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Definition: Collect |
CollectAdjective1. Payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel". Adverb1. Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect". Noun1. A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England. Verb1. Get together. 2. Call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts". 3. Assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together". 4. Get or bring together; "accumulate evidence". 5. Gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center". 6. To assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers". 7. Move together. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "collect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In this description, "printing" and "impression" are used interchangeably.The first and second editions of The Hobbit, both British and American, are considered the most collectible and command the highest prices in the collectors' market. These volumes generally were printed in small runs and sold before The Hobbit reached cult status in the 1960s. Hence demand for them now vastly exceeds supply.
Prices of the American edition tend to lag those of the British because they are not considered 'original' but also because of the extraordinary difficulty of identifying many of them. Unlike the British editions, the American editions generally do not state their printing or copyright date. Hence people cannot be sure what they have or might be buying and therefore what it might be worth.
Very roughly, earlier printings are valued more than later. In particular, the first edition, with its very different account of Riddles in the Dark, is in great demand. However, the fifth overall impression, or the first printing of the second edition, seems to be garnering prices as high as the British fourth printing, which was the cheapest and most common of the first edition printings. Later second edition printings are valued much less than first edition printings or the first printing of the second edition, and all command about the same prices, condition being equal.
The presence of the matching dust jacket often doubles the value of any of these printings, particularly if it is in good shape. However, because the second American edition changes its binding color from printing to printing, they gain considerable charm displayed in array without their dust jackets.
The First Edition
Houghton Mifflin Co. of Boston and New York published the first American edition of the Hobbit in spring of 1938 following its September, 1937 debut in the United Kingdom from George Allen & Unwin LTD. For this first edition Houghton Mifflin printed the sheets in the United States, a practice they abandoned in later printings for both The Hobbit and all printings of The Lord of the Rings until the 1960s.
The first American edition of The Hobbit is perhaps the most beautifully designed of any edition. Houghton Mifflin chose to print it in a larger size and on heavier stock than Allen & Unwin's first edition, and they chose to include four color plates of Tolkien's original artwork. Margins are ample and the typesetting well crafted for readability. The tan cloth cover is printed in blue for lettering and red for the bowing hobbit emblem on the front and the dwarf's hood emblem on the spine. Regrettably, however, they chose to print the end-paper maps in red only, instead of the black and red chosen by Allen & Unwin. They also mistakenly put the Wilderland map in front and the Lonely Mountain map in back, the reverse of the description in the text. Chapter VII (Out of the Frying Pan) is incorrectly identified as 'Chapter VI'.
The dust jacket on the first edition is exceedingly rare. It is a medium blue field all around. The front announces the title in white, beneath which appears, in color and framed in red, Tolkien's illustration of Hobbiton. The reverse displays Tolkien's illustration of Smaug on his trove, also in color.
There are two primary 'states' of the first American printing. The earlier state shows on the title page the same bowing hobbit emblem visible on the cover. At some point, however, the boots the hobbit wears in the emblem were acknowledged to conflict with the text's description of a bare-footed hobbit, so the publisher replaced the emblem with the rather less appealing seated flautist. Whether one calls this development a variant state or a second printing is a distinction of taste. The text did not change except to relabel Chapter VII.
This author has heard of but not seen an intermediate state in which the flautist insignia has arrived on the title page but Chapter VII is still misidentified as Chapter VI.
All states of the first edition measure 15.0 x 21.0 cm. They contain 310 numbered pages.
There are no American printings corresponding to the British third and fourth impressions.
The Second Edition
Basics
American (Houghton Mifflin Co) The Hobbit impressions from the 5th through the 15th were bound from sheets printed in Great Britain, corresponding to the George Allen & Unwin LTD printings of the second edition. Unlike the AU printings, the American copies do not state the printing until the 20th in the second edition with the exceptions of the 11th and 12th, which state the full printing history. This makes them very difficult to identify in isolation. The following list of "points" was developed by this author by comparing unknown American printings to known British printings.
The American second editions from the 5th through 15th printings measure 12.7 x 19.0 cm, contain 315 numbered pages, and have end-paper maps printed in black, white, and red.
Dust Jackets
American second edition dustjackets are nearly identical to British, except that Houghton Mifflin is printed at the bottom of the spine instead of George Allen Unwin. The design is basically unchanged from the original 1937 edition of The Hobbit. Dust jackets declare the impression and often may be used to ascertain at least the approximate impression of the book. Sometimes, however, the dust jacket did not come with the book originally, and sometimes dust jackets from one printing were put on books of a neighboring printing.
