
Collect (v.) (Get) (A2) [ T ] (Mainly UK) 取，領取；接走 To go to a place and bring someone or something away from it.
// Your shoes will be repaired and ready for you to collect on Thursday.
// I'll collect you from the station.
Collect (v.) (Bring together) (B1) [ T ] （使）聚集，（使）集合，（使）集中 To bring something together from different places or over a period of time.
// After the party I collected (up) bottles from various parts of the house.
// These china ornaments just collect dust.
Collect (v.) (Control) Collect yourself/ your thoughts (C2) (Formal) （尤指在震驚、驚訝或大笑後）鎮定下來，定神，集中思想 To get control of your feelings and thoughts, especially after shock, surprise, or laughter.
// I was so stunned by what he'd said I had to collect myself before I could reply.
Collect (n.) [ C ]（某些基督教儀式上的）短禱文 A short prayer that is said during some Christian religious ceremonies.
Collect (a. , adv.) (US) 對方付通話費（的） When you call collect or make a collect phone call, the person you call pays for the call.
// I'd like to make a collect call.
// She called me collect.
Collectanea (v. t.) Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
Collected (a.) Gathered together.
Collected (a.) Self-possessed; calm; composed.
Collectedly (adv.) Composedly; coolly.
Collectedness (n.) A collected state of the mind; self-possession.
Collectible (a.) Capable of being collected.
Collection (n.) The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
Collection (n.) That which is collected
Collection (n.) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
Collection (n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
Collection (n.) That which is obtained in payment of demands.
Collection (n.) An accumulation of any substance.
Collection (n.) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
Collection (n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Collection (n.) (Things together) (B1) [ C ] 收藏品；收集物 A group of objects of one type that have been collected by one person or in one place.
// A private art collection.
// A valuable stamp collection.
Collection (n.) (Things together) [ C ] 募集的錢；捐的款；募捐的錢 An amount of money collected from several people, or the act of collecting money.
// We're having a collection for Tom's retirement present.
Collection (n.) (Things together) (B1) [ C ] 一堆（東西）；一群（人） A lot of things or people.
// There's quite a collection of toothbrushes in the bathroom.
Collection (n.) (Things together) [ C ] （某位服裝設計師的）一系列新裝作 A range of new clothes produced by one clothes designer.
// Kenzo's summer/ winter collection.
Collection (n.) (Getting) (B2) [ C or U ] 領取；收取；拿走 The act of taking something away from a place.
// The photos will be ready for collection on Tuesday afternoon.
// Which day is the rubbish collection?
// (UK) There are three collections a day from the post box on the corner.
Collectional (a.) Of or pertaining to collecting.
Collective (a.) Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
Collective (a.) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
Collective (a.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
Collective (a.) Tending to collect; forming a collection.
Collective (a.) Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
Collective (n.) A collective noun or name.
Collective (a.) [ Before noun ] 集體的；共同的 Of or shared by every member of a group of people.
// A collective decision/ effort.
// Collective responsibility/ leadership.
Collective (n.) [ C ] 聯合組織；企業集團；集體企業 An organization or business that is owned and controlled by the people who work in it.
Collectively (adv.) 全體地；共同地 In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
Collectiveness (n.) A state of union; mass.
Collectivism (n.) 集體主義 The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
Collectivist (n.) 集產主義者 An advocate of collectivism.
Collectivist (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, collectivism.
Collector (n.) 收藏家；徵收者 One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
Collector (n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
Collector (n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
Collector (n.) One authorized to collect debts.
Collector (n.) A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Collector (n.) [ C ] (Hobby) (B2) 收集者；收藏者；收藏家 Someone who collects objects because they are beautiful, valuable, or interesting.
// A keen stamp/ antiques collector.
// A collector of modern art.
Collector (n.) [ C ] (Job) 檢票員；收款人；討債人 Someone whose job is to collect tickets or money from people.
Examples:
A tax/ ticket collector.
Collectorate (n.) The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
Collectorship (n.) The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
Collegatary (n.) A joint legatee.
College (n.) A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
College (n.) A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.
College (n.) A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
College (n.) Fig.: A community.
College (n.) (Education) [ C or U ] (US) （大學）校園，校區 A university where you can study for an undergraduate (= first) degree.
// I met my husband when we were in college.
// They want their kids to go to (= study at) college.
// A college student/ professor/ graduate.
