The name "moraine" has been given to the earth rubbish a glacier collects and finally dumps.
Rain water makes its way into the earth's crust, absorbs mineral substances, and collects in springs which feed brooks and rivers and lakes.
As a collecting office, the Inland Revenue, Montreal, is second only to the Customs, and collects nearly one-half of all the excise revenue of Canada.
If much water collects in the hole, widen it, in the direction of the outlet drain, sufficiently to give room for baling out the water.
The Outlet* should evidently be placed at the present point of exit of the brook which runs from the springs, collects the water of the open ditches, and spreads over the flat in the southwest corner of the tract, converting it into a swamp.
If the water of heavy rains stands for some time on the surface, or if water collects in the furrow while plowing, draining is necessary to bring the land to its full fertility.
The gratings over the outlets of silt-basins which open at the surface of the ground, are sometimes, during the first year of the drainage, obstructed by a fungoid growth which collects on the cross bars.
Forming more rapidly than it evaporates it collects in drops on the surface.
The lacrymal canals are at times blocked by inflammation of the nasal duct, and the fluid collects in the corners of the eyelids and overflows down the cheeks, producing much inconvenience.
When Amru sits on this tree, the seeds fall down, and Chamru carries them away where Tistrya collects the water, who then rains down the seed with the water to the earth.
Meanwhile the screw churns away at the liquid mud, and a crowd collects on the causeway above, and yet we remain fast.
His position is unique, for Sir Robert collects and has absolute control over all the levies on foreign goods; and a large part of the finances of China pass through his hands.
It collects the results of the spent day into consciousness, lays down the honey of quiet thought, or the bitter-sweet honey of the gathered flower.
The soul collects itself into pure silence and isolation--perhaps after much pain.
Beccari,[IG] collectsin front of its bower flowers and fruits of bright and varied colours.
Many fancy, though incorrectly, that the word means one who collects flowers.
The nucleus subsequently divides repeatedly, until there are eight nuclei, about which the protoplasm collects to form as many oval masses, each of which develops a wall and becomes a spore (Figs.
Going down amongst the audience, the performer collects quantities of coins from the heads and persons of the audience.
When the performer afterwards collects all four articles into his hands, it will never occur to the company that so much bulk could have been deliberately palmed by him in their very midst.
Close at hand is the office of the intelligence branch, which collects and communicates information about the enemy from every source it can tap.
Here it collects while the ventricle below is emptying itself, then pours down between the valve flaps through the opening to the left ventricle.
Wherever the owner may be, if the corporation is chartered within the State the Commonwealth collects the tax on the shares.
Wherever the corporation may be, if the owner is within the State the Commonwealth also collects the tax (in theory of law at least).
Black ash contains less than half its weight of soda, so that for every ton of soda produced there is from a ton and a half to two tons of an insoluble residue whichcollects in the lixiviating and settling tanks.
Sulphuric acid is actually produced in the chambers, and collects on the floors, from which it is drawn off from time to time.
The acid which collects at the bottom of the tower is known as nitrated vitriol.
The trustee collects all this property and tries to reduce it to cash, as fast as he can, and while this is going on, creditors will also be proving their claims.
If a man collects more than he earns, he collectswhat somebody else has earned, and we call it stealing if a man takes that which belongs to another.
They scoop out the fish and let them fall into a box, from which the fisherman collects them twice a day.
Sevier river, flowing northwardly to the lake of the same name, collects its principal waters from this section of the Wah-satch chain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