Collation
The 5th and 6th impression signature marks are at the bottom center:
[B] on page 17, henceforth incrementing one letter every 16 pages.
[*] on page 307.The 7th, 8th, and 9th impression signature marks start with [B] on page 17, henceforth incrementing one letter every 32 pages.
[*] on page 307.Signature marks change on the 10th impression: [A*] at the bottom of the Table of Contents; [B] at bottom left of page 33 etc. These signature marks remain unchanged through the 15th impression.
Paper
Paper weight varies from impression to impression. Generally the earlier impressions are thinner than the later. Measurements exclude the binding and end papers; they start from the half-title page and extend to the last story page. The leaves should be pressed tightly when measuring. Measurements are rounded to the nearest half millimeter.
5th impression: 18.0mm 6th impression: 20.0mm 7th impression: 19.0mm 8th impression: 16.0mm 9th impression: 16.0mm 10th impression: 19.0mm 11th impression: 20.0mm 12th impression: 22.5mm 13th impression: 24.0mm 14th impression: 23.0mm 15th impression: 19.5mm
Binding
- The 5th American impression is bound identically to the British impressions.
- The 6th American impression is bound in light blue-green.
The 6th impression is the first of the American-style covers.- The 7th American impression is bound in a chocolate brown with a slight orange cast.
Some 7th impressions are bound in khaki; all other points identical.- The 8th American impression is bound in teal.
- The 9th American impression is bound in ?.
- The 10th American impression is bound in very light green.
- The 11th American impression is bound in very light green.
- The 12th American impression is bound in khaki with a greenish tint.
- The 13th American impression is bound in slate blue.
- The 14th American impression is bound in a saturated grass green.
- The 15th American impression is bound in ?.
Advertisements
Commencing with the 7th impression, the final page of the story advertises The Lord of the Rings. The distance between the advertisement and the main body of the text varies from impression to impression. Here the distance is measured from the baseline of the last line of the story's text down to the baseline of the first line of the advertisement.
(Note that the 6th impression advertises The Lord of the Rings on the reverse of the half-title page but not on the last page of the text. This distinguishes the 6th impression.)
- The 7th impression baseline is 52 mm down.
- The 8th impression baseline is 53 mm down.
- The 9th impression baseline is 38 mm down.
- The 10th impression baseline is 51.5 mm down.
- The 11th impression baseline is 38 mm down.
- The 12th impression baseline is 38 mm down.
- The 13th impression baseline is 38 mm down.
- The 14th impression baseline is 42 mm down.
- The 15th impression baseline is 15 mm down.
- The 5th impression advertises Farmer Giles of Ham on the reverse of the half-title page.
- The 6th through 13th impressions advertise Farmer Giles of Ham and The Lord of the Rings on the reverse of the half-title page.
- The 14th impression advertises The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Farmer Giles of Ham, and The Lord of the Rings on the reverse of the half-title page.
- The 15th impression advertises The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Lord of the Rings, and Tree and Leaf on the reverse of the half-title page.
Printing Flaws
Starting with the 7th impression, the first "o" on page 22 is broken at 5:00 o'clock.
The 13th impression, on the bottom of page 315, displays an illegible "ab" in "you will learn a lot more about them". The 7th through 12th impressions, on the other hand, are clean. The illegible "ab" persists throughout remaining printings of the second edition.
Later Printings of Second Edition
Houghton Mifflin enlarged the books to 14.0 x 21.0 cm commencing with the 16th printing. At that point they abandoned importing sheets from George Allen and Unwin LTD. These later US printings of the second edition have no correspondence to AU impressions. Houghton Mifflin dropped the red color from the maps and removed the color frontispiece so that no color is left in the book's interior. The 16th and remainding printings of the second edition are bound in light green with lettering in dark blue. Beginning with the 20th impression the volumes state the printing number on the reverse of the title page. The 24th (?) impression is the final impression of the second edition.
By settling on a single binding color and dropping all color from the interior, Houghton Mifflin cheapened the book and killed the charm of the second edition. The later printings are not considered to be as 'collectible' as the earlier printings.
Other Houghton Mifflin Editions
Later Houghton Mifflin editions of The Hobbit are readily identified by their ISBN numbers and copyright page. They are not generally considered 'collectible', although first printings of the 1973 "Collector's Edition" in green simulated leather occasionally go for a bit of a premium. See English-language editions of The Hobbit for a complete list.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Identifying HMCo Editions of The Hobbit."