College (n.) (Education) (A2) [ C or U ] 學院；職業學校；技術學校；高等專科學校 Any place for specialized education after the age of 16 where people study or train to get knowledge and/or skills.
// A teacher training college.
// A secretarial college.
// A Naval college.
// She's at art college.
// (UK) A sixth form college.
College (n.) (Education) [ C ] （大學的）學院，分院 One of the separate and named parts into which some universities are divided.
// King's College, Cambridge.
// I attended the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University.
// Cambridge has some very fine old colleges (= college buildings).
College (n.) (Education) [ C ] 公學，學校（用於英國和澳大利亞某些私立學校的名稱） In Britain and Australia, used in the names of some schools for children, especially private schools (= where education is paid for by parents).
// Cheltenham Ladies' College.
College (n.) (Group) 學會，社團，協會 [ C ] A group of people with a particular job, purpose, duty, or power who are organized into a group for sharing ideas, making decisions, etc.
// The Royal College of Medicine/Nursing.
Collegial (n.) Collegiate.
Collegian (n.) A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.
Collegian (n.) A student (or former student) at a college or university [syn: {collegian}, {college man}, {college boy}].
Collegiate (a.) Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. -- Johnson.
{Collegiate church}. (a) A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of New York.
Collegiate (n.) A member of a college. -- Burton.
Collegiate (a.) Of or resembling or typical of a college or college students; "collegiate living"; "collegiate attitudes"; "collegiate clothes" [syn: {collegiate}, {collegial}].
Collegiate (a.) 大學的，學院的；大學生的 Of or belonging to a college or its students.
// A collegiate theatre.
// Collegiate sports.
Collegiate (a.) (UK) 下設學院的，由學院組成的 Formed of colleges.
// Oxford and Cambridge are both collegiate universities.
Collembola (n. pl.) (Zool.) The division of Thysanura which includes {Podura}, and allied forms.
Collembola (n.) Minute wingless arthropods: springtails [syn: {Collembola}, {order Collembola}].
Collenchyma (n.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.
Colet , Collet (n.) An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See {Acolyte}. Coletit
Collet (n.) A small collar or neckband. -- Foxe.
Collet (n.) (Mech.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.
Collet (n.) (Jewelry) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.
Collet (n.) (Jewelry) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of {Brilliant}.
How full the collet with his jewel is! -- Cowley.
Collet (n.) A metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting [syn: {ferrule}, {collet}].
Collet (n.) A cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a lathe [syn: {collet}, {collet chuck}].
Collet (n.) A band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry setting.
Colleterial (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. -- R. Owen.
Colleterium (n.) (Zool.) An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.
Colletic (a.) Agglutinant. -- n. An agglutinant.
Colletic (n.) An agglutinant.
Colley (n.) See {Collie}.
Collide (v. i.) 碰撞，互撞，抵觸 To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. -- Tyndall.
No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. -- Carlyle.
Collide (v. t.) To strike or dash against. [Obs.]
Collide (v.) Be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: {clash}, {jar}, {collide}].
Collide (v.) Cause to collide; "The physicists collided the particles".
Collide (v.) Crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed" [syn: {collide}, {clash}].
Collide (v.) [ I ] (Especially of moving objects) （尤指移動的物體）相撞，碰撞 To hit something violently.
// The two vans collided at the crossroads.
// It was predicted that a comet would collide with one of the planets.
Collidine (n.) One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.
Collie (n.) (Zool.) The Scotch shepherd dog. There are two breeds, the rough-haired and smooth-haired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks. [Written also {colly}, {colley}.]
Collied (p. & a.) Darkened. See Colly, v. t.
Collier (n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
Collier (n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.
Collieries (n. pl. ) of Colliery.
Colliery (n.) The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
Colliery (n.) The coal trade.
Colliflower (n.) See Cauliflower.
Colligated (imp. & p. p.) of Colligate.
Colligating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Colligate.
Colligate (v. t.) 綁；【邏】概括 To tie or bind together.
The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. -- Nicholson.
Colligate (v. t.) (Logic.) To bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful . . . phenomena. -- Tundall.
Colligate (v.) (Used with object) ( Colligated, colligating) 綁 To bind or fasten together.
Colligate (v.) (Used with object) ( Colligated, colligating) (Logic.) 【邏】概括 To link (facts) together by a general description or by a hypothesis that applies to them all.