Synonyms: CollectSynonyms: cod (adj), accumulate (v), amass (v), call for (v), collate (v), compile (v), congregate (v), garner (v), gather (v), gather up (v), hoard (v), pick up (v), pile up (v), pull in (v), pull together (v), take in (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: spread (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquisition | Verb: acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect; (assemble); pick, pickup; glean. |
Assemblage | Verb: assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble. |
Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion. | |
Compendium | Abbreviate; (shorten); condense; (compress); compile; (collect). |
Evidence | Collect evidence, bring together evidence, rake up evidence; experiment. |
Intelligibility | Understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding. |
Judgment | Deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet, ween. |
Learning | Verb: learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning. |
Store | Deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect; lay in store; |
Thought | Take into consideration; take counsel; (be advised); commune with oneself, bethink oneself; collect one's thoughts; revolve in the mind, turn over in the mind, run over in the mind; chew the cud upon, sleep upon; take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow. |
Worship | Prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing; (request); collect, litany, Lord's prayer, paternoster; beadroll; latria, dulia, hyperdulia, vigils; revival; cult; anxious meeting, camp meeting; ebenezer, virginal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I collect spores, molds and fungus (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) My dad used to make us walk down to the park and collect the sticks he was going to beat us with (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck) Collect the whole set. (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk) Psychiatrists collect the rent (The Lathe of Heaven; writing credit: Diane English; Ursula K. Le Guin) There's only one thing left to do. Burn the house down and collect the insurance money (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | So I can collect respect, plus a check (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) You can collect all neglect (She Has Funny Cars; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane) Collect our pay (Slip Slidin' Away; performing artist: PAUL SIMON) I called you collect you didn't accept (SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK; performing artist: Rod Stewart) To collect on his insurance, (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | Save the whales. Collect the whole set. (references; author: unknown) To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube. (references; author: unknown) What day are more collect calls made on than any other day of the year? Father's Day. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Time to Collect (1997) | |
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 | Radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies confirm that this patient's cutaneous t-cell lymph cancer involves the lymph nodes and skin. The antibodies collect in the cancerous lymph nodes of the armpits, neck and groin and a strong outline of the patient's body verifies skin involvement. The liver and spleen are darkened, too, because it is normal for these organs to collect the antibodies. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | During the study, scientists would collect fleas inoculated with Y. pestis bacteria in order to observe modes of vector disease transmission. Credit: CDC. |
 | Collecting fresh water from ice berg Pools of fresh water collect on top of melting ice bergs. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A zodiac boat departing the NATHANIEL B. PALMER to collect ice samples for biological studies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Bell UH-1M N57RF supporting scientific party. Helicopter pilot Budd Christman took time out to collect glass Japanese fishing floats on beach. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | A flume used to collect contaminated drainage at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Chris Doley of the NOAA Restoration Center fishing gillnets to collect larger fish that inhabit near-shore shallow water habitats. The numbers and types of species were measured to compare and determine large species fish use of shallow water habitats at Poplar Island. The nets used had 3 sizes of mesh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Bongo nets deployed by divers to collect marine snow. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Divers are able to collect rock cores from vertical walls on a coral reef. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Figure 34. Universal current measuring device invented by Otto Petterson in 1904. This instrument was intended to measure current and temperature, as well as collect plankton. Left: in operation. Right: after measurement. This instrument was first tested in the Skagerrak and then in the Baltic Sea between 30 and 200 meters water depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Collect" by Megan Brock Commentary: "Yep." | "Bird and the Bee." by Dennis Bale Commentary: "A lorikeet eats palm tree flowers while bees collect the pollen." |
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh | One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few. |
Tori Amos | I have a love for shoes. I collect them. Race cars, paintings; those aren't my thing. I just hang shoes on the wall. They're architecture, you know? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2013 | The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Each Clearing Office shall in so far as it is concerned take steps to collect the fines above provided for, and will be responsible if such fines cannot be collected. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | Does he collect butterflies? |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He endeavoured to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Many years since I used to go there to collect the sand by cartloads, to make sandpaper with, and I have continued to visit it ever since |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Collect a stool specimen. (references) | |
Research is needed on how to collect this information regionally. (references) | ||
The doctor may need three or four passes to collect the needed samples. (references) | ||
Business | Rural areas collect up to 10%. Only 2% of the total amount of waste is recycled. (references) | |
Municipalities will collect 95 percent of solid waste (an increase from about 80 percent). (references) | ||
Thus, credit card issuers can collect a maximum of five percent, compared to the 8.75 percent currently charged. (references) | ||
Children | Morocco | More often parents of rural girls "contract" their daughters to wealthy urban families and collect the salaries for their work as maids. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Homeless children called "palomas" (doves) are frequently at the mercy of adults who collect them and put them to work begging and selling fruit, flowers, and other goods on the street. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Austria | The Federal Office on Sects continued to collect and distribute information on organizations considered sects. (references) |
Economic History | Switzerland | They have considerable control over local issues, and even collect taxes. (references) |
Australia | Local councils are even starting to collect materials that they are unable to sell. (references) | |
Kuwait | Copyright holders are also permitted under Kuwaiti law to collect civil damages from violators. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | In both incidents, the protesters were challenging government plans to collect sales taxes. (references) |
Ghana | After his former wife allegedly hired the soldiers to collect a debt, he was detained for more than 2 weeks. (references) | |
Vietnam | The district police, people's committees, wards, and townships all help collect information for the dossier. (references) | |
Minorities | Netherlands | A central government organization was set up in 1999 to fight racial discrimination and to collect nationwide statistics on incidents of discrimination, but it has yet to work out a uniform system. (references) |
Political Economy | INDONESIA | In 1999, the government introduced a monitoring system to collect information on all foreign exchange transactions, including foreign borrowing. (references) |
JAMAICA | As of September 14, 2000, the Customs Department began to collect a new standards compliance fee of 0.03 percent of CIF from importers on behalf of the Bureau of Standards. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mali | Local governments benefit from central government subsidies, but they also are able to collect local taxes to support their operations. (references) |
Kazakhstan | The law does not require Majilis candidates to collect a certain number of signatures in order to be placed on the ballot; however, Senate candidates must obtain signatures from 10 percent of the members of the local assemblies in their oblasts in order to be placed on the ballot. (references) | |
Ethiopia | According to the SEPDC, some SEPDC supporters were suspended or dismissed from their jobs in retaliation for voting for the opposition, and some teachers in the Southern Region who served as SEPDC election observers were not able to collect their salaries and were denied entry to summer update courses. (references) | |
Trade | Saudi Arabia | Additionally, the customs authorities will collect handling charges. (references) |
France | No consular formalities are required and shipments may be made freight collect. (references) | |
Slovak Rep | The customs authorities collect customs duties and, simultaneously, are administrators of value added tax (VAT) for imports. (references) | |
Travel | Bulgaria | AT&T, MCI and Sprint all have access numbers in Bulgaria for credit card and collect calls. (references) |
Guatemala | Calls can be placed through the hotel operator, or directly with AT&T, MCI, or Sprint calling cards, or collect. (references) | |
Jamaica | Those who wish to bring in items temporarily such as software, exhibit material, etc., are required to identify the items at Customs, pay the required duty and General Consumption Tax (as security) and collect a refundable revenue deposit receipt. (references) | |
Women | Cameroon | When a married man dies, his widow often is unable to collect any inheritance, since she herself is considered part of the man's property. (references) |
Afghanistan | Bus drivers also were required to employ boys under the age of 15 to collect fares from female passengers; neither the drivers nor the fare collectors were to mingle with the passengers. (references) | |
Russia | Hospitals, crisis centers, and members of the medical profession provide assistance to women who have been assaulted; however, to avoid spending long periods of time in court, some doctors are reluctant to ascertain the details of a sexual assault or collect physical evidence. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cambodia | Although all unions collect dues from members, none has been able to operate without outside sources of support. (references) |
Pakistan | In May and June 2000, there were strikes by small and large businessmen throughout the country to protest the Government's efforts to collect taxes. (references) | |
Ghana | In practice child employment is widespread, and young children of school age often perform menial tasks during the day in the market or collect fares on local buses. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dan Rather | There are two questions there. Certainly, I'm available to interview Prime Minister Sharon or Yasser Arafat at any time. And if they happen to be listening or viewing, call me collect, I'll be there in a second. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Such materials, for your information, relative to its affairs in general as the short space of time has permitted me to collect will be laid before you when the subject shall be in a state for your consideration. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | To collect it merely for distribution to the States would seem to be highly impolitic, if not as dangerous as the proposition to retain it in the Treasury. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | As our public and private institutions collect more and more information and as communications and computer technologies advance, we must act to protect the personal privacy of our citizens. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Collect" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 74.96% of the time. "Collect" is used about 2,821 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 74.96% | 2,115 | 4,111 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 24.61% | 694 | 9,593 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.32% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,821 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "collect": call collect ♦ collect alms ♦ collect call ♦ collect in ♦ collect in a dragnet ♦ collect knowledge ♦ collect money ♦ collect on delivery ♦ collect one's thoughts ♦ collect oneself ♦ collect shipment ♦ collect smth. ♦ collect taxes ♦ collect the money ♦ collect together ♦ collect up ♦ freight collect ♦ garbage collect ♦ give a collect call ♦ To collect one's self. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "collect": collect-call. | |
Ending with "collect": Re-collect. | |
Containing "collect": re-collect oneself. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "collect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | versamel (gather, pick, pick up), bymekaarbring (gather, join, pick, pick up, unite). (various references) | |
Albanian | përmbledh (abridge, abstract, brief, compress, condense, precis, recapitulate, sum up, summarize), mblidhem (assemble, bank, build up, contract, convene, cringe, crowd, crowd together, curl, draw, duck, forgather, huddle, mass, meet, mob, pile up, reunite, roll by, roll up, shrink), mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), marr (accede, acquire, assume, bring, catch, claim, contract, draw, get, have, land, make, obtain, occupy, pick up, possess, realize, receive, score, take, take in, take out), koleksionoj, grumbulloj (accumulate, amalgamate, amass, assemble, clamp, compile, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, get together, heap, hoard, mass, pile, pool, rally, stack, unite), bëj koleksion. (various references) | |
Arabic | محولة أجرته على المستلم, لم (gather, round up), قبض مالا (palpate), تجمع (aggregation, assemblage, assemble, concentrate, concourse, congregation, converge, convergence, flock, gather, gathering, get together, group, grouping, huddle, league, mass, muster, organization, pile up, pool, press, rally, reassemble), تراكم (accumulate, accumulation, bank, bulk, collection, cumulation, drift, gathering, inure, pack, pile, piling up, press), تدفع أجرته من قبل, جمع الكتب أو الطوابع, جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), جبى (levy), إستعاد السيطرة, رب (god, raise). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), тълпя се (crowd, crowd together, flock, herd, horde together, mob, swarm, throng, troop, whirl), с наложен платеж, кратка молитва, колекционирам, овладявам се (pull oneself together), правя извод (deduce). (various references) | |
Chinese | 搜集 (gather), 擷 , 攏 (draw near to), 攝 (absorb, assist), 攢 (bring together, hoard), 收藏 (keep), 收集 (Collected, Collecting), 撿 (gather, pick up), 扱 (receive), 萃 (assemble, collection, dense, gather, grassy, thick), 採集 (gather), 珍藏 (collection), 蘊 (bring together, mosses on damp walls), 蔟 (frame for silk worm, nest), 裒 , 逑 (to match), 揫 (gather). (various references) | |
Czech | vyzvednout (draw smb. out, exalt, fetch, stress, withdraw), vybírat (choose, handpick, pick, pick out, take out), usazovat se, shromáždit se (assemble, concentrate on smth., congregate, convene, crowd, flog together, gather, get together, group, rally, troop), sbírat (colect, gather, glean, pick, save), odvážet, hromadit se (cumulate). (various references) | |
Danish | samle (gather, pick up). (various references) | |
Dutch | inzamelen (gather, pick up), innen (cash, gather, pick up, take in), collecteren (gather, pick up). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kolekti (gather, pick up). (various references) | |
Faeroese | savna (gather, pick up). (various references) | |
Farsi | گرداوردن (Amass, Assemble, Compile, Troop), وصول کردن (Cash, Receipt, Receive), جمع کردن (Add, Agglomerate, Aggregate, Callup, Cluster, Constrict, Convene, Eke, Gather, Gross, Immobilize, In, Purse, Reef, Rollup, Total, Tote). (various references) | |
Finnish | kerätä (amass, assemble, gather, pick up). (various references) | |
French | recueillir, rassembler, encaisser, collectionner. (various references) | |
Frisian | sammelje (gather, pick up). (various references) | |
German | sammeln (assemble, compile, gather, gathering, get together, glean, pick, pick up, pile up, rally, save, stack, to collect, to gather, to glean), zusammenfassen (abstract, bracket, bunch together, combine, concentrate, condense, encapsulate, lump, recapitulate, resume, sum, sum up, summarize, to collect, to recapitulate, to summarize, unite), kassieren (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, cashier, confiscate, make money, nab, pull in, quash, remit, take away, take the money, to take the money, walk off with). (various references) | |
Greek | συλλέγω (cluster, compile, gather, pick, raise, rake, roundup). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללקוט (assemble, compile, gather), ללקט (compile, cull, gather, glean, pick), לקבץ (aggregate, assembly, bunch, gather, muster, rally), לאגור (accumulate, amass, gather, hoard, lay up, stash, stock up, store), לאגום, לאצור (accumulate, garner, hoard, store up, treasure), לאסוף (gather, rake, reap, remove, round up, take in, withdraw), לכנוס (assemble, congregate, convene, gather), לגבוב (accumulate, gather), לרכוש (acquire, appropriate, catch hold of, come by, get hold of, obtain, pick up, procure, purchase, secure), לצבור (accumulate, amass, gather, heap up, pile up, rake, stack, stash, store), אסף (collection, compilation, gather). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utánvételezett, rövid ima (ejaculation), rövid alkalmi ima, halmoz (mass, parlay, pile up, pyramid, to hive, to mass, to pile, to pile up, to stack), gyûjt (gather), összeszed (get together, rake, to gather, to muster, to muster up, to pack, to pick up, to rake up, to rally). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengangkuti, memungut (glean, harvest, pick up, quote), membundel (bind), gerombol (assemble). (various references) | |
Italian | raccogliere (collect one's thoughts, crop, gather, harvest, harvests, make a collection of, pick, pick up, pull, raise, rally, reap, recollect, save, scoop, scoop up, sweep up, take in), ritirare (abstract, draw, draw back, evacuate, pick up, recede, retire, retract, seclude, shrink, subside, take, take away, throw again, to withdraw, withdraw), incassare (build in, cash, embed, encase, fill, get, occupy, pack, sink, take). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 集約 (intensive, summarize), コルレス契約 (cholera, cholesterol, collect call, collection, collectivism, collectomania, collector, colloid, correction, correspondence, correspondent, correspondent arrangement). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうやく (intensive, summarize), コレクト . (various references) | |
Korean | 집합하십시요. (various references) | |
Malay | mengumpulkan (gather, pick up), kumpulkan (gather, pick up). (various references) | |
Manx | co-phadjer. (various references) | |
Maya | maach (to collect). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kolektá (gather, pick up). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ollectcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | colher (berry, crop, drag out, garner, gather, gather a crop, gather a harvest, harvest, pick, pick off, pick up, pluck, pull, reap, reap a harvest, spoon, tear off). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | cobram. (various references) | |
Romanian | culege (compose, crop, cull, gather, glean, mow, pick, pick up, pluck, reap, set up, take up), colecta (bag, gather, pick up), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop). (various references) | |
Russian | собирать (amass, assemble, build up, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, erect, gather, get together, levy, make up, pick, pick up, raise, scoop in, scoop up). (various references) | |
Scottish | cruinnich (assemble, convene), truis (tear, truss up : truis! word by which dogs), teagair (cover, protect, shelter, supply). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ubrati (pick, reap), skupljati (gather, glean, mass), skupiti (aggregate, amass, assemble, congregate, constrict, contract, gather, lay up, levy, pucker, raise, rake, shrink, treasure), sakupiti (assemble, gather, pick), sabrati (total, totalize), prikupiti (brace, gather in, marshal, rally, reach, summon, whip up), pribrati (settle), nagomilati (accumulate, aggregate, amass, garner, heap, hill, hoard, lay up, pile, pile up, stock, stock up, stockpile). (various references) | |
Shona | -kokorodza (to collect). (various references) | |
Spanish | recoger (bring in, catch, fold, furl, garner, gather, gather in, gather up, get, get in, glean, harvest, lay hold of, lift, pick, pick up, rake in, reap, reclaim, repossession, scavenge, scoop up, secure, take, take in, take up), coleccionar (go in for, lot, save), cobrar (call in, carry off, cash, charge, draw, gain, get, pull in, put on, receive, regain, retrieve, take up). (various references) | |
Sranan | dyunta (gather, pick up). (various references) | |
Swedish | samla (assemble, gather, gathers, get together, glean, hive, muster, pick up, rally, store up, whip up), insamla, inkassera (cash), indriva, ansamla (gather). (various references) | |
Turkish | toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ykjamlamak, яygnamak (concentrate, gather), ьяюьrmek (gather), зцplemek (gather, pick up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупчуватися (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, congest, conglomerate, crowd, flock, huddle, throng), коротка молитва, колекціонувати, зосереджуватися (centralize, concentrate), заволодівати (occupy, pot, sequester), збирати (agglomerate, amass, assemble, bag, canvass, carry, compile, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, gather, gather in, levy, make up, muster, pick, pick in, summon, win). (various references) | |
Welsh | cynnull (assemble, gather), crynhoi (gather together), cronni (accumulate, amass, dam, hoard), casglu (accumulate, amass, gather, infer), hel (chase, drive, gather). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gu . . . gur. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | circumlegentes, collecta, collectae, collectam, collecti, collectis, collecto, collectos, collectum, collectus, collegerimus, collegeris, collegerunt, collegi, collegissent, collegisset, collegisti, collegit, colleximus, collexistis, colligam, colligant, colligas, colligat, colligatis, colligatur, colligebant, colligebat, colligendas, colligendi, colligendum, colligens, colligent, colligentem, colligentes, colligentur, colligere, colligerent, colligeret, colligeris, colliges, colligesque, colliget, colligetur, colligimus, colligit, colligite, colligitur, colligo, colligunt, colliguntur, compello, conducat, conducebant, conducebat, conducentes, conducere, conducerent, conducta, conducto, conductum, conduxerint, conduxerunt, conduxeruntque, conduxi, conduxissent, conduxit, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, conferebant, conferens, conferentes, conferetis, conferetur, conferre, conferretur, confers, confertis, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, conlata, conligare, conquirentes, conquirere, conquirerent, construatur, constructa, constructum, construens, construxerunt, construximus, construxitque, contulerunt, contuli, contulit, lecta, lectae, lectis, lecto, lectum, lecturi, lectus, legant, legatur, lege, legebant, legebantur, legebat, legebatur, legens, legentem, legentes, legentibus, legentium, legere, legeris, legerit, legerunt, leges, legesque, leget, legetque, legi, legis, legissent, legisset, legisti, legistis, legit, legite, legitque, legitur, lego, seceleg. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | coillir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 12, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai nun sunagage to kataloipon tou laou kai parembale epi thn polin kai prokatalabou authn ina mh prokatalabwmai egw thn polin kai klhqh to onoma mou ep' authn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nunc igitur congrega reliquam partem populi et obside civitatem et cape eam ne cum a me vastata fuerit urbs nomini meo adscribatur victoria |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Now thanne gadre the tother parti of the puple, and bisege the citee, and tak it, lest whanne the citee were wastid of me, to my name the victorie be ascriued. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Now therefore collect the rest of the people, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 12, Verse 28 |
| Cebuano | Busa karon tiguma ang uban sa katawohan, ug magpahaluna alang sa gubat atbang sa ciudad, ug kuhaa kana; tingali unya makuha ko ang ciudad, ug kini pagatawgon sunod sa akong ngalan. |
| Chinese | 現 在 你 要 聚 集 其 餘 的 軍 兵 來 、 安 營 圍 攻 這 城 ． 恐 怕 我 取 了 這 城 、 人 就 以 我 的 名 叫 這 城 。 |
| Croatian | Sada ti saberi ostalu vojsku, opkoli grad i osvoji ga, da ne bih ja osvojio grada i dao mu svoje ime." |
| Danish | kald nu Resten af Hæren sammen, så du kan belejre Byen og indtage den, for at det ikke skal blive mig, der indtager den og får mit Navn udråbt over den!" |
| Dutch | Zo verzamel gij nu het overige des volks, en beleger de stad, en neem ze in; opdat niet, zo ik de stad zou innemen, mijn naam over haar uitgeroepen worde. |
| Finnish | Niin kokoa nyt jäljellä oleva väki ja asetu leiriin kaupungin edustalle ja valloita se, etten minä sitä valloittaisi ja ottaisi sitä nimiini." |
| French | rassemble maintenant le reste du peuple, campe contre la ville, et prends-la, de peur que je ne la prenne moi-même et que la gloire ne m`en soit attribuée. |
| German | So nimm nun zuhauf das übrige Volk und belagere die Stadt und gewinne sie, auf daß ich sie nicht gewinne und ich den Namen davon habe. |
| Haitian Creole | Koulye a, sanble tout rès lame a, mache sou lavil la, vin pran li. Mwen pa ta vle se mwen menm ki pran lavil la lèfini pou tout lwanj lan vin pou mwen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sekarang, sudilah Baginda mengumpulkan sisa tentara kita, lalu memimpin serangan untuk menaklukkan kota itu. Dengan demikian nanti tidak dikatakan orang bahwa aku yang merebut kota itu." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sekarang hendaklah kiranya tuanku menghimpunkan segala rakyat yang lagi tinggal itu, lalu mengepung negeri itu dan mengalahkan dia, asal jangan patik mengalahkan negeri itu dan nama patikpun termasyhurlah olehnya. |
| Italian | Ora raduna il resto del popolo, accàmpati contro la città e prendila, altrimenti se la prendo io, porterebbe il mio nome». |
| Maori | Na, tena, huihuia te nuinga o te iwi ki te whakapae i te pa, kia riro ai i a koe: kei riro mai te pa i ahau, a noku te ingoa e huaina ki reira. |
| Norwegian | Samle nu du resten av folket og leir dig mot byen og innta den, så det ikke blir jeg som inntar byen, og mitt navn blir nevnt over den*! # <* d.e. byen kalles den av mig inntatte.> |
| Portuguese | Ajunta, pois, agora o resto do povo, acampa contra a cidade e toma-a, para que eu não a tome e seja o meu nome aclamado sobre ela. |
| Rumanian | strknge acum cealaltq parte a poporului, tqbqrqwte kmpotriva cetqyii, wi ia -o, ca sq n`o iau eu wi sq vinq asupra mea cinstea.`` |
| Russian | ФЕРЕТШ УПВЕТЙ ПУФБМШОПК ОБТПД Й РПДУФХРЙ Л ЗПТПДХ Й ЧПЪШНЙ ЕЗП; ЙВП, ЕУМЙ С ЧПЪШНХ ЕЗП, ФП НПЕ ЙНС ВХДЕФ ОБТЕЮЕОП ЕНХ. |
| Swedish | Så församla du nu det övriga folket och belägra staden och intag den, så att det icke bliver jag som intager staden och får bära namnet därför." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "collect": collectable, collectables, collectanea, collected, collectedly, collectedness, collectednesses, collectible, collectibles, collecting, collection, collections, collective, collectively, collectives, collectivise, collectivised, collectivises, collectivising, collectivism, collectivisms, collectivist, collectivistic, collectivistically, collectivists, collectivities, collectivity, collectivization, collectivizations, collectivize, collectivized, collectivizes, collectivizing, collector, collectors, collectorship, collectorships, collects. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "collect": recollect. (additional references) | |
Words containing "collect": misrecollection, misrecollections, noncollector, noncollectors, recollected, recollecting, recollection, recollections, recollects, subcollection, subcollections, uncollected, uncollectible, uncollectibles. (additional references) | |
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"Collect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caldecot, clect, Coillach, colec, colect, Colescott, collact, Collco, Collcutt, collec, collecta, collecte, collett, collick, cullest, Kosleck, Ollett, sollect. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "collect" (pronounced kule"kt) |
| 6 | k u l e" k t | recollect. |
| 5 | -u l e" k t | elect, reelect, select. |
| 4 | -l e" k t | deflect, inflect, neglect, reflect. |
| 3 | -e" k t | affect, bedecked, checked, confect, connect, correct, decked, deject, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, disrespect, dissect, effect, eject, erect, expect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, necked, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, reconnect, redirect, reinspect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, subject, suspect, trekked, unchecked, wecht, wrecked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-l-l-o-t" | |
-1 letter: collet. | |
-2 letters: cello. | |
-3 letters: cell, celt, clot, cole, colt, cote, tell, tole, toll. | |
-4 letters: cel, col, cot, ell, let, lot, ole, tel, toe. | |
-5 letters: el, et, lo, oe, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-l-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: collects. | |
+2 letters: collected, collector, collocate, recollect. | |
+3 letters: collecting, collection, collective, collectors, collocated, collocates, colorectal, cyclostyle, flocculate, flocculent, recollects. | |
+4 letters: collectable, collectanea, collectedly, collectible, collections, collectives, cyclostyled, cyclostyles, ectopically, flocculated, flocculates, recollected, uncollected. | |
+5 letters: blastocoelic, cancellation, cellulolytic, collectables, collectibles, collectively, collectivise, collectivism, collectivist, collectivity, collectivize, complacently, conceptually, cosmetically, electrolytic, noncollector, occidentally, recollecting, recollection, tectonically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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